Chords for John Lee Hooker - Interview - 8/17/1991 - Newport Jazz Festival (Official)
Tempo:
110.5 bpm
Chords used:
Bb
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C
Gb
Eb
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
Alright, [G] this is Mr.
[B] Hooker's interview and [Gb] Mr.
Hooker, would you answer right into the [F] lens please?
You've been playing and [G] recording for over 40 years.
Yeah, around that.
What are some [C] of the musicians who have influenced you?
[Eb] Well, my stepfather, I learned from him [Bb]
when I was about 12 or 13 years old.
[Eb]
[Bb] And [Cm] so many have influenced me.
People like T-Bone [D] Walkon, who is gone, [Ebm]
[G] Muddy Waters, [C] so [C] a bunch of them.
[G] What's the big difference between Newport and Mississippi?
[D] The big difference?
Well, [Bm]
they have [Bb]
concerts down there in Greenwood, Mississippi, but [G] nothing can take [Gm] the place of Newport.
[G] It's got a lot of memories.
I used to [Bb] come here, I mean, Brown and McGee and Sunny Terry and Muddy Water.
[Eb] This place will never [Gm] [Bb] be another place like [Bb] Newport.
It has some great concerts, but [E] you know how [Db] Newport, Rhode Island, it [G] rings a [D] bell.
How [Bb] do you explain the fact that blues has influenced popular music all over the world?
You can't [Gb] explain it.
You just have to say [Eb] it.
It's been here [Gb] all the time.
People are just now beginning to find out what the roots and the meanings of the real, true identity [C] of the music [G] is.
Rock and roll is the same thing that [Gb] comes from the blues.
Everything comes from the blues.
The blues was here when the world was born.
Where do you think the blues will be in the year 2000?
It ain't going to never die.
It'll go maybe higher.
It may go lower, but it's going to come back up.
Is this your first appearance in Newport?
Oh, no.
[Db] About 10 or 15 times.
[Gb] You remember the old Newport days, Tom O'Dillon [Bb] or Brown and McGee and Sunny Terry?
I used to be here.
Where you was?
This [Gbm] is for those people that [Bb] don't know.
Are you the healer?
Can you tell us about it?
[G] I don't heal, but what I sing [Db] heals.
Blues is [G] a healer.
Our body is not a [E] healer, but what comes out of this body [Gm] and [E] the lyrics heal people.
It makes them feel good.
The meaning of the lyrics, you [Em] have to have lyrics that make [B] sense.
People can relate [E] to them.
That's what I try to do.
I do a pretty good job at it.
I just wanted two more questions.
What does playing in Newport mean to [E] you?
A lot.
I've been here so much.
I was here [Eb] last year.
Do you remember I was here last year?
[Gb]
[Bb] Just one final question, if I may.
There's [C] much discussion about the fusion movement into jazz, the electronic movement.
[Eb] [Bb] Many of the people like Jerry Mulligan, George Grover Washington, they feel music comes from the soul and the electronics [C] are for the birds.
How do you feel about it?
Electronic is [Gm] not for the birds.
The music comes from your heart, [Bb] the way you feel.
Then you take the electronics to bring [C] out your feeling.
Nowadays you've got to have electronics because people nowadays, they dance, it's a different generation.
It ain't like it was [Ebm] years ago.
You could have folk songs, play coffee houses.
The [Gb] coffee houses are gone now.
You [Bb] could sit down with a guitar and just play something.
But now that ain't no more.
Bars, smoky bars, people dancing.
[Bb] You've got to be heard.
So you've got to have electricity to bring that out.
As I do and everybody else does.
Just in closing, what's in the future for you, Mr.
[C] Hurger?
I don't know.
I'll face that question when it, I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.
I'll probably retire next year but not complete.
I always will do some of this.
Loving people is [B] my greatest hobby.
And what's your advice?
Okay, thanks very much.
That's it.
