Says John Lee Hooker Jr.: "If I tried to fill my father's shoes, I'd get cramps in my feet just trying to take one step." John Lee Hooker Jr. is no clone of the late, great, and lamented Detroit bluesman, but instead he's something that's needed much more: an artist who carries forward the sardonic and funky sound and vision of Johnny "Guitar" Watson and other blues-based R&B artists of the 1970s and 1980s. John Jr. says that his sound is two parts R&B, one part jazz and downhome blues. It all adds up to an evening of great urban sounds and an artist who, whether he admits it or not, has some of the charisma of his famous father. J. Poet of the All Music Guide says that the title track of John's latest, "All Hooked Up," is "replete with chattering rhythm guitar and propulsive horn stabs that'll make you break out in a cold sweat."