John Lee Hooker

This article is about the blues musician John Lee Hooker Sr., born in 1917 . See John Lee Hooker Jr. for his son of the same name, the blues singer born in 1952.

John Lee Hooker, Long Beach Blues Festival , August 31, 1997

John Lee Hooker (* possibly on 22. August 1917 in or near Clarksdale ( Mississippi ); † 21st June 2001 in Los Altos ( California ) was an influential American blues singer ., Songwriter and guitarist Hooker is considered a representative of the Delta Blues , which he performed mostly with electric guitar in his unmistakable style. His musical career spanned more than five decades. His most famous pieces include the titles Boogie Chillen ' (1948), Crawling King Snake (1949), Dimples (1956), Boom Boom ( 1962), One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer (1966) and The Healer (1989).

Life

Childhood and youth

Hooker's year of birth is not clear. He himself named 1915, 1917, 1920 and 1923 as the year of birth. His biographer Charles Shaar Murray considers 1917 to be correct. In a 1993 Spiegel interview, Hooker said that he falsified his date of birth so that he could join the army: he was born in 1920.

Hooker was born on a farm near Clarksdale and was one of eleven children of William Hooker (born about 1865) and Minnie Ramsey (born about 1875). Hooker's father William was a farmer, more specifically sharecroppers ( sharecropper ), and by the way a preacher and pastor of the Macedonian church at the site. As a child, John Lee Hooker sang in the gospel choir.

Blues musician Tony Hollins dated Hooker's sister Alice for a while. He gave the eight-year-old John Lee a guitar, a Silvertone, which he studied extensively. This guitar led to a conflict with Hooker's father who would not allow him to bring it into the house. It had to be kept in the barn. Hooker's father called the blues "devil music". Hooker skipped school and instead practiced the guitar in the woods. He could neither read nor write all his life. Hooker was quite short for his age and stuttered all his life.

After his parents divorced, his mother married the farmer William Moore. Hooker was the only one of his siblings to move in with his mother. His stepfather made blues himself and supported him musically. He encouraged the young John Lee to be interested in other styles of music besides choral singing and gave him his second guitar. Hooker learned to play the guitar from his stepfather, who was frequently visited by blues singers like Blind Lemon Jefferson , Charley Patton and Blind Blake . Hooker once said in an interview that his stepfather brought him to his own distinctive style: "[...] what I play today is exactly his style." How great his stylistic influence was can no longer be traced, since Moore has no recordings. Robert Palmer considers Hooker to be part of the Delta Blues tradition .

The young Hooker refused the hard farm labor. By 1933, when Hooker was about 16 years old, he ran away from home and went to Memphis, where he lived with an aunt for some time. After a brief return to Mississippi, he left his family for good and never saw his parents or stepfather again.

At a young age, Hooker moved to the southern states to make a living from his music. Except for the acquaintance with the guitarist Robert Nighthawk , the time in Memphis was not very fruitful for Hooker, so he set off further north to Cincinnati ( Ohio ). There he got by with a few appearances in gospel quartets and odd jobs .

1943 married Hooker and moved to Detroit ( Michigan ), where he at Ford had gotten a job as a janitor.

Marriages and children

John Lee Hooker was married four times and had a total of 8 children. In the early 1940s he married Alma Hopes and with her he had a daughter named Frances. The marriage ended in divorce after a few months. He then marries Sarah Jones. This marriage was also short-lived.

In 1946 he married Maude Mathis. She gave birth to daughter Diane in 1946. Vera followed in 1948, who later called herself Zakiya. She is a blues and jazz singer. 1952 came his son John Lee Jr. to the world, who later became a blues musician himself. In 1953 Robert was born. He too became a musician and accompanied his father on the organ on the LP Never get out of these Blues alive (1972). Robert Hooker later became a preacher and left the music business. The youngest daughter was named Karen. In total, Hooker had 6 children with Maude Mathis. The sometimes turbulent marriage was divorced in 1969 after 23 years.

Around 1976, Hooker married Millie Strom, a Canadian. The marriage ended in divorce after a few years.

