John Lee Hooker, the Glossary

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1. 106 relations: All Music Guide to the Blues, AllMusic, American Folk Blues Festival, Aretha Franklin, Atco Records, Atlantic Records, Beale Street, Bernard Besman, Billboard 200, Blues, Blues Foundation, Blues Hall of Fame, Blues rock, BluesWay Records, Bonnie Raitt, Boogie Chillen', Boogie rock, Boogie-woogie, Boom Boom (John Lee Hooker song), Brewster-Douglass Housing Projects, Canned Heat, Carlos Santana, Chameleon (label), Chance Records, Chess Records, Chicago, Chill Out (John Lee Hooker album), Clarksdale, Mississippi, Come See About Me (video), Crawling King Snake, Da Capo Press, De Luxe Records, Delta blues, Detroit, Dimples (song), Don't Look Back (John Lee Hooker album), Don't Look Back (John Lee Hooker song), DVD, Eddie Kirkland, Eddie Taylor, Elvin Bishop, Endless Boogie, Ford Motor Company, Fortune Records, Furry Lewis, Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals, Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Greenwood Publishing Group, Hill country blues, ... Expand index (56 more) »

2. Blues musicians from Tennessee
3. Blues revival musicians
4. Brylen Records artists
5. Detroit blues musicians
6. Flair Records artists
7. Kent Records artists
8. Specialty Records artists

All Music Guide to the Blues

All Music Guide to the Blues: The Definitive Guide to the Blues is a non-fiction, encyclopedic referencing of blues music compiled under the direction of All Media Guide.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.

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American Folk Blues Festival

The American Folk Blues Festival was a music festival that toured Europe as an annual event for several years beginning in 1962.

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Aretha Franklin

Aretha Louise Franklin (March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018) was an American singer, songwriter and pianist. John Lee Hooker and Aretha Franklin are Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners.

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Atco Records

ATCO Records is an American record label founded in 1955.

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Atlantic Records

Atlantic Recording Corporation (simply known as Atlantic Records) is an American record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson.

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Beale Street

Beale Street is a street in Downtown Memphis, Tennessee, which runs from the Mississippi River to East Street, a distance of approximately.

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Bernard Besman

Bernard Besman (October 8, 1912 – January 10, 2003) was an American record producer and distributor who established Sensation Records, an early independent record label in Detroit, Michigan.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s.

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Blues Foundation

The Blues Foundation is an American nonprofit corporation, headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee, that is affiliated with more than 175 blues organizations from various parts of the world.

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Blues Hall of Fame

The Blues Hall of Fame is a music museum operated by the Blues Foundation at 421 S. Main Street in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Blues rock

Blues rock is a fusion genre and form of rock music that relies on the chords/scales and instrumental improvisation of blues.

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BluesWay Records

BluesWay Records was an American subsidiary label of ABC-Paramount Records, begun by Bob Thiele in 1966.

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Bonnie Raitt

Bonnie Lynn Raitt (born November 8, 1949) is an American blues rock singer, guitarist, and songwriter. John Lee Hooker and Bonnie Raitt are American blues guitarists, American blues singer-songwriters, electric blues musicians, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners and singer-songwriters from California.

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Boogie Chillen'

"Boogie Chillen'" or "Boogie Chillun" is a blues song first recorded by John Lee Hooker in 1948.

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Boogie rock

Boogie rock is a style of blues rock music that developed in the late 1960s.

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Boogie-woogie

Boogie-woogie is a genre of blues music that became popular during the late 1920s, developed in African-American communities since the 1870s.

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Boom Boom (John Lee Hooker song)

"Boom Boom" is a song written by American blues singer and guitarist John Lee Hooker and recorded October 26, 1961.

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Brewster-Douglass Housing Projects

The Brewster-Douglass Housing Projects (officially named the Frederick Douglass Homes, and alternately named Frederick Douglass Projects, Frederick Douglass Apartments, Brewster-Douglass Homes, and Brewster-Douglass Projects) were the largest residential housing project owned by the city of Detroit.

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Canned Heat

Canned Heat is an American blues and rock band that was formed in Los Angeles in 1965.

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Carlos Santana

Carlos Humberto Santana Barragán (born July 20, 1947) is an American guitarist, best known as a founding member of the rock band Santana.

