Personalities | Earl Hooker | Fifties | Jazz & Blues
(Guitar, vocals, 1930–70)
Earl Zebedee Hooker Jr., a cousin of John Lee Hooker, was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He learned guitar by the age of 10 and moved to Chicago in 1941. Hooker was inspired by Robert Nighthawk and at the end of 1940s returned south, where he played with Rice Miller and Ike Turner. He first recorded in 1952, and from 1959 recorded a series of singles for small Chicago labels. He recorded and toured internationally in 1965 and 1969. Hooker was a slide guitar player of great originality but was slowed by tuberculosis, which eventually killed him.
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