John Lee Hooker, king of the Delta blues boogie, was on my bucket list of blues performers to photograph. The opportunity came at the Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival in 1999. He sat alone on stage and mesmerized the crowd.
He passed away two years later in 2001. Along with Hooker, I was lucky enough to capture many original blues legends at the end of their careers. Most of them were gone within a ten-year time period.
John Lee Hooker, Chesapeake Bay Blues Festival, Annapolis, MD., 1999