John Lee Hooker

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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