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other people|John HookerUse mdy dates|date=December 2011Infobox musical artist | name = John Lee Hooker| image = JohnLeeHooker1997.jpg| caption = John Lee Hooker performing at the Long Beach Music Festival, August 31, 1997| landscape = yes| background = solo_singer| birth_name =| alias =| birth_date = birth date|1917|08|22|mf=y| birth_place = Coahoma County, Mississippi , United Statescite web |url= http://www.johnleehooker.com/biography.htm |title=John Lee Hooker - Biography |publisher=www.johnleehooker.com |accessdate=2011-02-19 | death_date = death date and age|2001|06|21|1917|08|22|mf=y| death_place = Los Altos, California , United States| instrument = Guitar, vocals| genre = blues music|Blues , talking blues , country blues | occupation = Singer-songwriter, Musician, Songwriter | years_active = 1943–2001cite web|last=Dahl |first=Bill |url= http://www.allmusic.com/artist/john-lee-hooker-p371 |title=John Lee Hooker |publisher=AllMusic |date= |accessdate=2011-11-04| label = Vee-Jay Records|Vee-Jay , Chess Records|Chess , Bluesway Records|Bluesway , Point Blank Records|Point Blank , Crown Records|Crown , Modern Records|Modern , Atco Records|Atco , King Records (United States)|King , Specialty Records|Specialty , Polydor Records|Polydor , Savoy Records|Savoy , Impulse& #33; Records|Impulse! , Ace Records (US)|Ace , Atlantic Records|Atlantic , Verve Records|Verve | associated_acts = Carlos Santana , Bonnie Raitt , B.B. King , Van Morrison , Bob Dylan , Canned Heat | website = URL| http://www.johnleehooker.com/| notable_instruments = Epiphone Sheraton John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1917 & ndash; 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 (John Lee Hooker song)|Boom Boom " (1962), the first two reaching R& B #1 in the Billboard (magazine)|Billboard List of number-one rhythm and blues hits (United States)|charts .
Early life
There is some debate as to the year of Hooker's birth1915, 1917, 1920, and 1923 have all been cited (Boogie Man, p. 22). 1917 is the one most commonly cited, although Hooker himself claimed, at times, 1920, which would have made him "the same age as the recorded blues" (p. 59)According to the 1920 federal census, series T625/Roll 895/page 235, in the city of Tutwiler, Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, Supervisor’s District 2, Enumeration District 87, Sheet #29 A, line 25, enumerated February 3, 1920, John Hooker is one of nine children living with William and Minnie Hooker. John is listed as 7 years of age at his last birthday. If accurate – and if his birthday is August 22 as he claims – John Lee Hooker was born August 22, 1912. Most of his other known siblings (cited in Boogie Man, p. 23) – Daniel, Minnie, Isaac, Archie, Alice, Sarah, Sam, and Mary – are included in the census record (along with their proper relative ages) as well as parents William and Minnie's relative ages, possibly giving greater credibility to the 1912 birthdate. in Coahoma County, Mississippi , the youngest of the eleven children of William Hooker (1871& ndash;1923),According to "Boogie Man", pg. 24, "in 1928, Will Hooker Sr. and Jr. made a profit of twenty-eight dollars" from farming, making his death in 1923 impossible a sharecropper and Baptist preacher, and Minnie Ramsey (born 1875, date of death unknown);According to the 1920 federal census, series T625/Roll 895/page 235, in the city of Tutwiler, Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, Supervisor’s District 2, Enumeration District 87, Sheet #29 A, lines 18-19, enumerated February 3, 1920, William and Minnie were 48 and 39 years of age, respectively. Given this information, Minnie's year of birth is ca. 1880, not 1875. It should also be noted Minnie was known to be a "decade or so younger" than husband William (Boogie Man, p. 23), again giving further credibility to this census record as corroborative evidence concerning John Lee Hooker's origins. according to his official website, he was born on August 22, 1917.
