John Lee Hooker

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John Lee Hooker

Communications

#1554

World Rank

#2319

Historical Rank

#744

USA Rank

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Why Is John Lee Hooker Influential?

According to Wikipedia, 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 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 35 in Rolling Stones 2015 list of 100 greatest guitarists.

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