John Lee Hooker
Born
August 22, 1912 in Tutwiler, Mississippi, USA
Died
June 21, 2001
Popularity
1.0163
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.