Chapter 6:
Bluesmen/Blueswomem
- Detroit blues
John Lee
Hooker is believed to have been born August 22, 1917 on a farm south of
Clarksdale, Mississippi, but conflicting reports place his birth anywhere from
1912 to 1923.
His first
instrument was strips of inner tube nailed to the side of a barn, soon
afterwards, his sister's boyfriend gave him an old guitar just to keep him
away.
In 1943,
"The Hook" settled in Detroit and began his music career. After
working with T-Bone Walker for two years, he released his first record in 1948,
the smash hit "Boogie Chillin".
During the
1960s, Hooker worked with English rockers like John Mayall and the Yardbirds,
making him a hit in England. In the 1970s, he worked with "Canned
Heat", who had been devotees of his from the start.
Hooker
never stopped gigging in his later years, and would often appear unannounced in
blues clubs and treat the crowd to a surprise performance by one of the
greatest names in blues.
John Lee
Hooker died in his sleep in Los Altos, California on June 21, 2001. His son,
John Lee Hooker, Jr. continues in his fathers footsteps, playing his own brand
of jazz-blues
-B.B king
B. Riley
King, son of Albert King (not the famed bluesman) and Ella King, was born on
September 16, 1925, in the small town of IttaBenna in the state of Mississippi.
IttaBenna was istante all, except in towns like Inverness, where Howlin 'Wolf
was born, or Rolling Fork, home of Muddy Waters or Richland, where Elmore James
was born. It is important that the concept of near today can not be applied to
rural Mississippi of the 30s and 40s, when the fact of owning a mule already a
huge privilege. At age four, his parents separated and BB he grew up under the
care of his maternal grandparents in the small Kilmichael, in the state of
Mississippi.
Her mother
died when King was only nine years. The first guitar came five years later and
in the same time, he began singing in choirs gospeis.
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