Hooker and his siblings were Homeschooling|home-schooled . They were permitted to listen only to religious songs, with his earliest exposure being the spirituals sung in church. In 1921, his parents separated. The next year, his mother married William Moore, a blues singer who provided Hooker with his first introduction to the guitar (and whom John would later credit for his distinctive playing style). Conversation with the Blues By Paul Oliver, p. 188 See also: Guitar Facts By Bennett Joe, Trevor Curwen, Cliff Douse, Joe Bennett, p. 76 John's stepfather was his first outstanding blues influence. William Moore was a local blues guitarist who learned in Shreveport, Louisiana to play a droning, one-chord blues that was strikingly different from the Delta blues of the time.cite book|first=Robert|last=Palmer|year=1982|title=Deep Blues|edition= |publisher=Penguin Books|location=United States|pages=242–243|isbn=0-14-006223-8 Around 1923 his natural father died. At the age of 15, John Lee Hooker ran away from home, reportedly never seeing his mother or stepfather again. Boogie Man p. 43.
Throughout the 1930s, Hooker lived in Memphis, Tennessee where he worked on Beale Street at The New Daisy Theatre and occasionally performed at house parties. He worked in factories in various cities during World War II, drifting until he found himself in Detroit in 1948 working at Ford Motor Company. He felt right at home near the blues venues and saloons on Hastings Street, the heart of black entertainment on Detroit's east side. In a city noted for its pianists, guitar players were scarce. Performing in Detroit clubs, his popularity grew quickly and, seeking a louder instrument than his crude acoustic guitar, he bought his first electric guitar.cite book|first=Terry|last=Wogan|authorlink=|coauthors=|year=1984|title=Shoes Off the Record|edition=|publisher=Da Capo Press|location=New York City, NY|pages=116–118|isbn=0-306-80321-6
Career
Hooker's recording career began in 1948 when his agent placed a demo, made by Hooker, with the Bihari brothers , owners of the Modern Records label. The company initially released an up-tempo number, " Boogie Chillen' ", which became Hooker's first hit single. Though they were not songwriters, the Biharis often purchased or claimed co-authorship of songs that appeared on their labels, thus securing songwriting royalties for themselves, in addition to their own streams of income.
Sometimes these songs were older tunes which Hooker renamed, as with B.B. King 's "Rock Me Baby", anonymous jams "B.B.'s Boogie" or songs by employees (bandleader Vince Weaver). The Biharis used a number of pseudonyms for songwriting credits: Jules was credited as Jules Taub ; Joe as Joe Josea ; and Sam as Sam Ling . One song by John Lee Hooker, "Down Child" is solely credited to "Taub", with Hooker receiving no credit for the song whatsoever. Another, "Turn Over a New Leaf" is credited to Hooker and "Ling".
In 1949, Hooker was recorded whilst performing in an informal setting for Detroit jazz enthusiasts, his repertoire included down-home and spiritual tunes which he would not record commercially.cite web|url= http://weeniecampbell.com/yabbse/index.php? topic=2505.msg18965#msg18965 |title=John Lee Hooker box sets starts with 1948 Detroit recordings |publisher=Weeniecampbell.com |date= |accessdate=2011-12-30 The recorded set has been made available in the album "Jack O'Diamonds".cite web|url= http://www.amazon.com/Jack-ODiamonds/dp/B001LJYCGW |title=Jack O'Diamonds: John Lee Hooker: MP3 Downloads |publisher=Amazon.com |date= |accessdate=2011-12-30
Despite being illiterate, Hooker 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"), he freely invented many of his songs from scratch. Recording studios in the 1950s rarely paid black musicians more than a pittance, so Hooker would spend the night wandering from studio to studio, coming up with new songs or variations on his songs for each studio. Because of his recording contract, he would record these songs under obvious pseudonyms such as John Lee Booker , notably for Chess Records and Chance Records in 1951/52,cite web|url= http://www.soulfulkindamusic.net/jlhooker.htm |title=Discography at |publisher=Soulfulkindamusic.net |date= |accessdate=2011-11-04 as Johnny Lee for De Luxe Records in 1953/54 as John Lee , and even John Lee Cooker ,Liner notes to Alternative Boogie: Early Studio Recordings, 1948-1952 . or as Texas Slim , Delta John , Birmingham Sam and his Magic Guitar , Johnny Williams , or The Boogie Man .Leadbitter, M. and Slaven, N. (1987). Blues Records 1943-1970: a selective discography . London: Record Information Services, pp. 579-595
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 often made it difficult to use backing musicians who were not accustomed to Hooker's musical vagaries. As a result, Besman would record Hooker, in addition to playing guitar and singing, stomping along with the music on a wooden pallet. Boogie Man p. 121. For much of this time period he recorded and toured with Eddie Kirkland , who was still performing as of 2008. Later sessions for the Vee-Jay Records|VeeJay label in Chicago used studio musicians on most of his recordings, including Eddie Taylor , who could handle his musical idiosyncrasies very well. His biggest UK hit, "Boom Boom", (originally released on VeeJay) was recorded with a horn section.