Career

John Lee Hooker: Boogie Chilling ' , 1948

The beginning in Detroit (1937 to 1954)

Hooker had made his first appearance in Detroit in 1937 at a club on Hastings Street. T-Bone Walker , who liked to call Hooker the "kid", gave him the first electric guitar in 1940. After a few non-commercial attempts at recording, he played a total of 10 tracks on September 3, 1948 in United Sound Studio , including Boogie Chillen ' , Sally May (or Sally Mae ), Highway Blues and Wednesday Evening Blues , all produced by Bernard Besman. Sally May and Boogie Chillen were featured on the first single , released on November 3, 1948 (Modern # 627). The sound engineer for the song with the typical guitar staccatos and unusual foot-stamping was Joe Siracuse ; Hooker only accompanied himself on guitar. The first three tracks used up a large part of the three hours of recording time, so Boogie Chillen ' came about under time pressure. Boogie Chillen was # 1 on the Billboard R&B chart for a week on February 19, 1949 and was the first hit for John Lee Hooker and the Detroit studio with a million records sold.

Hooker's biographer Charles Shaar Murray describes in detail how the contracts between the musicians and the music publishers at the time were designed in such a way that the record sales resulted in almost no income for the artists. Hooker hardly earned anything from his hit Boogie Chillen . Therefore, he recorded the same tracks several times under different pseudonyms on different record labels. He called himself Texas Slim, Johnny Williams, Birmingham Sam and his Magic Guitar, The Boogie Man, Delta John, Johnny Williams, Little Pork Chops and John Lee Booker, among others. The producer Besman later made Hooker the condition for the termination of the contract that Besman received half of the royalties by registering himself as a co-composer on all recorded titles - a business practice that was common in the music industry at the time.

The second session with Hooker and the producer Besman took place on 18./19. February 1949 (Weeping Willow Boogie, Hobo Blues and Crawling King Snake) . Hooker's I'm in the Mood was recorded on August 7, 1951, was at the top for four weeks and also reached million seller status. In 1952 and most recently in 1954 there were further recording sessions at United Sound, where the most important music-historically of the more than 200 songs by Hookers from the early years were created.

With his mixture of song and language and the infectious beats he hit the taste of the black record buyers of the time. Then there was his electrically amplified guitar, with which he created a new and trend-setting sound. Also new were his instrumental pieces, which he played on his guitar, only accompanied by the clicking of the bottle caps under the soles of his shoes. Hooker mostly played solo during this period. From time to time he was accompanied by musicians like Eddie Burns , Boogie Woogie Red or Eddie Kirkland .

His style also includes the song lyrics, which often do not rhyme even when the rhyme seems almost inevitable. For example, his song I'm in the Mood says:

"Everytime I see you, baby, walking down the street,
know I get a thrill now, baby, from my head down to my toes (instead of feet ) "

In the following years his popularity grew through numerous recordings and tours. At the beginning of the 1950s, however, a career break followed. He was pushed into the background by musicians like BB King , for example , who had more sophisticated playing technique.

Middle phase (1954 to 1980)

He made a comeback in the mid-1950s. With Jimmy Reed (guitar), Eddie Taylor (harmonica), George Washington (bass) and Tom Whitehead (drums) he had a strong backing band. Then, towards the end of the 1950s, when the blues increasingly aroused the interest of students and intellectuals, John Lee Hooker moved into the spotlight among young whites. Initially, these circles were interested in one of the most original varieties of blues, country blues . This prompted numerous blues musicians to return to the roots of their music, Hooker among them. Recordings such as The Folk Blues of John Lee Hooker (1959) and The Folklore of John Lee Hooker (1961) date from this period .

In the early 1960s, Hooker also gained more and more attention in the pop world. In the wake of the rhythm and blues boom in England, it even made it into the pop hit parades. In 1967 the controversial band MC 5 landed a hit with The Motor City Is Burning from Hooker's album Urban Blues . This led Hooker to try his hand at rock music as well. So Hooker combined blues and rock music on the studio album Endless Boogie , released in 1970 . Steve Miller plays the electric guitar on numerous pieces.

With Canned Heat as a backing band, Hooker recorded the LP Hooker 'n Heat in 1971 , which includes the well-known track The World Today . Hooker influenced many artists in his long career, including The Doors , The Rolling Stones , the Steve Miller Band (1971 backing group Hookers) and the Yardbirds . He also worked with many, especially often and intensively with the Irish singer Van Morrison . Both musicians had been friends since the 1960s and valued each other's music very much. In 1972 Hooker released the rock album Never Get Out of These Blues Alive , in which u. a. Starring Elvin Bishop, Charlie Musselwhite and Steve Miller. In a duet with Morrison, he sings the title-giving piece Never Get Out of These Blues Alive, which is over 10 minutes long .

John Lee Hooker performed in Toronto in 1978

Towards the end of the 1970s all was quiet about John Lee Hooker. Although he still appeared regularly and worked on a few films (including you can see and hear him in the cult film Blues Brothers with Boogie Chillun and Boom Boom), he almost completely disappeared from the public eye.

