Earl Hooker

Earl Hooker

Earl Hooker

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Top Songs

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Don't Have To Worry
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Hooker n' Steve
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Strung out Woman Blues
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New Riviera
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Off the Hook

Albums

  • Sun Records Originals: Blue Guitar

    Jun 2023 • 11 songs

  • Theresa Fungus Amung Us

    Oct 2006 • 12 songs

  • Blue Guitar

    Oct 2006 • 21 songs

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Earl Hooker

Biography

If there was a more immaculate slide guitarist residing in Chicago during the 1950s and '60s than Earl Hooker, his name has yet to surface. Boasting a fretboard touch so smooth and clean that every note rang as clear and precise as a bell, Hooker was an endlessly inventive axeman who would likely have been a star had his modest vocal abilities matched his instrumental prowess and had he not been dogged by tuberculosis (it killed him at age 41). Born in the Mississippi Delta, Hooker arrived in Chicago as a child. There he was influenced by another slide wizard, veteran Robert...
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