Later life
He appeared and sang in the 1980 movie The Blues Brothers (film)|The Blues Brothers . Due to Hooker's improvisational style, his performance was filmed and sound-recorded live at the scene at Chicago's Maxwell Street|Maxwell Street Market , in contrast to the usual "playback" technique used in most film musicals. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080455/trivia The Blues Brothers (1980) - Trivia. Hooker was also a direct influence in the look of John Belushi 's character Jake Blues.
In 1989, he joined with a number of musicians, including Carlos Santana and Bonnie Raitt to record The Healer (album)|The Healer , for which he and Santana won a Grammy Award . Hooker recorded several songs with Van Morrison , including "Never Get Out of These Blues Alive", " The Healing Game (song)|The Healing Game " and " I Cover the Waterfront (song)|I Cover the Waterfront ". He also appeared on stage with Van Morrison several times, some of which was released on the live album A Night in San Francisco . The same year he appeared as the title character on Pete Townshend 's The Iron Man: A Musical .
Hooker recorded over 100 albums. He lived the last years of his life in Long Beach, California.cite web|url= http://www.aaregistry.org/historic_events/view/john-lee-hooker-boogie-blues |title=African American Registry article "John Lee Hooker, Boogie with the Blues" |publisher=Aaregistry.org |date=1920-08-17 |accessdate=2011-11-04 In 1997, he opened a nightclub in San Francisco's Fillmore West|Fillmore District called "John Lee Hooker's Boom Boom Room", after one of his hits. http://www.dummies.com/WileyCDA/DummiesArticle/id-1131.html "Discovering the Blues of John Lee Hooker" Adapted from: Blues For Dummies , by Lonnie Brooks, Cub Koda, Wayne Baker Brooks, Dan Aykroyd, ISBN 0-7645-5080-2, August 1998.
He fell ill just before a tour of Europe in 2001 and died on June 21 at the age of 83, two months before his 84th birthday. His last live in the studio recording on guitar and vocal was of a song he wrote with Pete Sears called "Elizebeth", featuring members of his "Coast to Coast Blues Band" with Sears on piano. It was recorded on January 14, 1998 at Bayview Studios in Richmond, California. The last song Hooker recorded before his death was "Ali D'Oro", a collaboration with the Italian soul singer Zucchero , in which Hooker sang the chorus "I lay down with an angel". He was survived by eight children, nineteen grandchildren, eighteen great-grandchildren, a nephew, and fiance Sidora Dazi. One of his children is the musician John Lee Hooker, Jr.
Among his many awards, Hooker has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and in 1991 he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame . Two of his songs, "Boogie Chillen" and "Boom Boom" were included in 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 . He was also inducted in 1980 into the Blues Hall of Fame . In 2000, Hooker was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award .
Music
Hooker's guitar playing is closely aligned with piano Boogie-woogie (music)|boogie-woogie . He would play the walking bass pattern with his thumb, stopping to emphasize the end of a line with a series of Trill (music)|trills , done by rapid hammer-on s and pull-off s. The songs that most epitomize his early sound are "Boogie Chillen", about being 17 and wanting to go out to dance at the Boogie clubs, " Baby, Please Don't Go ", a blues standard first recorded by Big Joe Williams , and "Tupelo Blues", http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=7GOCAC8FCqE YouTube - John Lee Hooker - 'Tupelo' (1995). a stunningly sad song about the flooding of Tupelo, Mississippi in April 1936.
He maintained a solo career, popular with blues and folk music fans of the early 1960s and crossed over to white audiences, giving an early opportunity to the young Bob Dylan . As he got older, he added more and more people to his band, changing his live show from simply Hooker with his guitar to a large band, with Hooker singing.