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Chameleon (label)

Chameleon was a record label formed by producer, music entrepreneur and former Capitol Records A&R executive Stephen Powers, in association with Bob Marin, Managing Director of alternative rock importer Sounds Good, and Richard Foos, co-founder of Rhino Records.

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Chance Records

Chance Records was a Chicago-based label founded in 1950 by Art Sheridan.

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Chess Records

Chess Records was an American record company established in 1950 in Chicago, specializing in blues and rhythm and blues.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Chill Out (John Lee Hooker album)

Chill Out is a 1995 album by John Lee Hooker featuring Van Morrison, Carlos Santana, Charles Brown, and Booker T. Jones.

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Clarksdale, Mississippi

Clarksdale is a city in and the county seat of Coahoma County, Mississippi, United States.

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Come See About Me (video)

Come See About Me: The Definitive DVD is a 2004 film featuring concert performances by American blues artist John Lee Hooker.

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Crawling King Snake

"Crawling King Snake" (alternatively "Crawlin' King Snake" or "Crawling/Crawlin' Kingsnake") is a blues song that has been recorded by numerous blues and other artists.

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Da Capo Press

Da Capo Press is an American publishing company with headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts.

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De Luxe Records

De Luxe Records (later DeLuxe Records) was a record company and label formed in 1944 by brothers David Braun (1908–1985) and Julius "Jules" Braun (1911–2002), the sons of Hungarian Jewish immigrants, in Linden, New Jersey.

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Delta blues

Delta blues is one of the earliest-known styles of blues.

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Detroit

Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Dimples (song)

"Dimples" is a song written and recorded by blues singer-songwriter John Lee Hooker in 1956.

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Don't Look Back (John Lee Hooker album)

Don't Look Back is an album released by blues singer-songwriter John Lee Hooker in 1997 that was co-produced by Van Morrison and Mike Kappus.

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Don't Look Back (John Lee Hooker song)

"Don't Look Back" is a song written by blues singer-songwriter John Lee Hooker, and released as a single in 1964.

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DVD

The DVD (common abbreviation for digital video disc or digital versatile disc) is a digital optical disc data storage format.

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Eddie Kirkland

Eddie Kirkland (August 16, 1923 – February 27, 2011) was an American electric blues guitarist, harmonicist, singer, and songwriter. John Lee Hooker and Eddie Kirkland are American blues guitarists.

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Eddie Taylor

Eddie Taylor (January 29, 1923 – December 25, 1985) was an American electric blues guitarist and singer. John Lee Hooker and Eddie Taylor are 20th-century African-American male singers, African-American guitarists, American blues guitarists, blues musicians from Mississippi, guitarists from Mississippi and vee-Jay Records artists.

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Elvin Bishop

Elvin Richard Bishop (born October 21, 1942) is an American blues and rock music singer, guitarist, bandleader, and songwriter. John Lee Hooker and Elvin Bishop are American blues guitarists.

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Endless Boogie

Endless Boogie is a studio album by American blues musician John Lee Hooker, released in 1971 through ABC Records.

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Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company (commonly known as Ford) is an American multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, United States.

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Fortune Records

Fortune Records was an American family operated, independent record label located in Detroit, Michigan from 1946 to 1995.

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Furry Lewis

Walter E. "Furry" Lewis (March 6, 1893 or 1899 – September 14, 1981) was an American country blues guitarist and songwriter from Memphis, Tennessee. John Lee Hooker and Furry Lewis are 20th-century African-American male singers, African-American guitarists, African-American male singer-songwriters, American blues guitarists, American blues singer-songwriters, blues revival musicians, guitarists from Mississippi, guitarists from Tennessee, singer-songwriters from Mississippi and singer-songwriters from Tennessee.

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Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals

The Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals was an honor presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality pop songs on which singers collaborate.

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Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album

The Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album was awarded from 1983 to 2011 and from 2017 onwards.

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Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

The Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award is a special Grammy Award that is awarded by The Recording Academy to "performers who, during their lifetimes, have made creative contributions of outstanding artistic significance to the field of recording." This award is distinct from the Grammy Hall of Fame Award, which honors specific recordings rather than individuals, and the Grammy Trustees Award, which honors non-performers. John Lee Hooker and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award are Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winners.

