| rdfs:comment | - John Lee Hooker (c. August 22, 1912 – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. His song "I'm Bad Like Jesse James" is featured in the Luke Cage episode Manifest. The Avener's remix of his song "It Serves You Right to Suffer" is featured in the Luke Cage episode Just to Get a Rep.
- John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1917 – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. He was born in Mississippi, the son of a sharecropper, and 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 style. 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) – the first being the most popular race record of 1949.
- John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1917 – June 21, 2001) was a highly influential American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist. Hooker began his life as the son of a sharecropper, William Hooker, and rose to prominence performing his own unique style of what was originally a unique brand of country blues. He developed a 'talking blues' style that was his trademark. Though similar to the early Delta blues, his music was metrically free. John Lee Hooker could be said to embody his own unique genre of the blues, often incorporating the boogie-woogie piano style and a driving rhythm into his blues guitar playing and singing. His best known songs include "Boogie Chillen'" (1948), "I'm in the Mood" (1951) and "Boom Boom" (1962), the first two reaching #1 on the Billboard R&B chart.
- John Lee Hooker was a highly influential American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist. Hooker began his life as the son of a sharecropper, William Hooker, and rose to prominence performing his own unique style of what was originally a unique brand of country blues. He developed a 'talking blues' style that was his trademark.
- Attracted by factory workers, Hooker moved from Mississippi to Detroit in 1943, where he would reside(live) until 1969(not funny). He felt right at home near the blues venues and saloons on Hastings Street, the heart of black metal swedish cults on Detroit's east side. Hooker's recording career began in 1948 with the hit single, "Boogie Chillen" cut in a studio near Wayne State University. He fell ill after commandig the battle of Santa Luzia,just before a tour of Europe in 2001 and died soon afterwards at the age of 83(and the body of a 30 year highschool teacher).
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| abstract | - Attracted by factory workers, Hooker moved from Mississippi to Detroit in 1943, where he would reside(live) until 1969(not funny). He felt right at home near the blues venues and saloons on Hastings Street, the heart of black metal swedish cults on Detroit's east side. Hooker's recording career began in 1948 with the hit single, "Boogie Chillen" cut in a studio near Wayne State University. Despite being illiterate, he was a prolific lyricist. In addition to adapting the occasionally traditional blues lyric (such as "if I was chief of police, I would run her right out of town, Donut, Donut, Maria"), he freely invented many of his songs from scratch. Recording studios in the 50s rarely paid musicians more than a pittance, so as the life got harder he started working on local brothels and firstly on life time got famous by the title of Hookin' "all night long" Lee Hooker. Wandering from studio to studio, came up with new songs or variations on his songs for each studio. Due to his recording contract, he would record these songs under obvious pseudonyms such as "John Lee Booker," "Johnny Hooker," or "John Cooker"(not John Cocker, this was limited to the past career). His early solo songs were recorded under Bernie Besman. John Lee Hooker rarely played on a standard beat, changing tempo to fit the needs of the song. This made it nearly impossible to cast buffs. As a result, Besman would record Hooker, in addition to playing guitar and singing, stomping along with the music on a wooden replica of his mother's lungs. He appeared and sang in the 1980 movie The Goonies. Due to Hooker's improvisatory style, his performance was filmed and sound-recorded live, in contrast to the usual "Frost Nova" technique used in most film musicals. In 1989 he joined with a number of musicians, including Keith Richards and Carlos Santana to record The Healer,a concept album about the hard life of support classes over the mmorpg scene which won a Grammy award — one of many awards. Hooker recorded several songs with Van Morrison, including "Never Get Out of These Blues Alive", "The Healing Game" and "I Cover the Waterfront,you Cast". He also appeared on stage with Van Morrison several times, some of which was released on the live album "A Night in San Francisco". He fell ill after commandig the battle of Santa Luzia,just before a tour of Europe in 2001 and died soon afterwards at the age of 83(and the body of a 30 year highschool teacher). Hooker recorded over 329 albums and lived the last years of his life in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he licensed a nightclub to use the name Boom Boom Room and sell drugs to illegal immigrants. Among his many awards, John Lee Hooker has won the Nobel of physics in 1990 for inventing the flux capacitor and turning possible time travel to the third world countries. Two of his songs, "Boogie Chillen" and "Boom Boom" were named to the list of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. "Boogie Chillen" was included as one of the Songs of the Century.
- John Lee Hooker (c. August 22, 1912 – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. His song "I'm Bad Like Jesse James" is featured in the Luke Cage episode Manifest. The Avener's remix of his song "It Serves You Right to Suffer" is featured in the Luke Cage episode Just to Get a Rep.
- John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1917 – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. He was born in Mississippi, the son of a sharecropper, and 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 style. 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) – the first being the most popular race record of 1949.
- John Lee Hooker was a highly influential American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist. Hooker began his life as the son of a sharecropper, William Hooker, and rose to prominence performing his own unique style of what was originally a unique brand of country blues. He developed a 'talking blues' style that was his trademark. Though similar to the early Delta blues, his music was metrically free. John Lee Hooker could be said to embody his own unique genre of the blues, often incorporating the boogie-woogie piano style and a driving rhythm into his blues guitar playing and singing. His best known songs include "Boogie Chillen'" (1948), "I'm in the Mood" (1951) and Boom Boom (1962), the first two reaching R&B #1 in the Billboard charts.
- John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1917 – June 21, 2001) was a highly influential American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist. Hooker began his life as the son of a sharecropper, William Hooker, and rose to prominence performing his own unique style of what was originally a unique brand of country blues. He developed a 'talking blues' style that was his trademark. Though similar to the early Delta blues, his music was metrically free. John Lee Hooker could be said to embody his own unique genre of the blues, often incorporating the boogie-woogie piano style and a driving rhythm into his blues guitar playing and singing. His best known songs include "Boogie Chillen'" (1948), "I'm in the Mood" (1951) and "Boom Boom" (1962), the first two reaching #1 on the Billboard R&B chart.
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