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Self-styled ‘rockabilly blues and soul man’ Steve Hooker

Hooker and his trio also receive occasional assistance from Morrissey-associated guitar-man Boz Boorer (on acoustic, organ, vocals and percussion), but it’s pretty much Steve’s show all the way: stomping, snarling, sliding and generally doing the classic British R&B business in the grand manner.

If gutsy, bluesy, thoroughly committed 70s-style pub-rock harking back to the Feelgoods heyday is your thing, you’re in luck – it’s Steve Hooker’s thing too.

Charles Shaar Murray is the award-winning author of Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix And Post-war Pop, and Boogie Man: The Adventures of John Lee Hooker in the American Twentieth Century. The first two decades of his journalism, criticism and vulgar abuse have been collected in Shots From The Hip. A founding contributor to Q and Mojo magazines, his work has appeared in newspapers like The Guardian, The Observer, The Independent, The Independent on Sunday, Evening Standard, and magazines including Word, Vogue, MacUser, Guitarist, Prospect and New Statesman.

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Stomping, snarling and sliding.