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  John Lee Hooker
John Lee Hooker, the greatest of all bluesmen passed away peacefully in his sleep in the morning of June 21, 2001 at his home in the San Francisco Bay area, at the age of 83.
Hooker influenced countless generations of musicians and inspired music fans around the world during his sixty year career.
John Lee Hooker, legendary blues original and undisputed father of the boogie, recorded for dozens of labels over a span of over 50 years.
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 JOHN HOOKER
Hooker, for many years the reporter of the court, presented to the judges his resignation of the office on the 2d day of October, 1893, in the following communication:
Hooker began his labors as reporter in 1858, and by far the greater part of the whole series of Connecticut Reports has been his work.
Hooker's successor, his term to commence on the first day of January, 1894.
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  John Michael Hooker #840
Hooker, 49, was convicted of the March 27, 1988, murders of his common-law wife Sylvia Stokes, 28, and her mother Durcilla Morgan, 53, at an Oklahoma City apartment.
Hooker was convicted of the murders and sentenced to death.
Hooker had a previous felony conviction involving the use or threat of violence; (2) he knowingly created a great risk of death to more than one person; (3) the murders were especially heinous, atrocious or cruel; and (4) a probability existed he would commit future acts of violence constituting a continuing threat to society.
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 John Lee Hooker
Beyond his ability to lock into a hypnotic boogie groove, Hooker is renowned for the gruff emotionality of his voice and the stark intensity of his guitar playing.
Hooker was born on August 22, 1917, to a sharecropping family in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
Hooker appeared in The Blues Brothers movie, sang the title role on Pete Townshend’s concept album The Iron Man, and has duetted with Van Morrison.
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 (Hooker John D Jr. PC Attorney - Virginia Beach, VA) Attorney Bios
Hooker obtained his undergraduate degree from Hampden-Sydney College, followed by his Juris Doctorate at the Marshall School of Law of the College of William and Mary.
Hooker is a criminal defense lawyer representing clients in both Federal and State courts.
Hooker has served on many committees in the Virginia Beach Bar Association to include having served as the President in 1991, the executive committee both prior and after 1991, and is currently serving on the Past Presidents Council.
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 OBITUARY SKETCH OF JOHN HOOKER
JOHN HOOKER - late reporter for this court - died at his residence in Hartford, February 12th, 1901.
His father was Edward Hooker, the fifth in direct descent from Thomas Hooker, founder of Hartford and first minister of its first church.
He must have not only the faculty of lucid statement, which is very rare, but a quick, acute, logical and analytical mind, giving an intuitive perception of the real merits of the case, and furnishing a solvent that will extract the little particles of gold concealed in the incumbering verbiage.
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 John Lee Hooker   (Site not responding. Last check: )
John Lee's contact with music had until 1929, been restricted to the hymns he sang in church, found in Moore not only a stepfather but an inspirational blues teacher who taught John Lee to play acoustic guitar.
John Lee was due to make a long awaited trip to Britain to top the bill at the Bishopstock blues festival, but due to illness had to cancel the month before.
John Lee Hooker blues guitarist died at his home Los Altos surrounded by family and friends of natural causes on Thursday 21st June 2001, he is survived by eight children, 19 grandchildren and many great grandchildren.
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 John Irving Hooker   (Site not responding. Last check: )
John Hooker was born in Georgia in 1822.
John Hooker opened the doors of the government buildings which he owned and invited the whole community to take shelter.
Hooker died in 1862 at the age of 40 and is buried in the Old Fort Meade Cemetery.
www.hcso.tampa.fl.us /Sheriffs/02_John_Hooker.htm   (222 words)

  
 John Lee Hocker Foundation
John Lee Hooker was born in the Mississippi Delta in 1917 or 1920, depending on whom you hear it from.
At age 14, John Lee headed north to escape the crush of the Great Depression and the omnipresence of the religious, who had decreed that blues music was the devil's music.
John Lee Hooker was able to play the blues music that he had learned from his stepfather and build a substantial following among the workers who originated in the rural South.
www.johnleehookerfoundation.org /history.html   (953 words)

  
 Trail of the Hellhound: John Lee Hooker
Hooker sang in the church choir as a child and, like B.B. King, performed with several gospel groups at church functions.
Hooker later credited his stepfather for teaching him this style, which is more closely associated with Louisiana blues than Mississippi Delta blues.
Hooker continued to enjoy success during the 1960s blues revival, his raw, primal blues striking a responsive chord with a burgeoning white audience.
www.cr.nps.gov /delta/blues/people/johnlee_hooker.htm   (524 words)

  
 George Hatcher "Hatcher" Hooker
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.
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 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.
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.
Among his many awards, John Lee Hooker has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and in 1991 he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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 John Lee Hooker - RIP -
It is also an interesting fact that Hooker explored the use of multi-tracking on this number, as he sang all of the background vocals, recording his voice three times and overdubbing one atop the other.
Hooker was quite taken by the knowledge of the band's leaders, Bob Hite and Al Wilson.
John Lee once told his biographer, Charles Shaar Murray, "When I die, they'll bury the Blues with me. But, the Blues will never die." As long as we have the recordings of John Lee Hooker and the memories of his live performances, the Blues and John Lee Hooker will live on forever.
www.cascadeblues.org /History/JohnLeeHooker.htm   (2897 words)

