Earl Hooker
Earl Hooker (January 15, 1929 – April 21, 1970) was a Chicago blues guitarist known for his slide guitar playing. Considered a "musician's musician", Hooker performed with blues artists such as Sonny Boy Williamson II, Junior Wells, and John Lee Hooker as well as fronting 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. As a band leader, he recorded several singles and albums, in addition to recording with well-known artists. His "Blue Guitar", a popular Chicago area slide-guitar instrumental single, was later overdubbed with vocals by Muddy Waters on "You Shook Me".
In the late 1960s, Hooker began performing on the college and concert circuit and had several recording contracts. Just as his career was on an upswing, Earl Hooker died in 1970 at age 41 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".
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Earl Hooker
ALBUMS
- The Moon Is Rising released: 1998
- Sweet Black Angel released: 1994
- Play Your Guitar, Mr. Hooker! released: 1993
- The Blues Collection 33: Earl Hooker & Junior Wells released: 1993
- I Couldn't Believe My Eyes Plus... released: 1990
- Two Bugs and a Roach released: 1990
- Hooker 'n Steve (with Steve Miller) released: 1975
- Smooth Slidin' released:
- Play Your Guitar, Mr. Hooker! released:
- Simply the Best released:
- There's a Fungus Among Us released:
- Blue Guitar released:
The Blues Collection 33: Earl Hooker & Junior Wells
Released 1993- Love Me
- Come on in This House
- Two Headed Woman
- Lovey Dovey Lovey One
- I Could Cry
- Cha Cha Cha in Blue
- You Don't Care
- Prison Bars All Around Me
- Calling All Blues
- Galloping Horses a Lazy Mule
- Blues in D Natural
- Messin' With the Kid
- You Sure Look Good to Me
- Universal Rock
- Rockin' With the Kid
- Little by Little
- These Cotton Pickin' Blues
- Blue Guitar
- I'm a Stranger
- I Need Me a Car
I Couldn't Believe My Eyes Plus...
Released 1990- Black Cat Bone
- Brownie's New Blues
- Poor Man Blues
- Tell Me Why
- My Baby's So Fine
- You Just Usin' Me for a Convenience
- Hole in the Wall
- Long Way From Home
- Don't Wait for Me
- I'm in Love With You Baby
- Parcel Post Blues
- When I Was Drinkin'
- I Couldn't Believe My Eyes
- Life Is a Gamble
- Don't Mistreat Me
- Rock Island Line
Smooth Slidin'
- How Long Can This Go On
- Those Cotton-Pickin' Blues
- You Better Be Sure
- The Leading Brand
- Nothing but Poison
- Nothing but Good
- The Foxtrot
- Bertha
- End of the Blues
- Walking the Floor Over You
- Off the Hook
- Hold on..... I'm Coming
- Two Bugs in a Rug
- Hooker Special
- Something You Ate
- Dust My Broom
- Hot and Heavy
- The Screwdrive
Simply the Best
- You Shook Me
- Frog Hop (instrumental)
- Tanya (instrumental)
- Messin' Around With the Blues (instrumental)
- Drivin' Wheel (instrumental)
- Sweet Home Chicago
- Sweet Black Angel (instrumental)
- When I Was Drinkin'
- Universal Rock (instrumental)
- Don't Have to Worry
- Come to Me Right Away, Baby
- Hookin' (instrumental)
- You Got to Lose
- Would You Baby
- The Sky Is Crying
- They Call It Stormy Monday
- Farther Up the Road
- Drifting Blues
- If You Miss 'Im... I Got 'Im...
Blue Guitar
- Will My Man Be Home Tonight
- Oh Mama
- Calling All Blues
- Swear to Tell the Truth
- Galloping Horses a Lazy Mule
- Blues in D Natural
- Universal Rock
- Apache War Dance
- Rocking With the Kid
- Rockin' Wild
- This Little Voice
- Blue Guitar
- How Long Can This Go On
- These Cotton Pickin' Blues
- That Man
- Win the Dance
- Crying Blues
- The Bright Sound
- Off the Hook
- Lotta Lovin'
- The Leading Brand
Born: 1929-01-15
Died: 1970-04-21
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