John Lee Hooker

 

Born near Clarksdale, Mississippi in 1917 to a sharecropper family, John Lee Hooker was one of the last links to the blues of the deep South. He moved to Detroit in the early 1940's and by 1948 had scored his first number-one jukebox hit and million-seller, "Boogie Chillun." Other hits soon followed, "I'm In The Mood," "Crawling Kingsnake," and "Boom Boom" among the biggest. During the 1950s and '60s, Vee Jay Records released a remarkable string of more than 100 of John Lee's songs.

—From his web site

    

 

BB King, John Lee Hooker, and Willie Dixon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I had the pleasure of knowing John Lee Hooker. He often played the Keystone Palo alto, where I worked back in the day. He was a nice person, and he let me draw his picture.