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John Lee Hooker (Coahoma County, Mississippi, August 22, 1917 – Los Altos, California, June 21, 2001) was an influential American post-war blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter.
John Lee Hooker could be said to embody his own unique genre of the blues, often incorporating the boogie-woogie piano style and a driving rhythm into his masterful and idiosyncratic blues guitar and singing. His best known songs include “Boogie Chillen” (1948) and “Boom Boom” (1962).
Hooker was the youngest of the eleven children of William Hooker (1871–1923), a sharecropper and a Baptist preacher, and Minnie Ramsey (1875–?).
Hooker and his siblings were home-schooled. They were permitted to listen only to religious songs, with his earliest musical exposure being the spirituals sung in church.
In 1921, his parents separated. The next year, his mother married William Moore, a blues singer who provided John’s first introduction to the guitar (and whom John would later credit for his distinctive playing style). The year after that (1923), John’s natural father died; and at age 15, John ran away from home, never to see his mother and stepfather again.
He was a cousin of Earl Hooker,
Throughout the 1930s, Hooker lived in Memphis where he worked on Beale Street and occasionally performed at house parties. He worked in factories in various cities during World War II, drifting until he found himself in Detroit in 1948 working at Ford Motor Company. He felt right at home near the blues venues and saloons on Hastings Street, the heart of black entertainment on Detroit’s east side. In a city noted for its piano players, guitar players were scarce.
John Lee Hooker could be said to embody his own unique genre of the blues, often incorporating the boogie-woogie piano style and a driving rhythm into his masterful and idiosyncratic blues guitar and singing. His best known songs include “Boogie Chillen” (1948) and “Boom Boom” (1962).
Hooker was the youngest of the eleven children of William Hooker (1871–1923), a sharecropper and a Baptist preacher, and Minnie Ramsey (1875–?).
Hooker and his siblings were home-schooled. They were permitted to listen only to religious songs, with his earliest musical exposure being the spirituals sung in church.
In 1921, his parents separated. The next year, his mother married William Moore, a blues singer who provided John’s first introduction to the guitar (and whom John would later credit for his distinctive playing style). The year after that (1923), John’s natural father died; and at age 15, John ran away from home, never to see his mother and stepfather again.
He was a cousin of Earl Hooker,
Throughout the 1930s, Hooker lived in Memphis where he worked on Beale Street and occasionally performed at house parties. He worked in factories in various cities during World War II, drifting until he found himself in Detroit in 1948 working at Ford Motor Company. He felt right at home near the blues venues and saloons on Hastings Street, the heart of black entertainment on Detroit’s east side. In a city noted for its piano players, guitar players were scarce.
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GREAT GUY!!
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What V said.
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john lee hooker makes u wonder why anyone would try record anything when perfection had already been invented!!
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Drunk_Trumpet wrote:
man the healer sucks
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archange08 wrote:
yeah!! "Blues man" extrasensorial feeling!!!
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CharlesTBagger wrote:
John Lee Hooker is my heavy metal.
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Toementor wrote:
A multitude obviously. John Lee Hooker is my favourite Blues musician. :3
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JulkaG wrote:
As somebody says that, how many chicks he had with that voice?....
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death2corpse666 wrote:
bansuj czarnuchu!
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Ton87 wrote:
i'm baaad, like jesse james
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Mind_Plague wrote:
Hmmph.. I wouldn't like having last name like this. Blues is nice anyway.
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cheitel wrote:
ober ! bitte noch 2 liter sahne für die dicke am nachbartisch
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LiamGallagher wrote:
the healer sucks
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jmfmr wrote:
he's the man
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dtu wrote:
Just dug out "Tantalizing With The Blues" and it sounds amazing. Do yourself a favour and track it down. Mellower and less sparse than his earlier work and more authentic than his more recent releases. Also features Van Morrison.
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Von-666 wrote:
Fuck, I love this man.
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gretchenaro wrote:
JLH is the blues!
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love love love
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Parisblues wrote:
find it there : http://www.last.fm/music/John+Lee+Hooker/_/The+Healer
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The Healer should be up in the charts! ^
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