John Lee Hooker

Biography

John Lee Hooker was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. The son of a sharecropper, he rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-style adaptation of Delta blues. Hooker often incorporated other elements, including talking blues and early North Mississippi Hill country blues.

Known for

6.7
Top of the Pops
1964
7.7
The Blues Brothers
1980
7.4
The Blues
2003
7.9
The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Concerts
2009
Monochrome: Black, White & Blue
2017
7.5
Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music
1993
8.5
Feel Like Going Home
2003
Van Morrison: One Irish Rover
1991
Motor City's Burning: Detroit from Motown to the Stooges
2008
Wired for Sound: A Guitar Odyssey
1997
8.2
The Rolling Stones - Steel Wheels Live
1989
7.5
Blues at the BBC
2009
6.8
John Lee Hooker: Come and See About Me
2004
Newport and the Great Folk Dream
2025
The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966, Vol. 1
2003
John Lee Hooker and Friends 1984-1992
1992
6.5
Play It Loud: The Story of Marshall
2014
John Lee Hooker: The Boogie Man
2019