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Greenwood Publishing Group

Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. (GPG), also known as ABC-Clio/Greenwood (stylized ABC-CLIO/Greenwood), is an educational and academic publisher (middle school through university level) which is today part of ABC-Clio.

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Hill country blues

Hill country blues (also known as North Mississippi hill country blues or North Mississippi blues) is a regional style of country blues.

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Hollywood Walk of Fame

The Hollywood Walk of Fame is a landmark which consists of 2,783 five-pointed terrazzo-and-brass stars embedded in the sidewalks along 15 blocks of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street in the Los Angeles, California district of Hollywood.

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Homeschooling

Homeschooling or home schooling, also known as home education or elective home education (EHE), is the education of school-aged children at home or a variety of places other than a school.

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Hooker 'n Heat

Hooker 'n Heat is a double album released by blues musician John Lee Hooker and the band Canned Heat in early 1971.

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House of the Blues

House of the Blues is an album by blues musician John Lee Hooker, compiling tracks originally released as singles between 1951 and 1952.

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Impulse! Records

Impulse! Records (occasionally styled as "¡mpulse! Records" and "¡!") is an American jazz record label established by Creed Taylor in 1960.

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Indigo Music Corporation

The Indigo Music Corporation was a Nashville-based company that was the umbrella organization for the Audiograph, Brylen Records, Indigo Music, and Phonorama Records labels.

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Jimmie Vaughan

Jimmie Lawrence Vaughan Jr. (born March 20, 1951) is an American blues rock guitarist and singer based in Austin, Texas. John Lee Hooker and Jimmie Vaughan are American blues guitarists and electric blues musicians.

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Joel Whitburn

Joel Carver Whitburn (November 29, 1939 – June 14, 2022) was an American author and music historian, responsible for setting up the Record Research, Inc.

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King Records (United States)

King Records was an American label founded in 1943 by Syd Nathan in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.

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Long Beach, California

Long Beach is a coastal city in southeastern Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Los Altos, California

Los Altos (Spanish for "The Heights") is a city in Santa Clara County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Los Lobos

Los Lobos (Spanish for "the Wolves") is a Mexican-American rock band from East Los Angeles, California. John Lee Hooker and Los Lobos are National Heritage Fellowship winners.

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Macmillan Publishers

Macmillan Publishers (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group; formally Macmillan Publishers Ltd in the UK and Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC in the US) is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be one of the 'Big Five' English language publishers (along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster).

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Massey Hall

Massey Hall is a performing arts theatre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Maxwell Street

Maxwell Street is an east–west street in Chicago, Illinois, that intersects with Halsted Street just south of Roosevelt Road.

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Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee.

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Miller Freeman, Inc.

Miller Freeman, Inc., was a San Francisco–based publisher of trade books and business magazines, as well as a manager of trade and industry expositions.

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Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame

The Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame, headquartered in Clinton, Mississippi, honors Mississippi's famous musicians.

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Modern Records

Modern Records (Modern Music Records before 1947) was an American record company and label formed in 1945 in Los Angeles by the Bihari brothers.

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Mr. Lucky (John Lee Hooker album)

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National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence.

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National Heritage Fellowship

The National Heritage Fellowship is a lifetime honor presented to master folk and traditional artists by the National Endowment for the Arts. John Lee Hooker and National Heritage Fellowship are National Heritage Fellowship winners.

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National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame

The National Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame is an independent organization whose mission is to educate and to celebrate, preserve, promote, and present rhythm and blues music globally.

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Never Get Out of These Blues Alive

Never Get Out of These Blues Alive is a studio album by American blues musician John Lee Hooker, released in 1972 by ABC Records and recorded on September 28–29, 1971.

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New Daisy Theatre

The New Daisy Theatre is a music venue located on Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Official Charts Company

The Official Charts Company (OCC or Official Charts; previously known as the Chart Information Network, CIN, and the Official UK Charts Company; legally known as the Official UK Charts Company Limited) is a British inter-professional organisation that compiles various official record charts in the United Kingdom, Ireland and France.

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One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer

"One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" (originally "One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer") is a blues song written by Rudy Toombs and recorded by Amos Milburn in 1953.

