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.
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