John Lee Hooker

Birthday: 1912-08-22
Deathday: 2001-06-21
Birthplace: Tutwiler, Mississippi, USA
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned

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. Hooker often incorporated other elements, including talking blues and early North Mississippi Hill country blues.

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