Overview
John Lee Hooker
Known For
Play It Loud: The Story of Marshall
A history and tribute to British Jim Marshall's amplifiers, which...
Motor City's Burning: Detroit from Motown to the Stooges
Documentary looking at how Detroit became home to a musical...
Bits and Pieces About... John Lee Hooker
The blues legend John Lee Hooker was the last great...
The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966, Vol. 1
Taken from the European tours organised for American blues musicians...
John Lee Hooker - Rare Performances 1960-1984
This hour long collection of clips presents John Lee Hooker...
Wired for Sound: A Guitar Odyssey
Wired For Sound documents the role of the Gibson guitar...
John Lee Hooker - The South Bank Show
Biography
John Lee Hooker was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. The son of a sharecropper, he rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-style adaptation of Delta blues. Hooker often incorporated other elements, including talking blues and early North Mississippi Hill country blues.