John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1917 – June 21, 2001) was an influential American blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter born in Clarksdale, Mississippi. From either the musical personal, he occurs as cousin-german of Earl Hooker.

Though he stuttered around his normal speech, he performed in the half-spoken style that became his trademark. Rhythmically, his music was loose, the property green using early acoustical Delta blues musicians. His vocal phrasing was less closely attached to specific blocks than virtually all blues singers'. This casual, rambling style got been step by step diminishing by owning a onset of electric blues bands from Chicago but, even while non swimming solo, Hooker retained it around his healthy.

Attracted by manufacturing plant function, Hooker moved to Detroit around 1943, where he would reside until 1969. He felt perfect home touching a blues venues & saloons in Hastings Street, a heart of blacken amusement in Detroit's east side. Hooker's recording career began inside 1948 with the hit individual, "Boogie Chillen" cut around the studio touching Wayne State University.

He maintained the solo career, popular using blues aficionados & folk music fans of the early 1960s & crossed concluded to whiten audiences, rendering an early chance to the immature Bob Dylan.

He appeared & sang in the 1980 picture The Blues Brothers.

Around 1989 he joined with the total of musicians, including Keith Richards and Carlos Santana to record The Therapist, which won the Grammy award — one of many awards.

He fell sick good prior to the tour of Europe inside 2001 and died soon afterward at a age of 84.

Hooker recorded terminated Century albums & lived a survive years of his life inside San Francisco, California, where he licensed a nightspot to utilize a title Boom Boom Room, when one of his hits.

Among his numbers of awards, John Lee Hooker has a star on the Hollywood Hike of Fame & around 1991 he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 2 of his songs, "Boogie Chillen" & "Boom Boom" were known as to the names of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.

John Lee recorded many songs by using Van Morrison, including "Never get out of these blues alive", "The healing game" and "I cover the waterfront". He as well appeared in stage sustaining Van Morrison many days, occasionally of which was freed on the survive album "A night in San Francisco".

Quotes
"It don't take me no three days to record no album." (in a period of the recording of the double album ''Hooker 'North Heat'' by using Canned Heat.)

Discography

Albums

1959 - Folk Blues 1959 - Home Of The Blues 1959 - A United states Blues of John Lee Hooker 1960 - Blues Man 1960 - I personally'1000 John Lee Hooker 1960 - That's The Story 1960 - Travelin' 1961 - John Lee Hooker Sing A Blues 1961 - Plays & Sings A Blues 1961 - A Folk Traditional knowledge of John Lee Hooker 1962 - Burnin' 1962 - Drifting a Blues 1962 - A Blues 1962 - Tupelo Blues 1963 - Don't Turn Us from either The Door: John Lee Hooker Sings His Blues 1964 - Burning Hell 1964 - Awesome Blues Sounds 1964 - I personally Obviously Shout a Blues 1964 - A Large Soul of John Lee Hooker 1964 - A Smashing John Lee Hooker (Japan exclusively) 1965 - Hooker & The Hogs 1966 - It Serves We Correct to Suffer 1966 - The Rattling Folk Blues 1967 - Survive at Cafè Au Last-Go 1968 - Hooked in Blues 1969 - Acquire Back Home 1969 - If You Miss'Im I personally Had'Im 1969 - Just A Truth 1969 - That's In which It's At! 1969 - Make their way Back Page (Foremost Issue) 1970 - If You Miss 'Im...I personally Had 'Im 1970 - John Lee Hooker on the Waterfront 1970 - Moanin' & Stompin' Blues 1971 - Endless Boogie 1971 - Goin' Down Main road 51 1971 - Half The Stranger 1971 - Hooker'north'Heat/Infinite boogie 1971 - I personally Sense Good 1971 - Never Become Away from These Blues Alive 1972 - Detroit Special 1972 - Survive At Soledad Prison 1974 - Absolutely free! Beer & Chicken 1974 - Mad Human Blues 1976 - Alone 1976 - Inside Person 1977 - Black Snake 1977 - Dusty Road 1978 - A Cream 1979 - Sad & Lonesome 1980 - Everybody Rockin' 1980 - Sittin' On text Thinkin' 1981 - Hooker 'north' Heat (Recorded Survive at a Hound Venice Theatre) 1987 - Jealous 1988 - Condition Blues 1989 - Highway Of Blues 1989 - John Lee Hooker's Fortieth Day of remembrance Album 1989 - A Detroit Lion 1989 - A Healer 1990 - Don't Wise shoppers Remember Me 1991 - Extra Very Folk Blues: A Missing Album 1991 - Mr. Lucky 1992 - Boom Boom 1992 - This Is Hip 1992 - Urban Blues 1993 - Nothing However A Blues 1994 - King of the Boogie 1994 - Original Folk Blues...Plus 1994 - Dimples (Classic Blues) 1995 - Guide Boogie-woogie: Early Studio Recordings, 1948-1952 1995 - Chill Out 1996 - Moanin' a Blues (Eclipse) 1996 - Alone: A Number 1 Concert 1997 - Don't Look Back 1997 - Alone: A 2nd Concert 1998 - Black Human Blues 2000 - In Campus 2001 - Concert at Newport 2001 - A Cream (Re-reprinting) 2001 - The Really Blues: Sleep in Houston 1979 2002 - Survive At Newport 2003 - Face to Face 2003 - Burning Hell (My Globe) 2003 - Rock By using Me 2004 - Jack O' Diamonds: A 1949 Recordings

Compilations

1974 - Mad Human Blues (Chess 1951-1966) 1989 - A Hook: Twenty Years of Hits 1991 - Hobo Blues 1991 - A Chess Masters 1991 - A Complete Chess Folk Blues Sessions (The Very Folk Blues/Additional Rattling Folk Blues) 1991 - A Ultimate Collection 1948-1990 1992 - Right Of: 1965-1974 1992 - A Ultimate Collection (Universal) 1992 - A Vee-Jay Years, 1955 - 1964 1993 - Boom Boom (UK simply) 1993 - A Legendary Modern Recordings 1948-1954 1994 - Blues Collection 1994 - John Lee Hooker (LaserLight) 1994 - A Early Years 1994 - Mobile Blues 1995 - A Super Right Of 1996 - Blues Legend 1996 - Survive at Coffee shop au Last-Last (& Soledad Prison) 1997 - His Right Chess Sides 1997 - Infect Concert 1997 - A Essential Collection 1998 - A Better of Friends 1998 - A Complete 50's Chess Recordings 1999 - Right of John Lee Hooker: 20th Century Masters 1999 - This Is Hip [The Best Of] 2000 - A Definitive Collection 2001 - Born By using A Blues 2001 - Gold Collection 2001 - Legendary Blues Recordings: John Lee Hooker 2002 - Blues Prior to Sunrise 2002 - A Complete - Vol. 1 [Body & Soul] 2002 - A Complete - Vol. 2 [Body & Soul] 2002 - A Complete - Vol. 3 [Body & Soul] 2002 - A Complete - Vol. 4 [Body & Soul] 2002 - The Rattling Folk Blues/More Rattling Folk Blues 2002 - Timeless Collection 2003 - Blues Kingpins 2003 - Boogie Man 2003 - Final Recordings, Vol. Ace: Face to Face 2003 - A Collection 1948-52 2004 - Don't Look Back: Complete Blues 2004 - A Complete - Vol. 5 [Body & Soul] 2005 - A Complete - Vol. 6 [Body & Soul]