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John Lee Hooker

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I just get an idea and then all of a sudden I've got a song.


— John Lee Hooker


#got #i #idea #just #song

I like dropping into a small club and playing with some people, trying to help them get a start.


— John Lee Hooker


#dropping #get #help #i #into

I like the small clubs.


— John Lee Hooker


#i #like #small

I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to call me Boom Boom. I don't know why, but he did.


— John Lee Hooker


#apex #back #bar #bartender #boom

I don't think about time. You're here when you're here. I think about today, staying in tune.


— John Lee Hooker


#here #i #i think #staying #think

I went on to Cincinnati. I had got a taste of the big cities and them bright lights. I stayed there until I was about 18 or 19 and then I went on to Detroit.


— John Lee Hooker


#big #big cities #bright #bright lights #cincinnati

I've got enough money to live me two lifetimes so I don't have to do nothing I don't want to.


— John Lee Hooker


#got #i #lifetimes #live #me

If they played more blues, people would just get it - they try to hold it back but just about can't hold it back now because the blues is really going.


— John Lee Hooker


#back #because #blues #get #going

In my career, people in the record business have been rockin' in the same ol' boat. They all crooks - I'll say it clear and loud - especially the big ones.


— John Lee Hooker


#big #big ones #boat #business #career

It don't take me no three days to record no album.


— John Lee Hooker


#days #me #record #take #three






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Did you know about John Lee Hooker?

One song by John Lee Hooker Down Child is solely credited to Taub with Hooker receiving no credit. L. His vocal phrasing was less closely tied to specific bars than most blues singers.

Hooker began his life as the son of a sharecropper William Hooker and rose to prominence performing his own unique style of what was originally a unique brand of country blues. Though similar to the early Delta blues his music was metrically free. John Lee Hooker (August 22 1917 – June 21 2001) was a highly influential American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist.

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