Earl Zebedee Hooker (January 15, 1930 – April 21, 1970) was a Chicago blues guitarist known for his slide guitar playing. Considered a "musician's musician"...
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Slide guitar (section Earl Hooker)
Since the 1930s, performers including Robert Johnson, Robert Nighthawk, Earl Hooker, Elmore James, and Muddy Waters popularized slide guitar in electric...
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Lee Hooker, and Howlin' Wolf. He played harmonica on numerous charting blues albums. He was also for a period of time, a side man in Earl Hooker's band...
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Dixon wrote the lyrics and Earl Hooker provided the instrumental backing; the song features Waters' vocal in unison with Hooker's slide-guitar melody. "You...
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professional basketball player Jazz Gillum (1904–1966), blues harmonica player Earl Hooker (1929–1970), blues guitarist Big Walter "Shakey" Horton (1918–1981),...
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accompanying him on "Jackson Town Gal" in 1950. In the 1950s, Perkins joined Earl Hooker and began touring. He recorded "Pinetop's Boogie Woogie" at Sam Phillips's...
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recorded with various notable blues musicians, including Muddy Waters, Earl Hooker, and Buddy Guy. He remained a fixture on the blues scene throughout his...
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members into individual traps, starting with Earl Hooker, who is fixated on Chato's wife. Finding Earl's dead body staked out in the desert, the posse...
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volleyball player Earl Hooker (1929–1970), American blues guitarist Elon Huntington Hooker (1869–1938), American entrepreneur Evelyn Hooker (1907–1996), American...
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Willie Dixon. The instrumentation was recorded first by slide guitarist Earl Hooker and backing musicians, then Chicago blues artist Muddy Waters overdubbed...
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Sonny Boy Williamson II, Lowell Fulson, Choker Campbell, Elmore James, Earl Hooker, Muddy Waters, Otis Spann, Sunnyland Slim, Jimmy Dawkins and Son Seals...
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1972 The Trial of the Catonsville Nine George Mische 1972 Chato's Land Earl Hooker 1973 Kamouraska Georges Nelson 1973 The Friends of Eddie Coyle Dave Foley...
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singer, and songwriter. Over a long career, he has worked with Magic Sam, Earl Hooker, B.B. King, Jimi Hendrix, Jesse Fuller, Spencer Davis, Ian Gillan, Do-Re-Mi...
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Consisting mostly of covers of blues hits, it includes a medley of John Lee Hooker's "House Rent Boogie" and "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer", the latter...
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1943 and 1944, he played at the Maxwell Street market in a band with Earl Hooker. By 1951 he was playing on the street with backing from Roosevelt Jackson...
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ABC-Paramount Records, begun by Bob Thiele in 1966. Artists such as John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Reed, Jimmy Rushing, Otis Spann, and T-Bone Walker were among those...
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substituting a lyric and calling it "Sweet Little Angel"; in 1953, Earl Hooker recorded it as "Sweet Angel". In 1956, B.B. King recorded "Sweet Little...
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member of Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm. He also sang with blues guitarist Earl Hooker. O'Neal used various pseudonyms such as Brother Bell, Burntface Brother...
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of Chicago blues artists Elmore James, Junior Wells, Magic Sam, and Earl Hooker, the label had a diverse roster and included R&B artists Lillian Offitt...
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Acid Queen". Discogs. "Ike & Tina Turner - Golden Empire". Discogs. "Earl Hooker – Sweet Black Angel". Discogs. "One Hurt Deserves Another (song by The...
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Howlin' Wolf 1962: Wolf Sings the Blues Albert King 1962: The Big Blues Earl Hooker 1969: Sweet Black Angel Gorillaz 2005: Demon Days Blues trail Ike-Turner...
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Ed. Rolling Stone History of Rock Music Danchin, Sebastian (2001). Earl Hooker, Blues Master. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1578063079....
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The title stems from an identically titled track by Junior Wells and Earl Hooker, with the rhythmic similarity to "Shame, Shame, Shame" by Jimmy Reed...
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If You Miss 'Im...I Got 'Im (category Earl Hooker albums)
Miss 'Im...I Got 'Im is an album by blues musician John Lee Hooker with his cousin Earl Hooker released by the BluesWay label in 1970. The AllMusic review...
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2 Bugs and a Roach (category Earl Hooker albums)
2 Bugs and a Roach is an album by blues musician Earl Hooker released by the Arhoolie label in 1969. Jimmy Page wanted a Gibson EDS-1275 guitar, after...
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and Matt "Guitar" Murphy. He has worked with blues musicians, such as Earl Hooker, Lonnie Brooks, Sonny Boy Williamson II, and Robert Knighthawk. Emerson...
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quantities, was used by a number of notable musicians. Chicago bluesman Earl Hooker is seen holding one on the cover of the 1969 albums Two Bugs and a Roach...
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Sweet Black Angel is an album by blues musician Earl Hooker released on the Blue Thumb label in 1969. The album was co-produced by musician Ike Turner...
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Besides his own albums, he recorded as an accompanist or duo artist with Earl Hooker, Robert Nighthawk, Lowell Fulson, Eddie Taylor, Louisiana Red and Jimmy...
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future guitarists including Chet Atkins, Scotty Moore, Doc Watson, and Earl Hooker, though many used two fingers rather than just the index as Travis had...
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