John Lee Hooker
Birth Date
8/22/1912 (Age 88)Birth Place
Tutwiler, Mississippi, USADeath Date
6/21/2001Departments
Biography
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.
Best Known For
Street Slim
Self (archive footage)
