While it easy to sympathize with their sentiments, some music writers have obviously gone way over the top in their reaction to credits for a bassist named George Washington on vintage John Lee Hooker albums, comparing the way his lines are played to the sound of a fruit tree being chopped down or interpreting the famous spoken lyrics "Boy gotta boogie It's in him and it's gotta come out" as relevant to the Declaration of Independence. Taking this artist's name at face value, it is at the...
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