John Lee Hooker Jr., the son of blues legend John Lee Hooker, grew up immersed in music but struggled with drug addiction and crime for decades, leading to multiple stints in prison, including Soledad, Santa Rita and San Quentin. Despite surviving shootings and stabbings, he eventually turned his life around, becoming a successful blues artist. His first album, Blues with a Vengeance , was released in 2004, nominated for a Grammy Award, and won the W. C. Handy Award for Debut Artist. His third album, All Odds Against Me , released in 2008, also received a Grammy nomination. In 2019, he fully embraced his faith, becoming an ordained minister who now preaches and performs gospel music in churches and prisons across the U.S. and Germany. Today we talk to John Lee about his new book “From The Shadows of the Blues: My Story Of Music, Addiction, and Redemption. His story is one of resilience, saving, being saved and the transformative power of faith and music. This is Full Circle.
