Īccording to Hooker, he wrote the song during an extended engagement at the Apex Bar in Detroit. The song uses "a stop-time hook that opens up for one of the genre's most memorable guitar riffs" and incorporates a middle instrumental section Hooker-style boogie. It has been described as "about the tightest musical structure of any Hooker composition: its verses sedulously adhere to the twelve-bar format over which Hooker generally rides so roughshod". The original "Boom Boom" is an uptempo (168 beats per minute) blues song, which has been notated in 2/2 time in the key of F. Hooker had a unique sense of timing, which demanded "big-eared sidemen". They have been described as "just the right band" for "Boom Boom".
Hunter brought with him "the cream of the Motown label's session men, later known as the Funk Brothers": bassist James Jamerson, drummer Benny Benjamin, plus guitarist Larry Veeder, tenor saxophonist Hank Cosby, and baritone saxophonist Andrew "Mike" Terry.
Detroit keyboardist Joe Hunter, who had previously worked with Hooker, was again enlisted for the recording session. However, with Vee-Jay, he usually recorded with a small backing band, as heard on the singles " Dimples", "I Love You Honey", and "No Shoes". Prior to recording for Vee-Jay Records, John Lee Hooker was primarily a solo performer or accompanied by a second guitarist, such as early collaborators Eddie Burns or Eddie Kirkland. 4 Big Head Todd and the Monsters version.290–91).Īccording to most sources, today is Hooker’s 100th birthday! Below, a classic performance. Quoted in Working musicians: Defining moments from the road, the studio, and the stage by Bruce Pollock (New York: HarperEntertainment, 2002, pp. She went around telling everybody ‘I got John Lee to write that song.’ I gave her some bread for it, too, so she was pretty happy.” “About two months later I recorded it, and the record shot straight to the top. Then I went and sang it, and everybody went, Wow!” I finally got it down right, got it together, got it down in my head. I got up the next day and put one and one together, two and two together, trying to piece it out-taking things out, putting things in. At night I went to bed and I was still thinking of it. “I took that thing and I hummed it all the way home from the bar. Then one night she said, “Boom boom, I’m gonna shoot you down.’ She gave me a song but she didn’t know it.” Whenever I’d come in she’d point at me and say ‘Boom boom, you’re late again.’ It dawned on me that that was a good name for a song. Every night the band would beat me there sometimes they’d be on the bandstand playing by the time I got there.
I would come in there at night and I’d never be on time. There was a young lady there named Luilla, she was a bartender there. “I used to play at this place called the Apex Bar in Detroit. In an interview, John Lee Hooker described the genesis of his 1961 hit Boom boom:
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