![]() Hooker’s stepfather, William Moore, taught him to play guitar when he was around 12 years old. 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). Yet his voice is quiet and muted, its tonal richness offset by a residual stammer and blurred by the deepest alluvial accents of the Mississippi Delta.”īorn in Coahoma County, Mississippi, Hooker rose to prominence with his own adaptation of Delta blues that incorporated electric guitar, and sometimes other elements like talking blues and early North Mississippi Hill country blues. In the biography Boogie Man: The Adventures of John Lee Hooker in the American Twentieth Century, author Charles Shaar Murray states, “Hooker sounds as if he has $100,000 worth of sophisticated digital goodies built in his chest and his throat. ![]() John Lee Hooker, born in 1915, found refuge in music at an early age as he struggled with stuttering from childhood. ![]()
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