Freelance Journalist. Author of Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix and the Post-War Rock 'n' Roll Revolution and Boogie Man: The Adventures of John Lee Hooker in the American Twentieth Century.
With John Lee Hooker's death in June 2001 the world lost one of the last great Mississippi Delta bluesmen. Acclaimed writer Charles Schaar Murray's Boogie Man is the authorized and authoritative biography of this musician whose extraordinary career spanned over fifty years and included over one-hundred albums and five Grammy Awards. Murray was given unparalleled access to Hooker, and lets him tell his own story in his own words, from life in the Deep South to San Francisco, from the 1948...
'Mouthwatering stuff for any serious Jimi Henrix fan . . . Murray is certainly the first writer to fully portray the ways in which Hendrix shaped the future in which we now...