John Lee Hooker & Carlos Santana

John Lee Hooker & Carlos Santana

Genres: blues, Home collection, rock

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About John Lee Hooker & Carlos Santana

John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1917 – June 21, 2001) was an influential American post-war blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter born in Coahoma County near Clarksdale, Mississippi. From a musical family, he was a cousin of Earl Hooker. Hooker was also influenced by his stepfather, a local blues guitarist, who learned in Shreveport, Louisiana to play a droning, one-chord blues that was strikingly different from the Delta blues of the time. He developed a half-spoken style that was his trademark. Though similar to the early Delta blues, his music was rhythmically free. John Lee Hooker could be said to embody his own unique genre of the blues, often incorporating the boogie-woogie piano style and a driving rhythm into his masterful and idiosyncratic blues guitar and singing. His best known songs include "Boogie Chillen" (1948) and "Boom Boom" (1962). In 1989 Hooker started working with Rolling Stones Guitarist Keith Richards and Latin Rocker Carlos Santana to record the song "The Healer" for which he and Santana won a Grammy award.

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