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books Limited is a British publishing house.

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Point Blank Records

Point Blank Records is a record label subsidiary of Virgin Records.

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Race record

Race records is a term for 78-rpm phonograph records marketed to African Americans between the 1920s and 1940s.

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Recording Industry Association of America

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the music recording industry in the United States.

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Redwood City, California

Redwood City is a city on the San Francisco Peninsula in Northern California's Bay Area, approximately south of San Francisco, and northwest of San Jose.

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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (RRHOF), also simply referred to as the Rock Hall, is a museum and hall of fame located in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States, on the shore of Lake Erie.

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Rock music

Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on music, politics, and popular culture.

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Savoy Records

Savoy Records is an American record company and label established by Herman Lubinsky in 1942 in Newark, New Jersey.

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Sharecropping is a legal arrangement in which a landowner allows a tenant (sharecropper) to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on that land.

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Shreveport, Louisiana

Shreveport is a city in the U.S. state of Louisiana.

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Songs of the Century

The "Songs of the Century" list is part of an education project by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the National Endowment for the Arts, and Scholastic Inc. that aims to "promote a better understanding of America's musical and cultural heritage" in American schools.

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Specialty Records

Specialty Records was an American record label founded in Los Angeles in 1945 by Art Rupe. John Lee Hooker and Specialty Records are Specialty Records artists.

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Spirituals

Spirituals (also known as Negro spirituals, African American spirituals, Black spirituals, or spiritual music) is a genre of Christian music that is associated with African Americans, which merged varied African cultural influences with the experiences of being held in bondage in slavery, at first during the transatlantic slave trade and for centuries afterwards, through the domestic slave trade.

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Steve Miller (musician)

Steven Haworth Miller (born October 5, 1943)Justin Kern.

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Talking blues

Talking blues is a form of folk music and country music.

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The Blues Brothers (film)

The Blues Brothers is a 1980 American musical action comedy film directed by John Landis.

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The Groundhogs

The Groundhogs were an English blues and rock band founded in late 1963 in London.

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The Healer (album)

The Healer is a blues album by John Lee Hooker, released in 1989 by Chameleon.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Tony Hollins

Tony Hollins (June 25, 1909 – January 1957) was an American blues singer, guitarist and songwriter. John Lee Hooker and Tony Hollins are 20th-century African-American male singers, African-American guitarists, African-American male singer-songwriters, American blues guitarists, blues musicians from Mississippi, country blues musicians, guitarists from Mississippi and singer-songwriters from Mississippi.

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Traditional blues verses

In the folk tradition, there are many traditional blues verses that have been sung over and over by many artists.

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Tutwiler, Mississippi

Tutwiler is a town in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, United States.

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UK singles chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently titled the Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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Uncanned! The Best of Canned Heat

Uncanned! The Best of Canned Heat is a two-disc CD set issued in 1994 that features various tracks from previous albums and some previously unreleased tracks.

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Van Morrison

Sir George Ivan Morrison (born 31 August 1945) is a singer-songwriter and musician from Northern Ireland whose recording career spans seven decades.

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Vee-Jay Records

Vee-Jay Records is an American record label founded in the 1950s, located in Chicago and specializing in blues, jazz, rhythm and blues and rock and roll.

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Verve Records

Verve Records is an active American record label owned by Universal Music Group (UMG).

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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See also

Blues musicians from Tennessee

• Cecil Gant
• Elvis Presley
• Ernest "Big" Crawford
• Henry Speller
• Homesick James
• Howard Armstrong (musician)
• John Lee Hooker
• Johnny Wright (guitarist)
• Junior Wells
• Koko Taylor
• Memphis Slim
• Memphis Willie B.
• Roscoe Shelton
• Son Bonds
• Sonny Boy Williamson I
• St. Louis Jimmy Oden
• Terry Garland
• Willie Mabon