[B] Hooker's interview and [Gb] Mr.
Hooker, would you answer right into the [F] lens please?
You've been playing and [G] recording for over 40 years.
Yeah, around that.
What are some [C] of the musicians who have influenced you?
[Eb] Well, my stepfather, I learned from him [Bb]
when I was about 12 or 13 years old.
[Eb]
[Bb] And [Cm] so many have influenced me.
People like T-Bone [D] Walkon, who is gone, [Ebm]
[G] Muddy Waters, [C] so [C] a bunch of them.
[G] What's the big difference between Newport and Mississippi?
[D] The big difference?
Well, [Bm]
they have [Bb]
concerts down there in Greenwood, Mississippi, but [G] nothing can take [Gm] the place of Newport.
[G] It's got a lot of memories.
I used to [Bb] come here, I mean, Brown and McGee and Sunny Terry and Muddy Water.
[Eb] This place will never [Gm] [Bb] be another place like [Bb] Newport.
It has some great concerts, but [E] you know how [Db] Newport, Rhode Island, it [G] rings a [D] bell.
How [Bb] do you explain the fact that blues has influenced popular music all over the world?
You can't [Gb] explain it.
You just have to say [Eb] it.
It's been here [Gb] all the time.
People are just now beginning to find out what the roots and the meanings of the real, true identity [C] of the music [G] is.
Rock and roll is the same thing that [Gb] comes from the blues.
Everything comes from the blues.
The blues was here when the world was born.
Where do you think the blues will be in the year 2000?
It ain't going to never die.
It'll go maybe higher.
It may go lower, but it's going to come back up.
Is this your first appearance in Newport?
Oh, no.
[Db] About 10 or 15 times.
[Gb] You remember the old Newport days, Tom O'Dillon [Bb] or Brown and McGee and Sunny Terry?
I used to be here.
Where you was?
This [Gbm] is for those people that [Bb] don't know.
Are you the healer?
Can you tell us about it?
[G] I don't heal, but what I sing [Db] heals.
Blues is [G] a healer.
Our body is not a [E] healer, but what comes out of this body [Gm] and [E] the lyrics heal people.
It makes them feel good.
The meaning of the lyrics, you [Em] have to have lyrics that make [B] sense.
People can relate [E] to them.
That's what I try to do.
I do a pretty good job at it.
I just wanted two more questions.
What does playing in Newport mean to [E] you?
A lot.
I've been here so much.
I was here [Eb] last year.
Do you remember I was here last year?
[Gb]
[Bb] Just one final question, if I may.
There's [C] much discussion about the fusion movement into jazz, the electronic movement.
[Eb] [Bb] Many of the people like Jerry Mulligan, George Grover Washington, they feel music comes from the soul and the electronics [C] are for the birds.
How do you feel about it?
Electronic is [Gm] not for the birds.
The music comes from your heart, [Bb] the way you feel.
Then you take the electronics to bring [C] out your feeling.
Nowadays you've got to have electronics because people nowadays, they dance, it's a different generation.
It ain't like it was [Ebm] years ago.
You could have folk songs, play coffee houses.
The [Gb] coffee houses are gone now.
You [Bb] could sit down with a guitar and just play something.
But now that ain't no more.
Bars, smoky bars, people dancing.
[Bb] You've got to be heard.
So you've got to have electricity to bring that out.
As I do and everybody else does.
Just in closing, what's in the future for you, Mr.
[C] Hurger?
I don't know.
I'll face that question when it, I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.
I'll probably retire next year but not complete.
I always will do some of this.
Loving people is [B] my greatest hobby.
And what's your advice?
Okay, thanks very much.
That's it.
Key:
Bb
G
C
Gb
Eb
Bb
G
C
_ Alright, [G] this is Mr.
[B] Hooker's interview and [Gb] Mr.
Hooker, would you answer right into the [F] lens please?
You've been playing and [G] recording for over 40 years.
