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	Biography: Earl Hooker
		Earl Hooker was born in Clarksdale in 1930 which made him about 15 years junior to Muddy Waters (who was also from Clarksdale), and 12 years younger than John Lee Hooker.
		Earl moved to Chicago at the age of one, and as a youngster and teenager, no doubt was exposed to the fertile blues scene there.
		Earl's earliest sides in 1952, were instrumentals, made for the King label (re-issued once on a King LP of mostly John Lee Hooker sides) and were recorded in Florida right in the club where he was playing a job.
	afgen.com /earl_hooker.html (796 words)

	il popolo del blues
		Earl went to Europe in late 1969 as part of a touring American Blues festival, but passed away only six months later, just as his star was beginning to wax.
		Earl was comfortable in the role of sideman, something he did frequently in his career, yet he explained to Chris Strachwitz that he could always exploit his ideas better within his own band.
		Hooker was foremost a mainstay of Robert Nighthawk's approach, yet Earl's style also reflected strong elements of Tampa Red, undeniably the earliest virtuoso slide guitarist of the blues (preceeding Charley Patton by several years).
	www.ilpopolodelblues.com /bman/hooker.html (2569 words)

	Earl Hooker, Blues Master
		Jimi Hendrix called Earl Hooker "the master of the wah-wah pedal." Buddy Guy slept with one of Hooker's slides beneath his pillow hoping to tap some of the elder bluesman's power.
		Tragically, Earl Hooker died of tuberculosis in 1970 when he was on the verge of international success just as the Blues Revival of the late sixties and early seventies was reaching full volume.
		Second cousin to now-famous bluesman John Lee Hooker, Earl Hooker was born in Mississippi in 1929, and reared in fl South Side Chicago where his parents settled in 1930.
	www.upress.state.ms.us /catalog/fall2000/earl_hooker.html (490 words)

	George Hatcher "Hatcher" Hooker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Hooker of near Lineville brought a load of sheep to Princeton Friday which were sold in the community sale.
		Hooker’s grandfather, Jerry Hooker, was one of the first eight families to settle in Linn County a century ago.
		Hooker was born in Browning, Missouri, and came to this country with his parents.
	www.djhooker.com /32.htm (956 words)

	Play Blues Guitar \|\| The interactive magazine for the blues enthusiast!
		Earl Zebedee Hooker (born January 2, 1929 in Vance, Mississippi, died April 21, 1970 in Chicago, Illinois) was begat by musical parents and was a cousin to John Lee Hooker.
		The limitations of Hooker’s singing voice were immediately apparent and, with a few exceptions, he concentrated on instrumentals for the remainder of his career.
		Hooker returned to Chicago as his home base in the mid-1950s while barnstorming the country with his own band and recording intermittently for a number of independent labels.
	truefire.com /playbluesguitar/feature1.html (1170 words)

	Earl Hooker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Earl Zebedee Hooker was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi in 1930.
		Earl immediately established a reputation as one of the hottest pickers on the scene.
		Earl's mastery of the Robert Nighthawk standard-tuning slide guitar style and his legendary musicianship quickly established him as a superstar of the Chicago club scene.
	www.geocities.com /bighollowtwang/EarlHooker.html (355 words)

	CMT.com : Ronnie Earl : Biography
		In 1979, Earl was invited to replace Duke Robillard in the prominent Rhode Island band Roomful of Blues, whose swinging jump blues revivalist sound demanded a jazz sensibility as well as ample blues feeling.
		Earl spent the next eight years with Roomful of Blues and watched their national profile grow steadily larger.
		Earl debuted his new instrumental direction -- which was more informed by jazz than ever before -- on 1993's Still River (released by AudioQuest) and embarked on a tour of Europe.
	www.cmt.com /artists/az/earl_ronnie/bio.jhtml (857 words)

	Earl Hooker Bluesmaster by Sebastian Danchin \| PopMatters Book Review
		Hooker's lack of acclaim depends on many factors, his bad luck and casual approach to the recording industry and his preference for the itinerant life particularly.
		Hooker was, in short, a thief and a hustler.
		Hooker's style is both economic and flashy — a mixture that we appreciate more because of some perceptive character analysis built upon solid musical criticism.
	www.popmatters.com /books/reviews/e/earl-hooker-bluesmaster.shtml (1779 words)

	Earl Hooker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Earl Hooker (January 15, 1929 – April 21, 1970) was an American blues guitarist.
		Born Earl Zebedee Hooker in Clarksdale, Mississippi, his impoverished family moved to Chicago, Illinois when he was still an infant.
		Earl Hooker died at the age of 41 after a lifelong struggle against tuberculosis and was interred in the Restvale Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Earl_Hooker (170 words)