The late work (1980 to 2001)

In 1980 Hooker was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame , and in 2009 his song Boom Boom, first recorded in 1961, received this honor.

For the feature film Die Farbe Lila , he recorded the title Don't Make Me No Never Mind with Quincy Jones in 1985 .

Hooker produced the album Jealous in 1982 , which was only released in 1986 by the small record label Pausa (re-release on Pointblank 1998). For Charles Shaar Murray this record was “an impressive attempt to bring the elementary Hooker sound up to date”. The album still sold poorly.

According to Shaar Murray, Hooker's comeback began with a single song: The Healer , a collaboration between Hooker and Carlos Santana , which was recorded on April 25, 1988. This came about through the activities of Mike Kappus , a music manager and record producer born in 1950 who was the production manager for the album The Healer . The producer was Roy Rogers. Kappus, Rogers and Hooker founded their own production company to produce the album. Kappus organized the collaboration of the various musicians on this album, including Bonnie Raitt , George Thorogood , Charlie Musselwhite , Robert Cray , Los Lobos , Canned Heat and Carlos Santana. All the songs on the album were written by Hooker or were created in collaboration with Hooker and other artists.

The Healer stayed in the US charts for almost 40 weeks and reached number 62. Hooker - now 72 years old - received on February 21, 1990 for I'm in the Mood, his duet with Bonnie Raitt, in the category “ Best Traditional Blues Recording "a Grammy . He won a total of 4 Grammys with his album The Healer . The enormous success of the song and the album of the same name meant that Hooker was able to claim a multiple of the fee than before in his career.

In the same year, Hooker was honored by a number of well-known musicians, including Albert Collins , Joe Cocker , Bo Diddley , Huey Lewis and Little Feat , who performed at a blues festival in New York's Madison Square Garden at a concert entitled "A Tribute to John Lee Hooker ”.

Hooker was in 1989 on the album The Iron Man by Pete Townshend to hear. There he took over the part of Iron Man . The following year, the album Mr. Lucky was released in collaboration with Van Morrison, Keith Richards , Johnny Winter and Robert Cray . The producers were Ry Cooder, Mike Kappus, Roy Rogers and Carlos Santana.

In 1992 Hooker switched to the small British "point blank" label and this time played the album Boom Boom with only a few session musicians (Robert Cray, Charlie Musselwhite, Fabulous Thunderbird, Jimmie Vaughan and John Hammond) . The title song is a remake of his hit from the 1960s and was also used in a commercial for a blue jeans brand.

On the album Blues Summit (1993) by BB King Hooker took part, although the two musicians differed greatly in style. Nevertheless, King's manager Sid Seidenberg was able to persuade the two to work together.

The album Don't Look Back (1997), co-produced by Van Morrison and Mike Kappus, won a Grammy for Best Traditional Blues Album . Morrison sings four duets with Hooker here.

John Lee Hooker died in his sleep on Thursday June 21, 2001. He had been on stage for the last time five days earlier. Hooker is said to have created more than 500 songs over the course of his fifty-year career.

Instruments and equipment

Hooker got his first guitar - a Silvertone acoustic guitar - from a friend of his sister's. He played the first recordings and appearances with a Stella acoustic guitar and a pickup.

John Lee Hooker mostly played semi-resonant guitars of the Gibson ES-335 type . This type also includes the Epiphone Sheraton model , from which the guitar manufacturer produced a signature model “The Boogie Man”. In the early 1960s he also played an Epiphone Zephyr.

He mostly used Fender amplifiers.

Prizes and awards

Hooker was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1980 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991. In his acceptance speech he said that he was very happy about this gift and he promised his audience that he would be there for them until the end of his life and play the blues for them.

He received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000 and has had a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame since 2010 . His two songs Boogie Chillen and Boom Boom were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's list of 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll .

The Rolling Stone listed Hooker 35th of the 100 best guitarists and 81st of the 100 best singers of all time .

Discography (selection)

The compilation of a discography of Hooker's life's work is difficult, since he has appeared under several pseudonyms and has recorded for several record companies (including Modern, King, Danceland, Regent, Savoy, Vee-Jay) in parallel. The most important musicological titles are mentioned here.

