Earl Hooker

Earl Hooker (* January 15, 1929 or 1930 in Clarksdale, Mississippi, † April 21, 1970 in Chicago, Illinois), full name is Earl Zebedee Hooker was an American blues musician and a cousin of blues legend John Lee Hooker. at 10 he began playing the guitar and went in 1941 in Chicago in the Lyon and Healy School of Music. The mid- 40s, he took guitar lessons with Robert Nighthawk. In October 1969, he came as part of a tour with the American Folk Blues Festival in Europe. However, this tour seemed to have overworked him physically, as Hooker was admitted after a few performances in November and December 1969 in Chicago to the hospital, where he died due to complications of his tuberculosis. He is buried in Chicago.

Discography

• Two Bugs And A Roach, Arhoolie (1966 )
• The Genius Of Earl Hooker Cucu (1969 )
• Do not Have To Worry, Bluesway (1969 )
• Sweet Black Angel, One Way (1970 )
• Funk Last Of the Great Earl Hooker, Blues On Blues ( 1972)
• Do You Remember The Great Earl Hooker, Bluesway (1973 )
• Hooker N ' Steve, Arhoolie (1975 )
• Leading Brand, Red Lightnin ' (1978 )
• Blue Guitar, P -Vine (1981 )
• Play Your Guitar Mr. Hooker! , Blacktop (1985 )
• His First And Last Recordings, Arhoolie (1986 )
• Calling All Blues, Charly (1986 )
• Smooth Slidin, CLP ( 1998)
• Moon Is Rising, Arhoolie (1998)
• Chicago Blues Guitar Genius, P -Vine (1998)
• Simply The Best: Earl Hooker Collection, MCA (1999)