Blues Hall of Fame and Museum

John Lee Hooker received one of the blues world's major career honors after nearly five decades of recording.

On November 7, 1996, the Blues Foundation presented Hooker with its Lifetime Achievement Award at B.B. King's Blues Club in Los Angeles.

By then, his hypnotic boogie had produced classics including Boogie Chillin', Crawlin' King Snake, and Boom Boom, while influencing generations of blues and rock musicians worldwide.

All right, Blues fans, if you want to know more about these stories or other things that happened this week in the Blues, then head over to BigTrainBlues.com and explore the archives.

This week on Bill Street Caravan, we have Memphis' hometown favorites, Lucero.

Grammy-nominated blues man Guy Davis will be with us to deliver an installment of the Blues Hall of Fame, an exploration of the lives of the pioneers and innovators enshrined in the Blues Hall of Fame here in Memphis, Tennessee, brought to you by the Blues Foundation.

That's all coming up right now on Bill Street Caravan.

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Thanks for listening to the Blues Hall of Fame podcast, brought to you by the Blues Foundation.

The Blues Hall of Fame podcast is produced by Beale Street Caravan for the Blues Foundation, written by Preston Lauterbach and voiced by Guy Davis.

I was poking through the annals of my mind last week, looking for a memory that might bring some inspiration for this week's show, and I got to thinking about the International Blues Challenge that's coming up in Memphis in January.

It's been run by the Blues Foundation since the '80s, and participating in the competition has been of great assistance to many wonderful musicians over the years, many of whom have gone on to create substantial, successful careers as recording and touring artists.

And with that bubbling away in the back of my mind while flipping CDs in the Blues With A Feeling record library on Saturday evening, I came across Jeff Acherson's third solo album, Mystery Train.

Jeff's an incredible guitar player, singer, and songwriter based here in Australia in Melbourne, who has, since releasing that record, gone on to release, I think, at least another 25.