About
John Lee Hooker was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. The son of a sharecropper, he rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-style adaptation of Delta blues that he developed in Detroit. Hooker often incorporated other elements, including talking blues and early North Mississippi hill country blues. He developed his own driving-rhythm boogie style, distinct from the 1930s–1940s piano-derived boogie-woogie. Hooker was ranked 35 in Rolling Stone’s 2015 list of 100 greatest guitarists, and has been cited as one of the greatest male blues vocalists of all time.
Albums/Songs:
- Urban Blues
- Plays and Sings the Blues
- Highway of Blues
- Don’t Turn Me From Your Door
- The Folk Lore of John Lee Hooker
- The Big Soul of John Lee Hooker
- The Country Blues of John Lee Hooker
- On Campus
- The Real Folk Blues
- I Wanna Dance All Night
- That’s My Story (Sings the Blues)
- Burnin’
- On the Waterfront
- Travelin’
- I’m John Lee Hooker
- Burning Hell
- The Great John Lee Hooker
- If You Miss ’Im… I Got ’Im
- John Lee Hooker Sings Blues
- House of the Blues
- That’s Where It’s At!
- John Lee Hooker
- Simply the Truth
- It Serve You Right to Suffer
- …and Seven Nights
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