JOHN LEE HOOKER
Name: John Lee Hooker
Born: 22 August 1917 Coahoma County, Mississippi
Died: 21 June 2001
John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1917 - June 21, 2001) was an influential American
post-war blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter born in Coahoma County near
Clarksdale, Mississippi. From a musical family, he was a cousin of Earl Hooker.
John was also influenced by his stepfather, a local blues guitarist, who learned
in Shreveport, Louisiana to play a droning, one-chord blues that was strikingly
different from the Delta blues of the time. John developed a half-spoken
style that was his trademark. Though similar to the early Delta blues, his music
was rhythmically free. 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).
Name: John Lee Hooker
Born: 22 August 1917 Coahoma County, Mississippi
Died: 21 June 2001
John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1917 - June 21, 2001) was an influential American
post-war blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter born in Coahoma County near
Clarksdale, Mississippi. From a musical family, he was a cousin of Earl Hooker.
John was also influenced by his stepfather, a local blues guitarist, who learned
in Shreveport, Louisiana to play a droning, one-chord blues that was strikingly
different from the Delta blues of the time. John developed a half-spoken
style that was his trademark. Though similar to the early Delta blues, his music
was rhythmically free. 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).