Word: lee
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Sure, I could know the history of the blues. I could tell you that it grew out of sharecroppers' songs in the Mississippi Delta, and that the patron saint of those gritty Delta blues is guitar virtuoso John Lee Hooker. I could tell you how the blues followed the sharecroppers as they looked for jobs up North, first in Memphis, where the blues would fuse with country music to create rock and roll, and then up to Chicago, where it would settle into a pulsing rhythm and produce the likes of Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf...
...know about the troubles of sharecroppers or migrant workers? The lyrics of most blues songs read like a litany of unfaithful lovers, spiteful landlords and unsympathetic bosses. The song titles alone are enough to fill a therapist's appointment book: "My Baby Don't Love Me" by John Lee Hooker, "Please Send Me Someone to Love" by Luther Allison, "Born Under a Bad Sign" by Albert King. Whatever problems I faced in the cookie-cutter world of middle class New Jersey seemed to pale in comparison to the stuff of "the blues...
...Like Lee Perry, King Tubby...
Master Yon G. Lee leads his class through an exercise, his sweeping arm and hand motions and gliding steps guiding the rest of the group. The motions, graceful and light, make the musky room at the Malkin Athletic Center (MAC) seem like the stage for a slow-motion modern dance...
...Lee says many of his students come to the Tai Chi class for a relaxing break from work. The slow movement calms them after a stressful...