His vocal phrasing was less closely tied to specific bars than most blues singers. This casual, rambling style had been gradually diminishing with the onset of electric blues bands from Chicago but, even when not playing solo, Hooker retained it in his sound.
Though Hooker lived in Detroit during most of his career, he is not associated with the Chicago-style blues prevalent in large northern cities, as much as he is with the southern rural blues styles, known as delta blues , country blues , folk blues , or "front porch blues". His use of an electric guitar tied together the Delta blues with the emerging post-war electric blues. http://www.rhino.com/RZine/StoryKeeper.lasso? StoryID=203 Rhino - John Lee Hooker (1917-2001) - Rzine #203.
His songs have been covered by Buddy Guy , Cream (band)|Cream , AC/DC , ZZ Top , Led Zeppelin , Tom Jones (singer)|Tom Jones , Jimi Hendrix , Eric Clapton , Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds , Van Morrison , The Yardbirds , The Animals , The Doors , The White Stripes , MC5 , George Thorogood , R. L. Burnside , The J. Geils Band , The Gories , Cat Power , and The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion .
Awards and recognition
A Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1980
Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991
Inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends online Hall of Fame in 2007. http://www.michiganrockandrolllegends.com/mrrl-hall-of-fame/94-john-lee-hooker
Grammy Awards :
Best Traditional Blues Album|Best Traditional Blues Recording , 1990 for ''I'm in the Mood (with Bonnie Raitt )
Best Traditional Blues Album|Best Traditional Blues Recording , 1998 for '' Don't Look Back (John Lee Hooker album)|Don't Look Back
Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals , 1998, " Don't Look Back (John Lee Hooker song)|Don't Look Back " (with Van Morrison )
Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000
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 .
Discography
Singles
Hooker issued a large number of singles, with almost a hundred releases by 1960. http://web.telia.com/~u19104970/johnnielee1.html#singles John Lee Hooker - The World´s Greatest Blues Singer - cont´d (page 1).
Here are ten of his early classic recordings:
Detroit September 1948 - Boogie Chillen' - Modern 627 (11/48) R& B #1 (Crown LP "The Blues")
Detroit September 1948 - Hobo Blues - Modern 663 (3/49) R& B #5 (Crown LP "The Blues")
Detroit September 1948 - Crawling King Snake - Modern 714 (10/49) R& B #6 (Crown LP "The Blues")
Detroit August 7, 1951 - I'm In the Mood - Modern 835 (9/51) R& B #1 (Crown LP "The Blues")
Detroit Early 1955 - The Syndicator b/w Hug And Squeeze - Modern 966 (8/55) (Crown LP "Sings The Blues")
Chicago March 17, 1956 - Dimples (song)|Dimple s - Vee-Jay 205 (8/56) (VJ LP "I'm John Lee Hooker")
Chicago June 10, 1958 - I Love You Honey - Vee-Jay 293 (9/58) R& B #29 (VJ LP "I'm John Lee Hooker")
Chicago March 1, 1960 - No Shoes - Vee-Jay 349 (4/60) R& B#21 (VJ LP "Travelin'")
Chicago Late 1961 - Boom Boom (John Lee Hooker song)|Boom Boom - Vee-Jay 438 (4/62) R& B #16 (VJ LP "Burnin'")
Chicago Mid 1964 - It Serves You Right (To Suffer) - Vee-Jay 708 (11/65) (VJ/Dynasty LP "In Person")
Albums
Listed below are the original albums with notable reissues.
