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John Lee Hooker

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My style is all to myself.


— John Lee Hooker


#style

Oh, I still like to play and I still play when I want to.


— John Lee Hooker


#like #oh #play #still #want

Since you knew they was goin' to cheat you anyway, I recorded under any name with all of 'em.


— John Lee Hooker


#anyway #cheat #goin #i #knew

The blues tells a story. Every line of the blues has a meaning.


— John Lee Hooker


#every #line #meaning #story #tells

The way Will Moore taught me, and the way I play it, the blues is just something different.


— John Lee Hooker


#different #i #just #me #moore

They wasn't gonna give you nothin'. I didn't care as long as they let me play my music. Cash on the spot... You cheat me and I'm gonna get me some money, too.


— John Lee Hooker


#cash #cheat #get #give #gonna

You can go to Europe, and there's no turnin' back - any parts of Europe. Wherever you are, there is no stop and go for the blues. The blues go but it don't stop.


— John Lee Hooker


#back #blues #europe #go #parts

I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.


— John Lee Hooker


#baseball #baseball game #game #i #music






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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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