John Lee Hooker was perhaps the most recognizable and revered of the great post war bluesmen His recording and performance career spanned six decades, ending on a career high in the 1990s Hooker made some of the genre's most iconic recordings and collected a legion of acolytes including Van Morrison, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, and Bonnie Raitt the 2 CDs include many of his most vital and enduring recordings, including 'Boom, Boom', 'Crawlin' King Snake', 'Whiskey and Wimmen' and many more the rare performance on the DVD was videotaped by a local cable television broadcaster on 6 July 1974 in front of 6,000 people at a festival in Massachusetts, and captures Hooker in fine form.