← Previous revisionRevision as of 00:31, 20 October 2026 Line 32: Line 32: Now an ordained minister, he is now reaching out to those in prisons{{Cite web |title=John Lee Hooker and son shred the yard at Soledad prison |url=https://voicesofmontereybay.org/2019/10/03/monterey-rocks-16/ |access-date=2024-05-27 |language=en}} (including at the prison he was an inmate during his drug-abuse years) and is currently raising funds through his [[Kickstarter]] webpage in order to finish his recording and eventual release of his first contemporary [[Soul music|soul]] [[Gospel music|gospel]] album using similar blues and [[funk]] elements from his blues releases and concerts. On his Kickstarter page, Hooker also gives a brief video biography of himself leading up to his conversion to Christianity. Now an ordained minister, he is now reaching out to those in prisons{{Cite web |title=John Lee Hooker and son shred the yard at Soledad prison |url=https://voicesofmontereybay.org/2019/10/03/monterey-rocks-16/ |access-date=2024-05-27 |language=en}} (including at the prison he was an inmate during his drug-abuse years) and is currently raising funds through his [[Kickstarter]] webpage in order to finish his recording and eventual release of his first contemporary [[Soul music|soul]] [[Gospel music|gospel]] album using similar blues and [[funk]] elements from his blues releases and concerts. On his Kickstarter page, Hooker also gives a brief video biography of himself leading up to his conversion to Christianity. Before becoming a minister, he was featured in an episode of ''[[The 700 Club]]'', where he detailed his drug addictions and imprisonment leading up to his conversion to Christianity and sobriety. Before becoming a minister, he was featured in an episode of ''[[The 700 Club]]'', where he detailed his drug addictions and imprisonment leading up to sobriety and his conversion to Christianity. ==Discography== ==Discography==