Biography

Beloved worldwide as the king of the endless boogie, John Lee Hooker was a genuine blues superstar -- an American musical icon idolized by British Invasion groups like the Animals and Yardbirds -- whose droning, hypnotic, eerily mournful one-chord grooves were at once both ultra-primitive and timeless. He recorded in a great many more styles than that over a career that stretched across more than half a century, from 1948's [roviLink="MC"]"Boogie Chillen" (as primitive as anything then on the market, with Hooker's dark, ruminative vocals backed only by his own ringing, heavily amplified guitar and insistently pounding foot) through star-studded efforts like Don't Look Back. ~ Bill Dahl

Top Tracks

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• (i Got) A Good 'un

• Ain't Nobody's Business

• Apologize

• Baby Lee

• Baby Please Don't Go

• Bad Boy

• Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang

• Big Fine Girl

• Big Legs Tight Skirt

• Birmingham Blues

• Bluebird

• Bluebird Blues

• Blues Before Sunrise

• Blues For Big Town

• Blues For Christmas

• Boogie At Russian Hill

• Boogie Chillen

• Boogie Chillen'

• Boogie Chillen, No. 2

• Boogie Chillun

• Boogie Chillun'

• Boogie Rambler

• Boom Boom

• Boom, Boom

• Born Under A Bad Sign

• Bottle Up And Go

• Bumblebee, Bumblebee

• Burnin' Hell

• Burning Hell

• Canal Street Blues

• Can't You See What You're Doing To Me

• Catfish Blues

• Chill Out (things Gonna Change)

• Cold Chills

• Country Boy

• Crawlin' Black Spider

• Crawlin' King Snake

• Crawlin' Kingsnake

• Crawling King Snake

• Dazie Mae

• Decoration Day Blues

• Devil's Jump

• Dimples

• Dirty Ground Hog

• Do My Baby Think Of Me?

• Do The Boogie

• Don't Look Back

• Don't Turn Me From Your Door

• Down Child

• Dreamin' Blues

• Driftin' Blues

• Drifting From Door To Door

• Dusty Road

• Early One Morning

• Endless Boogie, Pts. 27-28

• Everybody Rockin'

• Feel So Bad

• Freight Train Be My Friend

• Funky Mabel

• Gangster Blues

• Goin' Down Slow

• Good Rockin' Mama

• Gotta Boogie

• Graveyard Blues

• Ground Hog Blues

• Guitar Blues Instrumental

• Hard Times

• Hellhound On My Tail

• Hey Baby, You Look Good To Me

• Hey Boogie

• Highway Blues

• Hobo Blues

• Hoogie Boogie

• House Rent Boogie

• Howlin' Wolf

• Huckle Up Baby

• I Been Done So Wrong

• I Bought You A Brand New Home

• I Don't Want Your Money

• I Feel Good

• I Got Drunk

• I Rule My Den (aka Crawling King Snake)

• I'm Bad Like Jesse James

• I'm Gonna Kill That Woman

• I'm In The Mood

• I'm Leaving

• I'm Mad

• I'm Mad Again

• I'm Ready

• I'm So Excited

• I'm Your Crosscut Saw

• In The Evening When The Sun Goes Down

• It Serves Me Right To Suffer

• It Serves You Right To Suffer

• It's My Own Fault

• Jealous

• John L's House Rent Boogie

• Jump Me One More Time

• Just Me And My Telephone

• Key To The Highway

• Lawdy Miss Clawdy

• Leave My Wife Alone

• Let's Make It

• Locked Up In Jail (prison Blues)

• Lonely Boy Boogie

• Long Tall Sally

• Love In Vain

• Loving People

• Low Down Midnite Boogie

• Mad Man Blues

• Maudie

• Mean Mean World

• Mean Mistreatin'

• Medley: Serves Me Right To Suffer/syndicator

• Miss Sadie Mae

• Moanin' Blues

• Money (that's What I Want)

• Moon Is Rising

• My Daddy Was A Jockey

• Need Somebody

• No Rollin' Blues

• No Shoes

• Off The Hook

• Old Time Shimmy

• One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer

• Onions

• Peace Lovin' Man

• Peavine

• Please Don't Go

• Please Take Me Back

• Poor Joe

• Queen Bee

• Reconsideration Blues

• Red House

• Ride 'til I Die

• Rock House Boogie

• Rock With Me

• Rockin' With The Kid

• Roll And Tumble

• Rollin' Blues

• Rosie Mae

• Sad And Lonesome

• Sally Mae

• Send Me Your Pillow

• Serve Me Right To Suffer

• Shake It Baby

• She's Long, She's Tall (she Weeps Like A Willow Tree)

