| Born: | 22 August 1917 Comment | | When did John Lee Hooker die? / Died | 21 June 2001 | | How many years did John Lee Hooker live? / Lived | 83 years | | Zodiac sign: | Leo |
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John Lee Hooker facts
- August 22, 1912 – June 21, 2001) 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
- 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
- Some of his best known songs include "Boogie Chillen'" (1948), "Crawling King Snake" (1949), "Dimples" (1956), "Boom Boom" (1962), and "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" (1966)
- Several of his later albums, including The Healer (1989), Mr
- Lucky (1991), Chill Out (1995), and Don't Look Back (1997) were album chart successes in the U
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- and U
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