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		Hooker always had a predilection for the latest electric guitar technology becoming famous for his double-neck guitars and even making the wah-wah pedal work in a blues context.
		Hooker was the archetype of the rambling bluesman having spent most of his life on the road.
		Hooker would eventually surpass his mentor, developing an entirely new language for the slide guitar.
	www.baddogblues.com /docs/hooker.doc (626 words)

	Bad Dog Blues Radio
		Hooker’s initial recordings cut in 1952, were instrumentals, made for the King label (re-issued once on a King LP of mostly John Lee Hooker sides) and were recorded in Florida right in the club where he was playing a job.
		Through Mel London, Hooker was involved in over a dozen recordings sessions, and his playing was featured on some forty titles and twenty-five singles, a dozen of which were released under his own name.
		Hooker is captured beautifully on the title cut, the funky "I Feel Good", "Boogie, Don't Blot!", "Drivin' Wheel" and others all featuring fine piano work from the uncredited Ernest Lane.
	www.baddogblues.com /archives/2.05/essential.htm (1092 words)

	The Mudcat John Lee Hooker Room
		John Lee Hooker was born August 22, 1917 in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
		Hooker worked in a Detroit auto plant in the mid and late 1940's.
		John Lee Hooker was finally honored in 1989 with a Grammy Award.
	www.mudcat.org /jlhooker.cfm (161 words)

	Earl Hooker - A Guitar Player's Guitarist @ Blogcritics.org
		Earls mastery of the slide guitar was such that he was asked by Muddy Waters himself to play slide on Muddy's " You Shook Me," a tune later mangled by Led Zeppelin on their first LP.
		Earl Hooker passed from this world in April of 1970 after almost 3 decades on the road, worn down from constant touring, drinking & the ravages of tuberculosis.
		Earl Hooker actually recorded an instrumental which was released in that format but then someone at Chess Records thought it would be a good idea for Muddy Waters to overdub some vocals.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2005/05/24/080325.php (1580 words)

	Downbeat Article 1992
		Earl is disarmingly open about his longtime addiction to alcohol and cocaine, and the difficult sanctuary he's found in sobriety over the last three years.
		Earl's music and conversation are characterized by a directness that challenges the listener.
		A musician like Earl, who's played with almost unheard-of integrity for years ("I've always just wanted to be a contributor to the music; I'm not interested in being a big star."), must wonder if the millenium has arrived and left him out.
	www.ronnieearl.com /pages/downbeat.html (799 words)

	John Lee Hooker - Blues Singer - Boom Boom!
		John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1917 – June 21, 2001) was an influential American blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter born in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
		In addition to adapting the occasionally traditional blues lyric (such as "if I was chief of police, I would run her right out of town"), he freely invented many of his songs from scratch.
		Hooker recorded over 100 albums and lived the last years of his life in San Francisco, California, where he licensed a nightclub to use the name Boom Boom Room, after one of his hits.
	www.jeffosretromusic.com /hooker.html (781 words)

	Earl Hooker
		Earl Hooker was a musicianss musician and a remarkably versatile and proficient guitarist.
		Hooker's guitar bites with sliding sharpness, talking using space very well as in the loping 'Earl's Blues.' The title is an earthy, long Chicago blues....
		Hooker was one of the finest guitarists and blues songwriters around but little was recorded of him.
	www.arhoolie.com /titles/468.shtml (248 words)

	Earl Hooker : Simply the Best - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A cousin of John Lee Hooker and a major disciple of Robert Nighthawk, Hooker was the man to beat, the most technically advanced of all bluesmen.
		But with Hooker, you came for the guitar playing, and there's a carload of it on this 19-track collection of his best stuff left behind in the MCA-Universal vaults.
		Whether it was fleet-fingered single-note work or the smoothest of slide playing, nobody played the blues like Earl Hooker, and here's where you go to hear some of the best of it.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,847572,00.html (312 words)

	Earl Hooker
		Earl's slide playing is true to Nighthawk's style and he delivers a sensitive vocal.
		Hooker's sense of phrasing and taste are among the assets that gained him so much respect from his peers, and this cut gives us a sense of his restraint.
		'Earl Hooker Blues' is a country inflected shuffle with the loose feel of a jam session.
	www.arhoolie.com /titles/324.shtml (419 words)

	Blues Bytes Flashback (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Earl Hooker was not the most famous of the blues guitarists who grew from the fertile blues soil of the Mississippi Delta.
		In fact, there must have been something about Hooker that brought out the best in his piano players, as the keyboard work on all cuts is solid.
		Hooker was never afraid to experiment with the various sounds he could get out of his guitar and amplifier, especially evident on the instrumental "Universal Rock." Here he punctuates some incredible guitar runs with tasteful use of a wah wah pedal.
	www.bluenight.com /BluesBytes/fk0699.html (411 words)