• She's Real Gone

• Sittin' Here Thinkin'

• Slim's Stomp

• Snap Them Fingers Boogie

• Stomp Boogie

• Stuttering Blues

• Sugar Mama

• T.b. Sheets

• Taxi Driver

• Teasin' Me

• Terraplane Blues

• The Feelin' Is Gone

• The Healer

• The Journey

• The Motor City Is Burning

• The Syndicator

• The Things That I Used To Do

• Think Twice Before You Go

• This Is Hip

• Three Voice Original Mood (aka I'm In The Mood)

• Too Much Boogie

• Trouble Blues

• Trouble In Mind

• Tupelo

• Two White Horses

• Walkin' The Boogie

• Walking The Boogie

• Wandering Blues

• Want Ad Blues

• Wednesday Evening Blues

• Weeping Willow

• Weeping Willow Boogie

• Where Did You Stay Last Night

• Whiskey And Wimmen

• Whiskey And Wimmen'

• Wobbling Baby

• Worried Life Blues

Discography

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• Mr. Lucky

  Point Blank

  1991

• Lonesome Road

  MCA

  1990

• The Healer

  Zomba

  1989

• John Lee Hooker Live

  Tomato

  1988

• Detroit Blues

  Flyright (UK)

  1987

• Infinite Boogie

  Rhino

  1986

• Hooker N' Heat: Recorded Live at the Fox Venice Theatre

  Rhino/WEA

  1981

• John Lee, Vol. 1

  Ace

  1981

• Sittin' Here Thinkin'

  32 Records / 32 Blues / 32 Jazz

  1980

• This Is Hip

  Charly Records

  1980

• Everybody Rockin'

  Charly Records

  1980

• I'll Play the Blues for You [1977]

  Rhino

  1977

• Black Snake

  Fantasy

  1977

• Alone

  Rhino

  1976

• Free Beer and Chicken

  Beat Goes On

  1974

• Kabuki Wuki

  Blues Way

  1973

• Never Get Out of the Blues Alive

  MCA

  1972

• I Feel Good!

  Jewel / Jewel

  1971

• Endless Boogie

  MCA

  1971

• Goin' Down Highway 51

  Fantasy/Specialty

  1971

• Hooker 'n Heat

  EMI Music Distribution / Capitol

  1971

• If You Miss 'Im...I Got 'Im

  Beat Goes On

  1970

• Moanin' and Stompin' Blues

  1970

• John Lee Hooker on the Waterfront

  Wand

  1970

• Slims Stomp

  Polydor

  197?

• Get Back Home

  Evidence

  1969

• Simply the Truth

  1969

• That's Where It's At!

  Stax

  1969

• Urban Blues

  Beat Goes On

  1969

• Live at Cafe Au Go-Go (And Soledad Prison)

  MCA

  1967

• Live at Cafe Au Go Go

  Beat Goes On

  1967

• It Serves You Right to Suffer

  MCA / Universal Special Products

  1966

• The Real Folk Blues

  MCA/Chess

  1966

• Hooker & the Hogs

  Indigo

  1965

• The Great John Lee Hooker

  P-Vine Records

  1964

• On Campus

  Collectables

  1964

• John Lee Hooker at Newport

  Vee-Jay

  1964

• The Big Soul of John Lee Hooker

  Collectables

  1964

• Great Blues Sounds

  United Recordings

  1964

• I Want to Shout the Blues

  1964

• Burnin'

  Collectables

  1962

• Tupelo Blues

  Riverside Records

  1962

• Drifting the Blues

  United Recordings

  1962

• The Blues

  Disky Communications

  1962

• The Folk Lore of John Lee Hooker

  Collectables

  1961

• John Lee Hooker Plays and Sings the Blues

  MCA/Chess

  1961

• The Country Blues of John Lee Hooker

  Riverside Records

  1960

• House of the Blues

  MCA/Chess

  1960

• Travelin'

  Collectables

  1960

• I'm John Lee Hooker

  Shout! Factory

  1960

• That's My Story

  Original Blues Classics

  1960

• Blues Man

  Battle

  1960

• Highway of Blues

  Audio Lab Records / King

  196?

• Folk Blues

  1959