John Lee Hooker

Trivia

• In 2000, Hooker was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
• He was also inducted in 1980 into the Blues Hall of Fame.
• Two of his songs, "Boogie Chillen" and "Boom Boom" were included in the list of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.
• Hooker has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and in 1991 he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
• Hooker recorded over 100 albums.
• In 1989, he joined with a number of musicians, including Carlos Santana and Bonnie Raitt to record The Healer, for which he and Santana won a Grammy Award.
• He appeared and sang in the 1980 movie "The Blues Brothers".
• His early solo songs were recorded under Bernie Besman.
• Despite being illiterate, Hooker was a prolific lyricist.
• Hooker's recording career began in 1948 when his agent placed a demo disc, made by Hooker, with the Bihari brothers, owners of the Modern Records label.

Quotes

• "I don't play a lot of fancy guitar. The kind of guitar I want to play is mean, mean, mean licks."
• "No matter what anybody says, it all comes down to the same thing. A man and a woman, a broken heart and a broken home."