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John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker is a popular Blues artist from United States, born on .

John Lee Hooker (Coahoma County, Mississippi, August 22, 1917 – Los Altos, California, June 21, 2001) was a highly influential American blues singer, guitarist and songwriter. John Lee Hooker could be said to embody his own unique genre of the blues, often incorporating the boogie-woogie piano style and a driving rhythm into his masterful and idiosyncratic blues guitar and singing. His best known songs include "Boogie Chillen" (1948) and "Boom Boom" (1962). . Popular albums include "The Best of John Lee Hooker, 1965 to 1974", "Urban Blues", "That's My Story: John Lee Hooker Sings The Blues", "It Serve You Right To Suffer", "The Healer", "Burnin'", "The Real Folk Blues" and "I'm John Lee Hooker".