Earl hooker biography

          Earl Zebedee Hooker was a Chicago blues guitarist known for his slide guitar playing.

        1. Earl Hooker was the 'blues guitarists' guitarist,' the most respected six-string wizard in Chicago blues musicians' circles during the s and '60s.
        2. Earl Zebedee Hooker (January 15, – April 21, ) was a.
        3. Earl Hooker is considered to be one of the most important blues guitarists of the post-war era.
        4. Earl Hooker (born January 15, in Clarksdale, Mississippi; died April 21, in Chicago, Illinois) was an American blues guitarist.

          5. Earl Zebedee Hooker (January 15, – April 21, ) was a..

          Earl Hooker

          Earl Hooker (born January 15, 1929 in Clarksdale, Mississippi; died April 21, 1970 in Chicago, Illinois) was an Americanbluesguitarist.

          Life and career

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          Early life

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          Earl Hooker was born Earl Zebedee Hooker in Clarksdale, Mississippi. He taught himself to play guitar around the age of 10 and began going to the Lyon & Healy Music School in 1941 soon after.[1]

          Teen life

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          While a teen, Hooker played on Chicago street corners, sometimes with Bo Diddley.

          Second cousin to now-famous bluesman John Lee Hooker, Earl Hooker was born in Mississippi in , and reared in black South Side Chicago where his parents.

          He also became friends with slide guitarist Robert Nighthawk, which led to Hooker playing slide guitar and some performances with Nighthawk's group outside of Chicago.

          First band

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          In 1949, Hooker moved to Memphis, joined Ike Turner's band, and played in the South.

          Hooker made his first recordings mainly 78 rpm and 45 rpm records in 1952 and 1953 for small labels Rockin', King, and Sun. Hooker spen