Earl Hooker

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Earl Hooker (born January 15, 1929 or 1930 in Clarksdale , Mississippi , † April 21, 1970 in Chicago , Illinois ), full name Earl Zebedee Hooker , was an American blues musician and a cousin of the blues legend John Lee Hooker . He started playing the guitar at the age of 10 and attended the Lyon and Healy School of Music in Chicago in 1941 . In the mid-1940s he took guitar lessons from Robert Nighthawk . In October 1969 he came to Europe as part of a tour with the American Folk Blues Festival . However, this tour seemed to have physically overwhelmed him, as Hooker was hospitalized in Chicago in November and December 1969 after a few appearances, where he then died of complications from his tuberculosis disease. He is buried in Chicago.

Discography

  • Two Bugs And A Roach, Arhoolie (1966)
  • The Genius Of Earl Hooker, Cucu (1969)
  • Don't Have To Worry, Bluesway (1969)
  • Sweet Black Angel, One Way (1970)
  • Funk Last Of the Great Earl Hooker, Blues On Blues (1972)
  • There's A Fungus Amung Us , Red Lightnin '(1972)
  • Do You Remember The Great Earl Hooker, Bluesway (1973)
  • Hooker N 'Steve, Arhoolie (1975)
  • Leading Brand, Red Lightnin '(1978)
  • Blue Guitar, P-Vine (1981)
  • Play Your Guitar Mr. Hooker !, Black Top Records (1985)
  • His First And Last Recordings, Arhoolie (1986)
  • Calling All Blues, Charly (1986)
  • Smooth Slidin, CLP (1998)
  • Moon Is Rising, Arhoolie (1998)
  • Chicago Blues Guitar Genius, P-Vine (1998)
  • Simply The Best: Earl Hooker Collection, MCA (1999)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Earl Hooker at allmusic.com
  2. ↑ "Earl Hooker: Blues Master." Sebastian Danchin (2001). University Press of Mississippi

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personal data
SURNAME Hooker, Earl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hooker, Earl Zebedee (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American blues musician
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1929 or January 15, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Clarksdale , Mississippi
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1970
Place of death Chicago , Illinois