Singles

A side	B side	Recording date	Label, single	annotation
Boogie chilling '	Sally Mae	3rd Sep 1947	Modern # 627	-
Hobo blues	Hoogie Boogie	3rd Sep 1948 / Feb. 19, 1949	Modern # 663	see also Hobo
Black Man Blues	Stomp boogie	Nov. 1948	King # 4283	as Texas Slim
Goin 'mad blues	Helpless blues	Nov. 1948	Regent # 1001	as Delta John
Weeping Willow Boogie	Whistlin 'And Moanin' Blues	July 1949 / February 19, 1949	Modern # 668	-
The Numbers	Devil's Jump	3rd Sep 1948 / Aug 1949	King # 4315	-
Crawlin 'King Snake	Driftin 'From Door To Door	3rd Sep 1948	Modern # 714	-
Huckle up baby	Canal Street Blues	Feb. 27, 1950 / Dec. 1949	Sensation # 26	-
Heart Trouble Blues	Slim's stomp	Sep 1949	King # 4329	-
Wandering blues	Don't go baby	Aug 1949	King # 4334	as Texas Slim
No friend around	Wednesday evening	Dec 1949	Modern # 746	-
Don't you remember me	Late last night	March 1950 / August 1949	King # 4366	as Texas Slim
Rock'n roll	Give Me Your Phone Number	Apr 28, 1950	(Modern # 767)	-
Wandering blues	John L's House Rent Boogie	Oct. 1950 / Nov. 16, 1950	Staff # 710	as Johnny Williams and his Guitar; see Rent-Party
Let your daddy ride	One more time	Feb. 8, 1950 / April 28, 1950	(Modern # 790)
Notoriety Woman	Never satisfied	Apr 28, 1950	Shelf # 3304	-
Leave My Wife Alone	Ramblin 'by Myself	Apr 26, 1951	Chess # 1467	as John Lee Booker
I'm in the mood	How Can You Do It	Aug 7, 1951	Modern # 835	-
Ground hog blues	Louise	Apr 26, 1951	Chess # 1482	as John Lee Booker
Anybody Seen My Baby	Turn Over a New Leaf	Aug 7, 1951	Modern # 847	-
High Priced Woman	Union Station Blues	Apr 26, 1951	Chess # 1505	as Johnny Lee Hooker
It hurts me so	I got my eye on you	May 22, 1952	Modern # 876	-
Key to the Highway	Bluebird blues	May 22, 1952	Modern # 886	-
It's been a long time baby	Rock House Boogie	December 3, 1952	Modern # 897
Stuttering blues	Pouring down rain	Aug 1953	DeLuxe # 6032	as John Lee Booker
I Wonder Little Darlin '	Jump Me	Feb 6, 1954	Modern # 931	-
I'm Mad	Everybody's blues	May 12, 1954, May 13, 1954	Specialty # 528	-
Dimples	Baby lee	March 27, 1956	Vee-Jay # 205	-
I'm so excited	I see you when you're weak	March 1, 1957	Vee-Jay # 245	-
I love you honey	You've taken my woman	June 10, 1958	Vee-Jay # 293	-
Dusty Road	Tupelo	March 1, 1960 / July 25, 1960	Vee-Jay # 366	see Tupelo
No Shoes	Solid transmitter	1960	Vee-Jay # 349
I'm mad again	I'm going upstairs	Jan. 4, 1961	Vee-Jay # 379	-
Boom boom	Drugstore Woman	Dec 1961	Vee-Jay # 438	-
Take a look at yourself	Frisco Blues	Jan. 28, 1962	Vee-Jay # 493	-

LPs (selection, without compilations)

