Eddie Kirkland played with John Lee Hooker for a number of years on all his major recordings, so he has connections to Clarksdale, where John Lee Hooker is from and he also tells a story about a Crossroads experience.

I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix.

I think I heard the name Muddy Waters first, then John Lee Hooker.

I played 20 minutes [at hooker] in each of the two trials.

'Boogie Chillen',' by John Lee Hooker - that is a riff.

It would appear that General Hooker has placed his hindquarters where his headquarters should be." (So said by Lee when he learned that General Hooker, the new Union Commander, had written, in a letter to his soldiers, that "My headquarters will be 'in the saddle.'