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John Lee Hooker
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 1930…
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entertainment · American blues musician (1912 or 1917–2001) · guitarist · singer · singer-songwriter · composer · recording artist · blues musician · also John Lee Hooker, Hooker
Born 22 August 1917 · Died 21 June 2001 · Q44570
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2026· 13 entries
ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos: Video Family of missing American Lynette Hooker arrives in the Bahamas to help with search - ABC News
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Published video “"Never Get Out Of These Blues Alive" with The Coast to Coast Blues Band, Live in 1981.”.
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Published video “When it’s that good kind of “I’m Leaving!””.
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Published video “Help the kids of Detroit keep the Blues alive 💙”.
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Published video “Bring the Blues home.”.
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Published video “The fans were feeling The Hook at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1960!”.
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Published video “In August 1974, John Lee Hooker hit NBC’s THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL”.
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Published video ““One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer”.... in the most literal sense.\”.
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Published video “No one could rile up a crowd like The Hook!”.
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Published video “Today's affirmation: "They call me Mr. Lucky, Bad luck don't follow me."”.
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Published video “Check out this cover of “I’m In The Mood” by Instagram user u/bryanhimes 🎸”.
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Released album “The Charcot Sessions”.
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2018· 1 entry
Released album “Black Cat Blues”.
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2017· 1 entry
A series of events was held to celebrate the supposed centenary of his birth
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2001· 2 entries
Hooker died in his sleep at home in Los Altos
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Died 2001-06-21.
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2000· 2 entries
Awarded Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (2000).
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And received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1997
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1997· 2 entries
Released album “Don’t Look Back”.
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Released album “Hard Times”.
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1995· 1 entry
Released album “Chill Out”.
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1992· 1 entry
Released album “Boom Boom”.
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1991· 5 entries
Released album “The Ultimate Collection: 1948–1990”.
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Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1991).
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Released album “Introducing…”.
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Released album “Boogie Chillen’”.
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Released album “Mr. Lucky”.
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1990· 6 entries
Released album “Vol. 2: Hobo Blues”.
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Released album “Moanin' Blues”.
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Released album “The Boogie Chillen Man”.
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Released album “Boogie Awhile”.
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Released album “Don't You Remember Me”.
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Released album “Gotham Golden Classics: The Rare Recordings”.
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1989· 14 entries
Released album “Sad and Lonesome”.
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Released album “The John Lee Hooker Story”.
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Recorded the album The Healer with Carlos Santana, Bonnie Raitt, and others
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Released album “The Story”.
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Released album “Boom Boom! & Other Hot Hits by the King of Boogie”.
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Released album “The Healer”.
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Released album “The Best of John Lee Hooker: The Hook”.
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Released album “The Hook: 20 Years of Hits & Hot Boogie”.
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Released album “Boogie Chillen”.
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Released album “Mad Man Blues”.
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Released album “John Lee Hooker’s 40th Anniversary Album”.
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Released album “My Story Is Blues”.
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Released album “Let’s Make It”.
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Released album “The Best of... Plus”.
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1988· 4 entries
Released album “20 Greatest Hits”.
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Released album “John Lee Hooker: The Collection - 20 Blues Greats”.
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Released album “The Collection”.
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Released album “House of the Blues”.
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1987· 2 entries
Released album “Detroit Blues 1950-1951”.
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Released album “House Rent Boogie”.
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1986· 2 entries
Released album “Jealous”.
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Released album “Boogie Chillun'”.
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1984· 1 entry
Released album “Blues Before Sunrise”.
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1982· 2 entries
Released album “Tantalizing with the Blues”.
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Released album “Sings John Lee Hooker”.
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1981· 3 entries
Released album “Everybody Rockin'”.
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Released album “John Lee Hooker / Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry (La grande storia del rock)”.
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Released album “Moanin’ Blues”.
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1980· 2 entries
And the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991
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Released album “This Is Hip”.
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1975· 2 entries
Released album “Black Rhythm' n' Blues”.
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Released album “Hobo Blues, Vol. 1”.
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1974· 2 entries
Released album “Free Beer and Chicken”.
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Released album “Boogie With Hooker n’ Heat”.
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1973· 3 entries
Released album “Slim's Stomp”.
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Released album “Born in Mississippi, Raised Up in Tennessee”.
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Released album “John Lee Hooker’s Detroit”.
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1972· 2 entries
Released album “Johnny Lee”.
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Released album “Never Get Out of These Blues Alive”.
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1971· 5 entries
Released album “Goin' Down Highway 51”.
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Released album “Hooker ’n Heat”.
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Released album “Any Where / Any Time / Any Place”.
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Released album “Endless Boogie”.
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Released album “I Feel Good!”.
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1970· 6 entries
Released album “Get Back Home in the U.S.A.”.
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Released album “Moanin' and Stompin' Blues”.
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Recorded the joint album Hooker 'n Heat, with the American blues and boogie rock group Canned Heat, whose repertoire included adaptations of Hooker songs
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Released album “I Wanna Dance All Night”.
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Released album “The Real Blues”.
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Released album “On the Waterfront”.
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1969· 4 entries
Released album “If You Miss ’Im… I Got ’Im”.
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Released album “No Friend Around”.
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Released album “That's Where It's At!”.
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Released album “Simply the Truth”.
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1968· 1 entry
Released album “John Lee Hooker”.
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1967· 2 entries
Released album “Urban Blues”.
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Released album “Original Folk Blues”.
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1966· 5 entries
Released album “It Serve You Right to Suffer”.
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Released album “Is He the World’s Greatest Blues Singer?”.
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“One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer”
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Released album “…and Seven Nights”.
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Released album “The Real Folk Blues”.
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1964· 2 entries
Released album “Teachin' the Blues”.
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Released album “Burning Hell”.
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1963· 4 entries
Released album “Don’t Turn Me From Your Door”.
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Released album “The Great John Lee Hooker”.
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Released album “The Big Soul of John Lee Hooker”.
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Released album “On Campus”.
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1962· 5 entries
Released album “John Lee Hooker Sings The Blues”.
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Hooker gained greater exposure when he toured Europe in the annual American Folk Blues Festival
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Released album “The Best of John Lee Hooker”.
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Released album “Burnin’”.
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Released album “Folk Blues”.
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1961· 2 entries
Released album “The Folk Lore of John Lee Hooker”.
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Released album “Plays and Sings the Blues”.
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1960· 4 entries
Released album “Travelin’”.
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Released album “That’s My Story: John Lee Hooker Sings the Blues”.
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Released album “John Lee Hooker Sings Blues”.
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Released album “The Blues”.
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1959· 3 entries
Released album “The Country Blues of John Lee Hooker”.
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Released album “I’m John Lee Hooker”.
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Released album “Highway of Blues”.
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1948· 1 entry
When Modern Records, based in Los Angeles, released a demo he had recorded for Bernie Besman in Detroit
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1917· 1 entry
Born 1917-08-22.
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