THE DETROIT YEARS (recordings 1948-1955)
1959 - House Of The Blues ( Chess Records|Chess )
1960 - The Blues (Crown) early Modern tracks
1961 - Sings The Blues (Crown) - Modern tracks
1961 - Plays And Sings The Blues ( Chess Records|Chess ) 1950-52 tracks
1961 - Sings Blues (King)- reissued as "Moanin' and Stompin'", and "Don't You Remember Me", Texas Slim 1948-50 tracks
1962 - Folk Blues (Crown) - Modern tracks
1963 - The Great John Lee Hooker (Crown) - Modern tracks
1963 - ''Don't Turn Me from Your Door (Atco) 1953 and 1961 recordings
1963 - John Lee Hooker & Big Maceo Merriweather (Fortune)
1981 - Blues For Big Town ( Chess Records|Chess ) - v.a. compilation featuring unissued early 1950s
1987 - Gotham Golden Classics - Rare Recordings (Collectables)
1987 - Detroit Blues (Krazy Kat)
1989 - 40th Anniversary Album (DCC) - reissued on Eiropean Demon as Detroit Lion
1990 - Boogie Awhile (Krazy Kat 2-LP)
1999 - Savoy Blues Legends, 1948-1949 (SavoyJazz/Atlantic) - reissued on Savoy
2000 - The Unknown John Lee Hooker (Krazy Kat) - 1951 tracks, reissued as "Jack 0'Diamonds" (Eagle, 2004)
THE CHICAGO YEARS
1959 - ''I'm John Lee Hooker (Vee-Jay)
1960 - Travelin (Vee-Jay)
1961 - The Folk Lore of John Lee Hooker (Vee-Jay)
1962 - Burnin (Vee-Jay)
1962 - The Big Soul of John Lee Hooker ( Vee-Jay Records|Vee Jay )
1962 - The Best of John Lee Hooker ( Vee-Jay Records|Vee Jay ) - compilation
1963 - John Lee Hooker On Campus ( Vee-Jay Records|Vee Jay ) - ("I Want To Shout The Blues" on European Stateside) - reissued as "Big Band Blues" (Buddah Records)
1965 - ... And Seven Nights (Verve-Folkways) British recordings of 1964 (re-issued with brass overdub as "On The Waterfront" on Wand) - and reissued in several versions later
1965 - ''Is He The World's Greatest Blues Singer? ( Vee-Jay Records|Vee Jay ) compilation - reissued on Exodus
1974 - Gold ( Vee-Jay Records|Vee Jay ) - compilation comprisising "I'm John Lee Hooker" and "The Big Soul of"
1974 - In Person (VeeJay/Dynasty) late Vee-Jay tracks
1989 - The Hook - 20 Years of Hits & Hot Boogie (Chameleon) Vee-Jay license compilation
1993 - John Lee Hooker on Vee-Jay 1955-1958 (VeeJay) compilation
THE FOLK YEARS (recordings 1959-1963)
1959 - The Country Blues of John Lee Hooker ( Riverside Records|Riverside ) - reissued as "How Long Blues" (Battle, 1963)
1960 - '' That's My Story - JLH Sings the Blues ( Riverside Records|Riverside ) - reissued as "The Blues Man" (Battle, 1963)
1962 - John Lee Hooker ( Galaxy Records|Galaxy ) - reissued as "The King of Folk Blues" (America)
1963 - Live At Sugar Hill (Galaxy)
1964 - Burning Hell ( Riverside Records|Riverside ) recorded 1959
1964 - Concert At Newport ( Vee-Jay Records|Vee Jay ) - reissued with bonus tracks as "Live At Newport" (Fantasy)
1966 - ''Teachin' The Blues (Guest Star) half an LP of recordings from 1961
1969 - ''That's Where It's At! (Stax) recordings of 1961
1971 - Detroit Special (Atlantic) compilation ("Don't Turn Me From Your Door" plus bonus tracks)
1972 - Boogie Chillun (Fantasy) ("Live at Sugar Hill" plus bonus tracks) - reissued on Ace as "Live at Sugar Hill Vol. 1 & 2"
1972 - Black Snake (Fantasy 2-set) - reissue of Riverside's "The Country Blues" and "That's My Story"
1979 - ''Sittin' Here Thinkin (Muse) - reissued as "Sad And Lonesome" (Savoy recordings of 1961)
2002 - Live At Sugar Hill, Vol. 2 (Fantasy) unissued recordings from 1961 (featuring a "third session")
THE ABC YEARS (recordings 1965-1974)
1966 - It Serves You Right to Suffer ( Impulse& #33; Records )
1966 - The Real Folk Blues ( Chess Records|Chess ) new Chicago recordings
1967 - Live at the Café Au Go-Go ( Bluesway )
1967 - Urban Blues ( Bluesway )
1968 - On The Waterfront (Wand) (... And Seven Nights" with brass overdub)
1969 - Simply The Truth ( Bluesway )
