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John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1912 [1] or 1917 [4] [5] – 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 that he developed in Detroit .
The Healer is a blues album by John Lee Hooker, released in 1989 by Chameleon. The album features collaborations with Bonnie Raitt, Charlie Musselwhite, Los Lobos and Carlos Santana, among others. The album was a critical and commercial success and was important for Hooker's later career.
Charles W. Thompson (March 2, 1925 – December 28, 1995), [1] [2] known as Maxwell Street Jimmy Davis, was an American electric blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter.He played with John Lee Hooker, recorded an album for Elektra Records in the mid-1960s, and remained a regular street musician on Maxwell Street, in Chicago, for over 40 years. [3]
...And Seven Nights is an album by the blues musician John Lee Hooker. [1] It was recorded in London in 1964 and released by the Verve Folkways label the following year. Hooker plays with the British band the Groundhogs. The album was re-released with the title Hooker and the Hogs and with overdubbed horns as On the Waterfront. [2] [3]
John Lee Hooker Plays & Sings the Blues is an album by blues musician John Lee Hooker. which was issued by Chess Records in 1961. It compiles songs recorded in 1951 and 1952, some of which were originally released as singles.
All compositions credited to John Lee Hooker "I Don't Wanna Go to Vietnam" – 5:36 "Mini Skirts" – 3:28 "Mean Mean Woman" – 5:45 "I Wanna Bugaloo" – 4:15
John Lee Hooker was an American blues singer and guitarist who recorded from 1948 to 2001. His discography includes recordings issued by various record companies in different formats. His discography includes recordings issued by various record companies in different formats.
In 1995, John Lee Hooker's "Boom Boom" was included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's list of "The Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll". [30] It was inducted into the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame in 2009 in the "Classics of Blues Recording" category. [7] A Detroit Free Press poll in 2016 ranked the song at number 37 in "Detroit's 100 Greatest ...