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John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1917 – June 21, 2001) was an influential United States|American post-war blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter born in Coahoma County, Mississippi|Coahoma County near Clarksdale, Mississippi|Clarksdale, Mississippi. From a musical family, he was a cousin of Earl Hooker. John was also influenced by his step-father, a local blues guitarist, who learned in Shreveport, Louisiana|Shreveport, Louisiana to play a droning, one-chord blues that was strikingly different from the Delta blues of the time.<ref name="palmer">{{cite book
| first= Robert
| last= Palmer
| year=1982
| title=Deep Blues
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| publisher=Penguin Books
| location=United States
| pages = p. 242-243
| id= ISBN 0-14-006223-8</ref> John developed a half-spoken style that was his trademark. Though similar to the early Delta blues, his music was rhythmically free. John Lee Hooker could be said to embody his own unique genre of the blues, often incorporating the boogie-woogie piano style and a driving rhythm into his masterful and idiosyncratic blues guitar and singing. His best known songs include "Boogie Chillen" (1948) and "Boom Boom (song)|Boom Boom" (1962).
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Hooker was born on August 22, 1917<ref>There is some debate as to the year of Hooker's birth. 1915, ... read all
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