	Ronnie Earl - Discography
		Guitarist Ronnie Earl was featured from late '79 through the mid-'80s with Roomful of Blues, and commenced recording solo albums while still with Roomful.
		Ronnie Earl's fifth Black Top album reunited him with the fantastic Sugar Ray Norcia on vocals and harmonica; bassist Michael "Mudcat" Ward, who returns to the fold after some years; drummer Per Hanson kicks things along righteously; and keyboard duties are shared by organist Tony Zamagni and pianist Dave Maxwell.
		This is the Ronnie Earl record fans have been waiting for: blistering, raw, soulful, live" Recorded in Bremen, Germany in 1993, this is Ronnie's tribute to his major influences: Magic Sam, Freddie King, and T-Bone Walker.
	www.ronnieearl.com /pages/discography.html (1984 words)

	Billboard.com - Biography - Earl Hooker
		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).
		Back in Chicago again, Hooker's dazzling dexterity was intermittently showcased on singles for Argo, C.J., and Bea and Baby during the mid-to-late '50s before he joined forces with producer Mel London (owner of the Chief and Age logos) in 1959.
		Hooker's amazing prowess (he even managed to make the dreaded wah-wah pedal a viable blues tool) finally drew increased attention during the late '60s.
	www.billboard.com /bbcom/bio/index.jsp?pid=1308 (460 words)

	HOOKER, Earl : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		(b Earl Zebedee Hooker, 15 Jan. '30, Clarksdale MS; d 21 April '71 of TB, Chicago) Blues singer, songwriter, guitarist, multi-instrumentalist; cousin of John Lee Hooker.
		King, Argo, Checker, Blue Thumb, Blues Way, etc; Earl Hooker on Antilles; There's A Fungus Among Us (also said to be last recordings, instrumentals with Jimmy Dawkins) and The Leading Brand with singer and guitarist Jody Williams (b Joseph Leon Williams, 3 Feb. '35, Mobile AL), both on Red Lightnin' UK.
		Collections on Arhoolie were First And Last Recordings, Hooker And Steve with Miller, Two Bugs And A Roach; on One Way Sweet Black Angel; on Black Top Play Your Guitar, Mr Hooker!
	www.musicweb.uk.net /encyclopaedia/h/H138.HTM (167 words)

	Earl Hooker CD Review
		Earl Hooker was known in Chicago as a musicians musician--his guitar playing impressed people like B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Otis Rush and his second cousin, John Lee Hooker.
		Earl went on to cut mostly instrumental sides for various small labels--including a couple of 1960 sessions behind Junior Wells.
		And he turns up on a couple of his cousins tunes as well; "Messing Around With The Blues" is generally a riff boogie with John Lee intoning the title phrase a few times.
	www.mnblues.com /cdreview/cd-earlhooker.html (542 words)

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		Cuca Records is honored to have recorded the "Father of the Chicago Blues Sound" Earl Hooker (KCD 4100 "The Genius of Earl Hooker").
		An excellent book on Earl is by Sebastian Danchin of France: "Earl Hooker Blues Master" (University Press of Mississippi).
		It was through Earl that we met Jimmy Dawkins and A C Reed among other great Blues artists.
	www.cucarecords.com /press.php (646 words)

	rubiks's ROCK N ROLL REFERENCE DISCOGRAPHY
		Hooker, John Lee - "Father Was A Jockey" (Mr.
		Hooker, Zakiya - "I Want To Hug You" (From Clarkside To Heaven - Remembering John Lee Hooker comp) bluestorm/eagle 2002 Zakiya Hooker w/Johnnie Johnson o-John Lee Hooker Hooker, Zakiya - "Mean Mean World" (Another Generation Of The Blues/John Lee Hooker-'Face To Face, Volume One') 2003 Zakiya Hooker w/John Lee Hooker
		Hookers, The - (The Hookers) coldcrush 2003 or- p-Murder City Devils note-NOT the same as HOOKERS
	www.rockmusiclist.com /rock_hoo.htm (3403 words)

	Henry Stone Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		2) Earl Hooker - Master slide guitarist, born in 1930 in Clarksdale, he is John Lee Hooker's first cousin.
		I cut eight tracks with him at a tiny recording studio, one of which was a remake of the classic "Black Angel Blues", later entitled "Sweet Black Angel".
		Unfortunately, Earl died at the early age of 41 in Chicago, April 1970.
	www.henrystonemusic.com /store/blues50s.htm (536 words)

	LivinBlues- Ronnie Earl
		and Earl Hooker, Ronnie Earl caresses the strings with utmost sensitivity one moment, alternately following it by a cluster of hard-edged riffs.
		No guitarist in recent memory has plied his instrument with such unerring instinct in channeling his inner emotional state, as has Earl.
		New York-born Ronnie Earl Horvath took up guitar in 1975 at the age of 22, after being mesmerized by a Muddy Waters concert in his adopted hometown of Boston.
	www.livinblues.com /bluesrooms/ronnieearl.asp (396 words)

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