Blues revival musicians

• Alexis Korner
• Big Joe Williams
• Billy Boy Arnold
• Brownie McGhee
• Buddy Moss
• Bukka White
• Dave "Snaker" Ray
• Elizabeth Cotten
• Fabio Treves
• Furry Lewis
• Geoff Bradford (musician)
• Howard Armstrong (musician)
• Jesse Fuller
• Jimmy Reed
• John Lee Hooker
• John Mayall
• Johnny Almond
• Jon Mark
• Josh White
• Junior Wells
• Koerner, Ray & Glover
• Lightnin' Hopkins
• Lonnie Johnson (musician)
• Mississippi Fred McDowell
• Mississippi John Hurt
• Mitch Grainger
• Muddy Waters
• Peter Madcat Ruth
• Robert Belfour
• Robert Pete Williams
• Scott H. Biram
• Skip James
• Slim Harpo
• Smoky Babe
• Son House
• Sonny Terry
• Ted Bogan

Brylen Records artists

• Billy Joe Royal
• Bobby Penn
• Hoyt Axton
• John Lee Hooker
• O. B. McClinton
• Price Mitchell
• Sheila Andrews
• The Archies

Detroit blues musicians

• Alberta Adams
• Andre Williams (musician)
• Baby Boy Warren
• Billy Davis (guitarist)
• Bobo Jenkins
• Boogie Woogie Red
• Calvin Frazier
• Doctor Ross
• Eddie "Guitar" Burns
• Gary Wiggins (musician)
• Harmonica Shah
• Jay Johnson (singer)
• Joe Weaver
• John Lee Hooker
• Johnnie Bassett
• L.C. Green
• Little Sonny
• Misty Love
• Mr. Bo
• Nolan Strong & the Diablos
• One String Sam
• Robert Penn (musician)
• Sampson Pittman
• The Butler Twins
• Thornetta Davis
• Washboard Willie
• Willie D. Warren

Flair Records artists

• Billy Gayles
• Earl Forest
• Elmore James
• Ike Turner
• John Lee Hooker
• Johnny Ace
• Lew Williams
• Mercy Dee Walton
• Richard Berry (musician)
• The Chimes (American band)
• The Flairs

Kent Records artists

• B. B. King
• Big Joe Turner
• Billy Watkins (musician)
• Bobby Bland
• Charles Brown (musician)
• Clydie King
• Danny Flores
• Etta James
• Floyd Dixon
• Hadda Brooks
• Ike & Tina Turner
• Ike Turner
• Jesse Belvin
• Jimmy McCracklin
• Jimmy Witherspoon
• Joe Hinton
• Joe Houston
• John Lee Hooker
• Johnny "Guitar" Watson
• Johnny Copeland
• Johnny Otis
• Little Ann (singer)
• Little Joe Blue
• Lowell Fulson
• Luke "Long Gone" Miles
• Marvin & Johnny
• Pacific Gas & Electric (band)
• Roosevelt Sykes
• Roy Hawkins
• Roy Milton
• Rudy Ray Moore
• She (American band)
• The Mighty Hannibal
• The Teen Queens
• Woody Herman
• Z. Z. Hill

Specialty Records artists

• Art Neville
• Buddy Banks (saxophonist)
• Bumble Bee Slim
• Camille Howard
• Chuck Higgins
• Claude King
• Clifton Chenier
• Clydie King
• Don and Dewey
• Earl King
• Eugene Church
• Floyd Dixon
• Frankie Ervin
• Frankie Lee Sims
• Gerald Wiggins
• Guitar Slim
• H-Bomb Ferguson
• J. W. Alexander (musician)
• Jesse Belvin
• Jesse Thomas (musician)
• Jimmy Liggins
• Joe Liggins
• Joe Lutcher
• John Lee Hooker
• Johnny Fuller (musician)
• Johnny Tyler
• King Perry
• Larry Williams
• Li'l Millet
• Little Richard
• Lloyd Price
• Marvin & Johnny
• Percy Mayfield
• René Hall
• Roddy Jackson
• Roy Milton
• Roy Montrell
• Sam Cooke
• Shot Jackson
• Smokey Hogg
• Sonny Bono
• Specialty Records
• Swan Silvertones
• The Caravans
• The Soul Stirrers
• Vernon Green
• Wynona Carr

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lee_Hooker

Also known as Hooker, John Lee, I Wanna Dance All Night, John Lee Booker, John Lee Cooker, John Lee Hooker Sings the Blues, John Lee Hooker Sr., Johnny Lee Hooker, Lee Hooker, Mad Man Blues, Texas Slim.

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