John Lee Hooker
(August 22, 1917 – June 21, 2001)
Born in Mississippi in 1917 to a sharecropper family, John Lee was one of the last links to real Deep South Blues...
Thank goodness he moved to The Motor City in the 1940s…
By 1948 John Lee had scored his first #1 juke box hit with “Boogie Chillun”—It was a million seller!
After that, he scored a string of hits: “I’m In The Mood,” “Crawling Kingsnake” and “Boom Boom” to mention a few…
The Apex Bar was his home in the old days…
I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to call me Boom Boom. I don't know why, but he did…
--John Lee Hooker
--John Lee Hooker
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On July 4, 1957
John Lee Hooker played the first of four nights at the Apex Bar, Detroit, Michigan, USA
John Lee Hooker played the first of four nights at the Apex Bar, Detroit, Michigan, USA
It don't take me no three days to record no album...--John Lee Hooker
“Boogie Chillun” and “Boom Boom” were named to the list of 500 songs that shaped rock by The Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame and “Boogie Chillun” was included in their ‘Songs of the Century’
John Lee was inducted into The Blues Hall of Fame in 1980 and The Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame in 1991
Google this cat if, for reasons I will never understand, you aren’t hip to John Lee Hooker…
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