About John Lee Hooker:
John Lee Hooker 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.
The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.
John Lee HookerSince you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em.
John Lee HookerI like dropping into a small club and playing with some people, trying to help them get a start.
John Lee Hooker