Album title	Label	year
The Country Blues of John Lee Hooker	Riverside Records	1959
I'm John Lee Hooker	Vee Jay Records	1959
That's My Story / John Lee Hooker Sings The Blues	Riverside Records	1960
Travelin '	Vee Jay Records	1960
House of the Blues	Chess	1960
Plays & Sings the Blues	Chess	1961
The Folk Lore of John Lee Hooker	Vee Jay Records	1961
Burnin '	Vee Jay Records, LP 1043	1961
Don't Turn Me from Your Door - John Lee Hooker Sings His Blues	ATCO Records	1963
How long blues	Battle Records, BLP 6114	1963
The big soul	Vee Jay Records	1963
The Great John Lee Hooker	Crown Records, CLP 5353	1963
On campus	Vee Jay Records, LP 1066	1964
Burning Hell	Riverside Records	1964
Concert at Newport	Vee Jay Records	1964
Hooker and the Hogs		1965
It Serve You Right To Suffer	Impulses!	1965
The Real Folk Blues	Chess	1966
Urban blues	Bluesway	1967
Live at Cafe Au-Go-Go	Bluesway	1967
Live at Sugarhill	Galaxy	1968
Get Back Home		1969
Lonesome mood		1969
No friend around	Advent	1969
That's where it's at	Stax	1969
John Lee Hooker Featuring Earl Hooker - If You Miss 'Im… I Got' Im	Bluesway	1969
Simply the truth	Bluesway	1969
I wanna dance all night	America Records	1970
I feel good	Carson	1970
Get Back Home in the USA	Black and Blue	1970
Canned Heat & John Lee Hooker: Hooker 'N' Heat	Liberty	1971
John Lee Hooker & Coast to Coast Blues Band: Any Where - Any Time - Any Place	United Artists Records	1971
Endless boogie	ABC Records	1971
Never Get Out of These Blues Alive	ABC Records	1972
Live at Soledad Prison	ABC Records	1972
Born in Mississippi, Raised Up In Tennessee	ABC Records	1973
Kabuki Wuki	Bluesway	1973
John Lee Hooker's Detroit Vintage Recordings 1948–1952	United Artists Records	1973
Free beer and chicken	ABC Records	1974
Whiskey & Wimmen, 1975	St Clair Entertainment SLD13192	1999
The Cream	Tomato	1978
Live in 1978	Lunar # 2 Recordings	1979
Sittin 'Here Thinkin'	Muse Records	1979
Alone Volume 1	laboratory	1980
Hooker 'N' Heat - Recorded Live At The Fox Venice Theater	Rhino Records, RNCD 75776	1981
Still Alone Live In New York Vol.2	MMG	1982
Jealous	Pausa Records	1986
Graveyard Blues		1987
Alone	Tomato	1989
Albert King, John Lee Hooker: I'll Play The Blues For You	Tomato	1989
The Healer	Chameleon Music Group	1989
The Hot Spot (soundtrack) - featuring Miles Davis	Antilles	1990
Live at Sugar Hill Volume 1	Ace	1990
Half A Stranger	Mainstream Records	1991
Mr. Lucky	Silvertone Records	1991
More Real Folk Blues / The Missing Album	MCA Records	1991
Boom boom	Point blank, charisma	1992
Mambo Chillun	Charly Records, CDBM19	1992
Blues For Big Town	Charly Records	1993
The Legendary Modern Recordings 1948–1954 {mono}	Flair / Virgin Records	1993
chill out	Virgin, point blank	1995
Don't look back	Point blank	1997
The Unknown John Lee Hooker - 1949 Recordings	Flyright Records	2000
Live at Sugar Hill - Vol. 2	Fantasy	2002
Face to face	Eagle Records	2003

Purchase videos

• 1996: John Lee Hooker & Friends 1984-92
• 1996: Rare Performances 1960–1984
• 2007: John Lee Hooker Live in Montreal 1980
• 2008: John Lee Hooker - That's My Story
• 2009: John Lee Hooker - Come and see about me
• Untitled: John Lee Hooker - Cook With The Hook: Live 1974

Awards for music sales

Silver record  United Kingdom 2013: for the album The Best Of Golden record  Canada 1990: for the album The Healer 1991: for the album Mr. Lucky  Netherlands 1990: for the album The Healer  Switzerland 1991: for the album The Healer  United Kingdom 1990: for the album The Healer 1991: for the album Mr. Lucky 1996: for the album Boom Boom

Platinum record  Norway 1999: for the album Best of Friends

Country / Region	silver	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Canada (MC)	-	2 × gold2	-	100,000	musiccanada.com
Netherlands (NVPI)	-	gold1	-	50,000	nvpi.nl
Norway (IFPI)	-	-	platinum1	40,000	ifpi.no ( Memento from November 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
Switzerland (IFPI)	-	gold1	-	25,000	hitparade.ch
United Kingdom (BPI)	silver1	3 × gold3	-	360,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	silver1	7 × gold7th	platinum1

literature

• Charles Shaar Murray: Boogie Man - The Adventures of John Lee Hooker in the American Twentieth Century . Penguin Books: England 1999. (German translation: John Lee Hooker - Der Boogie-Man . Hannibal: Höfen 2000.)

• Robert Palmer: Deep Blues - A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta. Penguin Books: Toronto 1982. ISBN 978-0-14-006223-6 . (On Hooker especially p. 242 - 253)

Web links

Commons : John Lee Hooker  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

• Official website (English)
• Extensive website about Hooker by Claus Röhnisch
• Detailed discography of Hookers by Claus Röhnisch
• John Lee Hooker at MusicBrainz (English)
• Literature by and about John Lee Hooker in the catalog of the German National Library
• John Lee Hooker in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

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