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Earl Hooker (January 15, 1929 – April 21, 1970) was an American blues guitarist.|Born Earl Zebedee Hooker in Clarksdale, Mississippi, his impoverished family moved to Chicago, Illinois when he was still an infant. Influenced by parents and relatives who played music, he was a cousin of John Lee Hooker and began playing guitar as a teenager. An instrumentalist, within a few years Hooker put together a band that toured the United States and made some of his first recordings for Sam Phillips at Sun Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. He eventually became an important part of the Chicago blues scene. Hooker played in the American Folk Blues Festival in England in 1969. Although he never received the public recognition to the same extent as some of his contemporaries, Jimi Hendrix proclaimed Earl Hooker as the “master of the wah-wah” and his talent was greatly respected by other notable musicians such as B.B. King, Ike Turner, Junior Wells, and Buddy Guy. Hooker played slide guitar on the 1962 Muddy Waters recording, “You Shook Me.” He was the only slide player on a Muddy Waters recording besides Muddy himself. Hooker also helped popularized the double-neck guitar.|Earl Hooker died at the age of 41 after a lifelong struggle against tuberculosis, which is alluded t...
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Top 10 Earl Hooker Songs
Blue Guitar
Wah Wah Blues
Off the Hook
The Foxtrot
End of the Blues
Sweet Black Angel
Sweet Angel
Frog Hop
Two Bugs and a Roach
Guitar Rag
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Top 10 Earl Hooker Albums
Blue Guitar
Two Bugs and a Roach
Simply the Best
Simply The Best Collection
The Moon Is Rising
Sweet Black Angel
Moon Is Rising
There's a Fungus Among Us
Play Your Guitar, Mr. Hooker!
Blues Guitar: The Chief and Age Sessions 1959-1963
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