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John Lee Hooker
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...
