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Top: Arts: Music: Styles: B: Blues: Bands_and_Artists: H
| If a category exists for the band or artist your site is about, please submit it to that specific category. Otherwise, please submit it to the appropriate letter or digit category of the alphabar. Sites in the main alphabar categories will be listed with the band or artist's name as the site title. Individuals will be listed last name, first name. Bands with "The" will be listed as "Band, The". To improve the value of your description, please include following information about the band or artist in your description: - the style(s) of blues being played. Examples: Chicago blues, jump blues, blues rock, acoustic, electric, etc.; - the base location: city and state or city and country; - whether the site is an official site or a fan site; - include website features such as image galleries, biographies, gig schedule, etc. |
Websites that represent single Blues bands, acts or artists starting with the letter "H".
John Lee Hooker took the Delta blues from his native Mississippi - via Memphis and Cincinnati - to Detroit in 1943. Six years later, his solo debut "Boogie Chillen" hit the top of the R&B charts. It was the beginning of a discography that would list over 900 recordings by the bluesman who would be dubbed the King of Boogie.
When I sing these songs I feel them down deep and reach you down deep.
British blues rockers embraced John Lee in the early 1960's, with US bands soon to follow. He toured Europe and the US, collaborated with Van Morrison and Canned Heat, made a cameo appearance in The Blues Brothers, and was inducted into the Blues Foundation's Hall of Fame.
Do I think I'm cool? I don't know. I know I'm for real.
At the urging of Van Morrison, John Lee recorded The Healer (1989) with his friends, including Bonnie Raitt, Carlos Santana, and Robert Cray. And John Lee hit the mainstream, 40 years after he first climbed that R&B chart. The album sold more than any of his previous releases and won a Grammy for best blues recording. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and received more Grammys, including a lifetime achievement award in 2000.
When I die they'll bury the blues with me. But the blues will never die.
John Lee Hooker died in his sleep June 21, 2001, at the age of 83.
Country-blues singer/guitarist John Smith Hurt (1893-1966) was discovered in the late 1920's. He made several recordings and then returned to sharecropping in Mississippi during the Depression. In 1963, two young blues musicians set out to find him, and did, at the age of 71. Rediscovered, he recorded and played clubs and folk festivals in the Northeast US until his death a few years later.
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