Who Can We Turn To Now?

Watch John Lee Hooker tell the story of the people of Tupelo, when it rained both night and day...


These folks say the song is about a tornado...
"Hooker ... had also just done his first version of “Tupelo Blues” (about the 1936 Tupelo tornado – although he depicts the event as a flood) on Riverside (U.S.) LP 12-838, "