Yeah, around that.
What are some [C] of the musicians who have influenced you?
[Eb] _ Well, my stepfather, I learned from him [Bb]
when I was about 12 or 13 years old.
[Eb] _ _
[Bb] And [Cm] so many have influenced me.
People like T-Bone [D] Walkon, who is gone, _ _ [Ebm] _
[G] Muddy Waters, _ [C] _ so [C] a bunch of them. _
[G] _ What's the big difference between Newport and Mississippi? _
[D] The big difference?
_ Well, [Bm] _ _
they have [Bb] _ _ _ _
concerts down there in Greenwood, Mississippi, but _ [G] nothing can take [Gm] the place of Newport.
[G] _ It's got a lot of memories.
I used to [Bb] come here, I mean, Brown and McGee and Sunny Terry and Muddy Water.
_ [Eb] This place will never [Gm] _ [Bb] be _ another place like [Bb] Newport.
It has some great concerts, but [E] you know how [Db] Newport, Rhode Island, it _ [G] rings a [D] bell.
How [Bb] do you explain the fact that blues has influenced popular music all over the world?
You can't [Gb] explain it.
You just have to say [Eb] it.
It's been here [Gb] all the time.
_ People are just now beginning to find out what the roots and the meanings of the real, true identity [C] of the music [G] is.
Rock and roll is the same thing that [Gb] comes from the blues.
Everything comes from the blues.
_ The blues was here when the world was born.
_ _ _ Where do you think the blues will be in the year 2000?
It ain't going to never die.
It'll go maybe higher.
It may go lower, but it's going to come back up. _ _
Is this your first appearance in Newport?
Oh, no. _
_ [Db] About 10 or 15 times.
[Gb] You remember the old Newport days, Tom _ _ O'Dillon [Bb] or Brown and McGee and Sunny Terry?
I used to be here. _
Where you was?
_ _ This [Gbm] is for those people that [Bb] don't know.
Are you the healer?
Can you tell us about it? _
[G] _ I don't heal, but what I sing [Db] heals. _ _
Blues is [G] a healer.
_ _ Our body is not a [E] healer, but what comes out of this body [Gm] and [E] the lyrics _ heal people.
It makes them feel good. _ _
The meaning of the lyrics, you [Em] have to have lyrics that make [B] sense.
People can relate [E] to them.
That's what I try to do.
I do a pretty good job at it.
I just wanted two more questions.
What does playing in Newport mean to [E] you?
A lot.
_ I've been here so much.
I was here [Eb] last year.
Do you remember I was here last year?
[Gb] _ _
[Bb] _ Just one final question, if I may.
There's [C] much discussion about the fusion movement into jazz, the electronic movement.
[Eb] _ [Bb] Many of the people like Jerry Mulligan, George Grover Washington, they feel music comes from the soul and the electronics [C] are for the birds.
How do you feel about it?
Electronic is [Gm] not for the birds.
_ The music comes from your heart, [Bb] the way you feel.
Then you take the electronics to bring [C] out your feeling. _
_ _ _ Nowadays you've got to have electronics because _ people nowadays, they dance, _ it's a different generation.
It ain't like it was [Ebm] years ago.
You could have folk songs, play coffee houses.
The [Gb] coffee houses are gone now.
You [Bb] could sit down with a guitar and just play something.
But now that ain't no more. _
Bars, smoky bars, people dancing.
[Bb] You've got to be heard.
So you've got to have electricity to bring that out. _ _
As I do and everybody else does.
Just in closing, what's in the future for you, Mr.
[C] Hurger?
I don't know.
I'll face that question when it, I'll cross that bridge when I get to it. _ _ _
I'll probably retire next year but not complete.
I always will do some of this.
_ _ _ Loving people is [B] my greatest hobby.
And what's your advice?
Okay, thanks very much.
That's it.
[B] Hooker's interview and [Gb] Mr.
