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John Lee Hooker
Acting
22 Aug 1912
† 21 Jun 2001
Tutwiler, Mississippi, USA
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.





















