John Lee Hooker: The Voodoo Guru
Charles Shaar Murray, Q, February 1990
ON 74TH & BROADWAY, the Gotham fog freezes your lungs with every breath, but inside the Beacon Theatre, Van Morrison has just spent something under 90 minutes inducing a fair facsimile of total audience meltdown.
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