Fifty years ago, John Lee Hooker played the Belle Starr Lodge in Colden — a small Western New York venue far from the stages he’d shared with the Rolling Stones and the Doors, but exactly the kind of intimate setting where his boogie blues hit hardest. Hooker was a living link to the Mississippi Delta tradition, and his one-chord grooves hit differently in a small room where you could hear his foot stomping the stage. Rural Erie County got one of the most important figures in blues history for a night.
Your Guide to Live Music in Upstate New York