1969 - ''If You Miss 'Im ... I Got 'Im ( Bluesway )
1970 - I Wanna Dance All Night (America) Europe recordings - reissued with the next as "Black Rhythm 'n' Blues" (Festival)
1970 - I Feel Good (Carson) Europe recordings - reissued on Jewel (1972)
1971 - Get Back Home In The USA (Black & Blue) Europe recordings - reissued with bonus tracks as "Get Back Home"
1971 - '' Hooker 'n Heat (Liberty) - reissued as "Infinite Boogie" (Rhino)
1991 - More Real Folk Blues - The Missing Album ( Chess Records|Chess ) - also issued with "The Real Folk Blues" as "The Complete Chess Folk Blues Sessions"
THE ROSEBUD YEARS (recordings 1975-2001)
1976 - Alone Vol 1 (Labor) live - reissued on Tomato
1976 - Alone - Live in New York Vol 2 (MMG) - reissued on Tomato
1978 - Live + Well ( Ornament Records|Ornament )
1978 - The Cream (Tomato) live recordings - reissued with bonus tracks on Charly
1979 - Live in 1978 (Lunar)
1981 - ''Hooker 'n' Heat Recorded Live at the Fox Venice Theatre (Rhino, various artists)
1986 - Jealous (Pulsa) - reissued on Pointblank 1996 - and on Shout!Factory with bonus tracks
1989 - The Healer (album)|The Healer (Chameleon)
1990 - The Hot Spot (Featuring Miles Davis)
1991 - Mr. Lucky (John Lee Hooker album)|Mr. Lucky (Pointblank)
1992 - Boom Boom (Pointblank) - reissued on Shout!Factory with bonus tracks
1995 - Chill Out (Pointblank) - reissued on Shout!Factory with bonus tracks
1997 - '' Don't Look Back (John Lee Hooker album)|Don't Look Back (Pointblank/ Virgin Records|Virgin ) - reissued on Shout!Factory with bonus tracks
1998 - The Best of Friends (Pointblank) compilation 1986-1998 incl one new track - reissued on Shout!Factory download with bonus track
2003 - Face to Face (Eagle) new recordings
Compilations
1990 - ''That's My Story/The Folk Blues of (Ace) - the two original Riverside LPs on one CD
1990 - ''That's Where It's At (Stax) reissue of Florida recordings from 1961
1991 - The Ultimate Collection (John Lee Hooker album)|The Ultimate Collection 1948-1990 (Rhino 2CDbox)
1991 - Half A Stranger (Mainstream) Modern tracks 1948-1955 incl unedited masters
1991 - Free Beer And Chicken (BeatGoesOn/MCA) recorded 1974
1991 - ''Don't Turn Me From Your Door (Atlantic/Atco) 1953 and 1961 (incl the bonus tracks)
1992 - Graveyard Blues (Specialty/Ace) 1948-1950 Besman/Sensation tracks
1992 - The Best of John Lee Hooker 1965 to 1974 (Universal) Impulse and ABC/Bluesway recordings
1993 - ''Everybody's Blues (Specialty/Ace) Besman tracks of 1950-51 plus two 1954 sessions direct for Specialty
1993 - The Legendary Modern Recordings 1948-1954 (Flair/Ace) the original singles
1994 - The Boogie Man (Charly DIG 5) anthology box featuring 1948-1966 (excluding Modern)
1995 - Alternative Boogie - Early Studio Recordings, 1948-1952 (Capitol 3CD) Besman alternates
1995 - The Gold Collection - 40 Classic Performances (Retro) 2 CD set Made in Italy by Phonocomp
1996 - Live at the Café Au Go-Go (and Soledad Prison) (Universal) 1966 with Muddy Waters' band and 1972
1998 - ''The Complete 50's Chess Recordings (Chess 2CD) anthology featuring the tracks from "House of the Blues" and "Plays and Sings the Blues" (1951–52) plus several bonus tracks from Fortune 1954 incl "Blues For Big Town"
2000 - The Complete 1964 recordings (RPM) last Vee-Jay session 1964 plus British London recordings - the British tracks reissued with brass overdubs as "The London 1965 Sessions" on Sequel
2000 - ''I'm John Lee Hooker (Charly -with bonus tracks) his very first LP, 1955-1959 recordings - reissued on SNAP in 2003 and without bonus tracks on Shout!Factory in 2007
2000 - Travelin (Charly -with bonus tracks) the great LP session of 1960- reissued on SNAP in 2003
2000 - The Folk Lore of John Lee Hooker (Charly -with bonus tracks) his third VJ LP - reissued on SNAP in 2003
