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John Lee Hooker

Blues
Jazz
Blues rock
One of the great Delta blues stylists, John Lee Hooker's idiosyncratic influence extended well into the rock era, inspiring bands like the Rolling Stones and the Yardbirds and even earning him a hit single with the classic Boom Boom. The youngest of 11 children raised by a southern sharecropper, Hooker's earliest musical inspiration came from the spirituals he heard in church and he was introduced to the guitar by his blues playing stepfather William Moore. He ran away from home at 15, drifting around until 1948 when he arrived in Detroit (aged 36), where he bought his first elec...
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Boom BoomJohn Lee Hooker
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One Bourbon, One Scotch, One BeerJohn Lee Hooker
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I'm In The MoodJohn Lee Hooker
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Highway 49John Lee Hooker and Big Joe Williams
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Chill Out (Things Gonna Change)John Lee Hooker
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Healer 

DVD

John Lee Hooker and Carlos Santana
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Boom BoomJohn Lee Hooker

Burnin'

2:31

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One Bourbon, One Scotch, One BeerJohn Lee Hooker

Free Beer and Chicken

2:59

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I'm In The MoodJohn Lee Hooker

I'm John Lee Hooker

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Highway 49John Lee Hooker and Big Joe Williams

Po' Joe

3:15

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Chill Out (Things Gonna Change)John Lee Hooker

Chill Out

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Healer 

DVD

John Lee Hooker and Carlos Santana

The Best of Friends

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