John Lee Hooker
(August 22, 1912 or 1917– June 21, 2001)
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
that he developed
in Detroit.
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.
Hooker was ranked 35th
in Rolling Stone's
2015 list
of
100 greatest guitarists,
and has been cited
as one of the
greatest male
blues vocalists
of all time.
