Ask Cameroon-born Parisian singer/guitarist Roland Tchakounté and he’ll tell you — John Lee Hooker passed on the spirit of the blues to him! Admittedly, this is a Europeanized blues sung by an African, an expat who’s won over a French fanbase (including a triumphant performance at Blues-sur-Seine in 2005) but who was also the first French bluesman ever invited to play the Chicago Blues Festival. Charismatic and transfixing, he sings the hoodoo in bamileke, with the accompaniment of the superb Mick Ravassat, master of slide Dobro.
