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Died On This Date (April 21, 1970) Earl Hooker / Blues Guitar Great

Posted by themusicsover on April 21, 2010

Earl Hooker
January 2, 1929 – April 21, 1970

Earl Hooker was born into a family that already had one great bluesman, cousin John Lee Hooker.  Hooker taught himself to play the guitar at ten years old, and was soon living in Chicago where he honed his skills at a music school.  In Chicago, Hooker began making a name for himself by playing alongside the likes of Bo Diddley on street corners.  By the early ’50s, Hooker was living in Memphis playing with Ike Turner and Sonny Boy Williamson II.  Hooker died at the age of 41 as a result of tuberculosis.

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