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Earl Hooker (Earl Zebedee Hooker) was born on 15 January, 1930 in Quitman County, Mississippi, U.S., is an American blues guitarist. Discover Earl Hooker's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 40 years old?

Popular As Earl Zebedee Hooker
Occupation Musician
Age 40 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 15 January 1930
Birthday 15 January
Birthplace Quitman County, Mississippi, U.S.
Date of death 21 April, 1970
Died Place Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1930

Earl Zebedee Hooker (January 15, 1930 – April 21, 1970) was a Chicago blues guitarist known for his slide guitar playing.

Considered a "musician's musician", he performed with blues artists such as Sonny Boy Williamson II, Junior Wells, and John Lee Hooker and fronted his own bands.

An early player of the electric guitar, Hooker was influenced by the modern urban styles of T-Bone Walker and Robert Nighthawk.

He recorded several singles and albums as a bandleader and with other well-known artists.

His "Blue Guitar", a slide guitar instrumental single, was popular in the Chicago area and was later overdubbed with vocals by Muddy Waters as "You Shook Me".

In 1930, his parents moved the family to Chicago, during the Great Migration of blacks out of the rural South in the early 20th century.

His family was musically inclined (John Lee Hooker was a cousin), and Earl heard music played at home at an early age.

About age ten, he started playing the guitar.

He was self-taught and picked up what he could from those around him.

He developed proficiency on the guitar but showed no interest in singing.

He had pronounced stuttering, which afflicted him all his life.

Hooker contracted tuberculosis when he was young.

1942

By 1942, when he was 12, Hooker was performing on Chicago street corners with childhood friends, including Bo Diddley.

From the beginning, the blues was Hooker's favorite music.

In this period, country-influenced blues was giving way to swing-influenced and jump blues styles, which often featured the electric guitar.

In 1942, the popular guitarist T-Bone Walker began a three-month stint at the Rhumboogie Club in Chicago.

He had considerable impact on Hooker, with both his playing and his showmanship.

Walker's swing-influenced blues guitar, including "the jazzy way he would sometimes run the blues scales" and intricate chording, appealed to Hooker.

Walker's stage dynamics, which included playing the guitar behind his neck and with his teeth, influenced Hooker's later stage act.

Around this time, Hooker became friends with Robert Nighthawk, one of the first guitarists in Chicago to play the electric guitar.

Nighthawk taught Hooker slide guitar techniques, including various tunings and his highly articulated approach, and was a lasting influence on Hooker's playing.

Also around this time, Hooker met Junior Wells, another important figure in his career.

The two were frequent street performers, and sometimes, to avoid foul weather (or truancy officers), they played in streetcars, riding from one line to another across Chicago.

1946

Around 1946, Hooker traveled to Helena, Arkansas, where he performed with Robert Nighthawk.

When he was not booked with Nighthawk, he performed with Sonny Boy Williamson II, sometimes on Williamson's popular radio program, King Biscuit Time, on station KFFA, in Helena.

Hooker toured the South as a member of Nighthawk's band for the next couple of years.

This was his introduction to life as an itinerant blues musician (although he had earlier run away from home and spent time in the Mississippi Delta).

1949

In 1949, Hooker tried to establish himself in the music scene in Memphis, Tennessee, but was soon back on the road, fronting his own band.

1950

The disease did not become critical until the mid-1950s, but it required periodic hospitalizations, beginning at an early age.

By the early 1950s he had returned to Chicago and was performing regularly in clubs.

This set the pattern that he repeated for most of his life: extensive touring with various musicians interspersed with establishing himself in various cities before returning to the Chicago club scene.

During this time, he formed a band with the blues drummer and vocalist Kansas City Red.

1952

In 1952, Hooker began recording for several independent record companies.

His early singles were often credited to the vocalist he recorded with, although some instrumentals (and his occasional vocal) were issued in Hooker's name.

Songs by Hooker and blues and R&B artists, including Johnny O'Neal, Little Sam Davis, Boyd Gilmore, Pinetop Perkins, the Dells, Arbee Stidham, Lorenzo Smith, and Harold Tidwell, were recorded for King, Rockin', Sun, Argo, Vee-Jay, States, United, and C.J. (several of these recordings, including all of the Sun sessions, were unissued at the time).

The harmonica player Little Arthur Duncan often accompanied Hooker during this period.

1960

In the late 1960s, Hooker began performing on the college and concert circuit and had several recording contracts.

1970

Just as his career was on an upswing, he died in 1970, at age 40, after a lifelong struggle with tuberculosis.

His guitar playing has been acknowledged by many of his peers, including B.B. King, who commented, "to me he is the best of modern guitarists. Period. With the slide he was the best. It was nobody else like him, he was just one of a kind".

Hooker was born in rural Quitman County, Mississippi, outside of Clarksdale.