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INTRO

I got a history long as from here to London, England, and back, and back again. I got so much to tell, and so much to write about. Everything you read on the album covers is not true, and every album cover reads different. People using their own ideas; they didn’t come to me, to get it from me. John Lee did this, he did that. I’m gonna tell you, as far as I know, the truth about my life. I got nothin’ to hold back. Some things I have forgotten. Some things you ask me, I know but I done forgotten. I just about know what I did, but some people may say . . . tell you some things I didn’t do. Nobody know John Lee Hooker. They know as much about my cat as they know about me. It was a hard road.

Sometimes I don’t enjoy talkin’ about it, but it’s true. Some of it you hate to think about, you just want to throw it out your mind. You don’t even want to think about what you come through, because sometimes it brings you down thinking about the hard times, the rough times, what happened to you over the years. There’s a lot of misery, hatred, disappointment . . . all that. I hate to talk about it . . . but it’s there. A lot of them were rough years. You just want to think about the good things, the happy things. There’s so many things I regret, I can’t put my hand on it. I made my decisions early in life, to be a musician. Before that, I was a hard-working person. I didn’t like handouts. I’d get out there and work, earn a living and stuff like that, but that wasn’t what I was going to do the rest of my life. I knew that.

That was a hard road, right up to now. It was a hard road.