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A powerful memoir of redemption from the son of blues legend John Lee Hooker. As a teenager, junior was featured attraction at his father's shows, but a broken childhood and drug addiction led to decades in and out of prisons. Emerging sober and finding the Lord, he launched a successful career as a Grammy-nominated artist and became a minister.

Reverend John Lee Hooker Jr., born in Detroit, Michigan, is the son of the blues legend John Lee Hooker and, as a teenager, toured with his dad as the featured attraction. He had a successful career as a blues artist, receiving two Grammy nominations and the Bobby "Blue" Bland Lifetime Achievement Award. Now an ordained minister, Reverend John Lee Hooker Jr. testifies, preaches, and performs gospel music in prisons. Visit johnleehookerjr.com.

Julia Simon is a Professor at the University of California, Davis and author of Debt and Redemption in the Blues: The Call for Justice, The Inconvenient Lonnie Johnson: Blues, Race, Identity, and Time in the Blues.