Hooker, would you answer right into the [F] lens please?
You've been playing and [G] recording for over 40 years.
Yeah, around that.
What are some [C] of the musicians who have influenced you?
[Eb] _ Well, my stepfather, I learned from him [Bb]
when I was about 12 or 13 years old.
[Eb] _ _
[Bb] And [Cm] so many have influenced me.
People like T-Bone [D] Walkon, who is gone, _ _ [Ebm] _
[G] Muddy Waters, _ [C] _ so [C] a bunch of them. _
[G] _ What's the big difference between Newport and Mississippi? _
[D] The big difference?
_ Well, [Bm] _ _
they have [Bb] _ _ _ _
concerts down there in Greenwood, Mississippi, but _ [G] nothing can take [Gm] the place of Newport.
[G] _ It's got a lot of memories.
I used to [Bb] come here, I mean, Brown and McGee and Sunny Terry and Muddy Water.
_ [Eb] This place will never [Gm] _ [Bb] be _ another place like [Bb] Newport.
It has some great concerts, but [E] you know how [Db] Newport, Rhode Island, it _ [G] rings a [D] bell.
How [Bb] do you explain the fact that blues has influenced popular music all over the world?
You can't [Gb] explain it.
You just have to say [Eb] it.
It's been here [Gb] all the time.
_ People are just now beginning to find out what the roots and the meanings of the real, true identity [C] of the music [G] is.
Rock and roll is the same thing that [Gb] comes from the blues.
Everything comes from the blues.
_ The blues was here when the world was born.
_ _ _ Where do you think the blues will be in the year 2000?
It ain't going to never die.
It'll go maybe higher.
It may go lower, but it's going to come back up. _ _
Is this your first appearance in Newport?
Oh, no. _
_ [Db] About 10 or 15 times.
[Gb] You remember the old Newport days, Tom _ _ O'Dillon [Bb] or Brown and McGee and Sunny Terry?
I used to be here. _
Where you was?
_ _ This [Gbm] is for those people that [Bb] don't know.
Are you the healer?
Can you tell us about it? _
[G] _ I don't heal, but what I sing [Db] heals. _ _
Blues is [G] a healer.
_ _ Our body is not a [E] healer, but what comes out of this body [Gm] and [E] the lyrics _ heal people.
It makes them feel good. _ _
The meaning of the lyrics, you [Em] have to have lyrics that make [B] sense.
People can relate [E] to them.
That's what I try to do.
I do a pretty good job at it.
I just wanted two more questions.
What does playing in Newport mean to [E] you?
A lot.
_ I've been here so much.
I was here [Eb] last year.
Do you remember I was here last year?
[Gb] _ _
[Bb] _ Just one final question, if I may.
There's [C] much discussion about the fusion movement into jazz, the electronic movement.
[Eb] _ [Bb] Many of the people like Jerry Mulligan, George Grover Washington, they feel music comes from the soul and the electronics [C] are for the birds.
How do you feel about it?
Electronic is [Gm] not for the birds.
_ The music comes from your heart, [Bb] the way you feel.
Then you take the electronics to bring [C] out your feeling. _
_ _ _ Nowadays you've got to have electronics because _ people nowadays, they dance, _ it's a different generation.
It ain't like it was [Ebm] years ago.
You could have folk songs, play coffee houses.
The [Gb] coffee houses are gone now.
You [Bb] could sit down with a guitar and just play something.
But now that ain't no more. _
Bars, smoky bars, people dancing.
[Bb] You've got to be heard.
So you've got to have electricity to bring that out. _ _
As I do and everybody else does.
Just in closing, what's in the future for you, Mr.
[C] Hurger?
I don't know.
I'll face that question when it, I'll cross that bridge when I get to it. _ _ _
I'll probably retire next year but not complete.
I always will do some of this.
_ _ _ Loving people is [B] my greatest hobby.
And what's your advice?
Okay, thanks very much.
That's it.