2000 - Burnin (Charly -with bonus tracks) the fourth VJ LP, 1962 - reissued on SNAP in 2003
2000 - The Complete - Vol. 1 1948-49 Body & Soul 2CD
2000 - The Complete - Vol. 2 1949 Body & Soul 2CD
2001 - The Complete - Vol. 3 1949-50 Body & Soul 2CD
2001 - House Rent Boogie (Ace) Modern compilation of rare early 1950s recordings
2001 - Testament - 3CDbox featuring some of the very best Vee-Jay recordings (Charly/Snapper)
2002 - The Complete - Vol. 4 1950-51 Body & Soul 2CD
2002 - The Real Folk Blues|The Real Folk Blues/More Real Folk Blues (Chess) 1966 recordings; reissue of the 1991 CD "The Complete Chess Folk Blues Sessions"
2002 - Giant of Blues (FruitTree 2CD) Charly license featuring 20 of the "Testament" tracks
2003 - Blues Kingpins - Blues Immortal (Virgin) 1948-1955 Modern anthology
2004 - Early Years - The Classic Savoy Sessions (Metro Doubles 2CD) recorded 1948 and 1961 - comprising the tracks from "Savoy Blues Legends" (Savoy in 1999 and 2003) and the 1961 Savoy recordings from "Sittin' Here Thinkin'" (32Blues in 2004 with the bonus track)
2004 - ''I'm A Boogie Man (Varése Sarabande) Vintage 1948 - 1953 Texas Slim and John Lee Booker (King/De Luxe tracks featuring all the King singles)
2004 - The Complete - Vol. 5 1951-53 Body & Soul 2CD
2005 - The Complete - Vol. 6 1953-54 Body & Soul 2CD
2005 - Blues Is The Healer (Membran), 149 songs from the early years in a German 10 CD box set
John Lee Hooker Rare Performances 1960 - 1984 DVD (2002)
John Lee Hooker - Bits and pieces about ... DVD + CD (2006)
Notes
Reflist
References
Boogie Man: Adventures of John Lee Hooker in the American 20th Century , by Charles Shaar Murray , ISBN 0-14-016890-7.
''John Lee Hooker – That's My Story ; Documentary by Jörg Bundschuh
''The Guinness Who's Who of Blues Edited by Colin Larkin. Second Edition 1995. Guinness Publishing Ltd ISBN 0-85112-673.
External links
commonscat|John Lee Hooker
imdb name|0393631|John Lee Hooker
Official website|1= http://www.johnleehooker.com
http://rateyourmusic.com/artist/john_lee_hooker Discography and album ratings
http://www.angelfire.com/mn/coasters/johnnielee.html John Lee Hooker Resource Page The World's Greatest Blues Singer (with Session Discography and Year-by-Year Recap)
http://www.blues.org/halloffame/inductees.php4? YearId=25 John Lee Hooker 1980 Blues Foundation Induction into Hall of Fame
http://www.boomboomblues.com/ The Boom Boom Room San Francisco nightclub founded by Hooker
Persondata | NAME = Hooker, John Lee | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist | DATE OF BIRTH = August 22, 1917 | PLACE OF BIRTH = Coahoma County, Mississippi , United States | DATE OF DEATH = June 21, 2001 | PLACE OF DEATH = Los Altos, California , United States DEFAULTSORT:Hooker, John Lee Category:1917 births Category:2001 deaths Category:People from Coahoma County, Mississippi Category:African American guitarists Category:African American musicians Category:African American singer-songwriters Category:American blues guitarists Category:American blues singer-songwriters Category:American blues singers Category:American male singers Category:Blues Hall of Fame inductees Category:Blues musicians from Mississippi Category:Musicians from Tennessee Category:Blues revival musicians Category:Modern Records artists Category:Kent Records artists Category:Flair Records artists Category:Vee-Jay Records artists Category:Chess Records artists Category:Charly Records artists Category:Specialty Records artists Category:Country blues musicians Category:Detroit blues musicians Category:Electric blues musicians Category:Grammy Award winners Category:Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners Category:National Heritage Fellowship winners Category:Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees?
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