  
 John Lee Hooker, Jr::::Intrepid Artists International, Inc
"John Lee Hooker Jr., the son of a 20th Century blues legend, stands at the crossroads of a new era for blues with a confidence and mastery that will only intensify an already superlative family tradition.
Regardless that his father was the legendary blues pioneer, John Lee Hooker, he knew at that moment, he wanted to be a world-class musician.
John Lee Hooker, Jr is featured on the January/February 2007 cover of French publication of Blues Magazine.
www.intrepidartists.com /johnleehookerjr.html   (782 words)

  
 John Hooker - Australian and New Zealand author, editor and publisher
FTER graduating from Auckland University, Hooker migrated to New Zealand's deep south as a bookseller with writerly aspirations.
When a Hooker story was published in the prestigious American journal Evergreen Review, an avant garde bimonthly then prohibited in NZ, it shook local literary circles.
In 1969, Hooker was recruited by Penguin for what became a ten-year stint that saw him ultimately as publisher and board member, and during the which he both scandalised and helped propel into international awareness the Australian publishing scene.
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 Official Ticketmaster site. John Lee Hooker tickets, concerts and tour dates
Hooker heard Memphis calling while he was still in his teens, but he couldn't gain much of a foothold there.
Hooker became the point man for the growing Detroit blues scene during this incredibly prolific period, recruiting guitarist Eddie Kirkland as his frequent duet partner while still recording for Modern.
Once again, Hooker was resting on his laurels by allowing his guests to wrest much of the spotlight away from him on his own album, but by then, he'd earned it.
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 American Capital - - John Hooker
Hooker joined American Capital in January 2006 as Vice President of Debt Capital Markets, where his responsibilities include the structuring and raising of debt for American Capital and its managed funds, asset/liability management, and management of global banking relationships.
Hooker was also instrumental in creating its inaugural franchise finance securitization and follow-on issuances of approximately $800 million.
Hooker graduated magna cum laude from Florida State University with a BS in Finance, and graduated with honors with an MBA from The Crummer School of Business at Rollins College.
www.americancapitalonline.com /acas/our_people/people/john_hooker.html   (198 words)

  
 Re: John Hooker d 1790 Tyrell County, NC
First, Elizabeth Mary (Swain) Hooker, 1st wife of John Hooker, died before August 1765, since she is shown as deceased in the estate papers of her sister, Martha Swain, of Tyrrell Co., NC.
Re: John Hooker d 1790 Tyrell County, NC Ernest Hooker 10/08/02
Re: John Hooker d 1790 Tyrell County, NC Nadine Newhouse 9/17/03
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 John Jay Hooker Blog
Hooker is calling his campaign "The Spirit of 76" in honor of the year the Declaration of Independence was ratified, as well as a nod to his age once his Aug. 24 birthday passes.
Hooker was the Democratic nominee for governor in 1970.
Hooker said he also planned to run as an Independent in the November 2006 U.S. Senate race to fill the seat Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is giving up.
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 History and Biography
John Owen On the Spirit in the Life of Christ by Sinclair Ferguson.
Thomas Hooker: Beholding the Majesty of God The first part of the series above, which includes a biographical sketch of Hooker and some historical background for understanding his significance.
John Bunyan was imprisoned for twelve years after 1662.
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 John Hooker
John Hooker, Logic-based modeling, in G. Appa and H. Williams, eds., Modelling for Discrete Optimization, Kluwer, to appear.
Chandru and J. Hooker, Extended Horn clauses in propositional logic, Journal of the ACM 38 (1991) 203-221.
Hooker, A. Rose and G. Roberts, A holistic approach to vehicle simulation, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation 25 (1983) 259-267.
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 Amazon.com: Hooker: Music: John Lee Hooker   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Hooker was active for more than 50 years, and in the early years recorded under a variety of pseudonyms so this is quite a daunting task.
Longtime Hooker collectors will have most of this music already, but those looking for an overview of the great musician's entire career should be pleased.
But, if you type in John Lee Hooker: Portrait, which is tha name of this killer box set, you'll come to the page of this box set.
www.amazon.com /Hooker-John-Lee/dp/B000IU3YN2   (1229 words)

  
 John Lee Hooker - The World´s Greatest Blues Singer
Born in 1917 to Mississippi sharecroppers, John Lee Hooker first heard blues on a wind-up Victrola and on KFFA-FM in nearby Helena, Ark. His parents were convinced that blues was the music of the devil and insisted that he practice in the barn.
John Lee´s mother was Minnie Ramsey (born in Glendora, Miss 1875 or possibly 1880), married to his father (sharecropper and spare-time preacher) William (indexed Wildred) Hooker, who was born in North Carolina around 1871 (or possibly 1865).
Hooker started his career (eventually leading to become the world´s foremost "traditional blues" singer) via his arrival in Detroit in circa 1943, first working at a receiving hospital and later at Dodge and Comco Steel (possibly also as a janitor at the Chrysler car plant).
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 John Lee Hooker - The World´s Greatest Blues Singer
Hooker was also influenced by Tommy McClennan and much of Hooker´s greatness may be due to his natural youth mix of gospel and blues.
Hooker´s debut record was cut at United Sound Studios for Bernie Besman (born 1912 - dies January 10, 2003) - with Joe Siracuse, engineer, in September 1948.
Hooker was contracted to Art Rupe's Specialty Records in early 1954 (only one single was issued), but the Modern recordings continued for a while later, and the last Modern recordings were made early 1955 (or possibly late 1954).
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 John Lee Hooker
John Lee Hooker is one of the original innovators and kings of African American popular music, commonly called the blues.
Hooker introduced a style to which every white blues band since 1962 must trace at least half their roots.(Stratyner 112).
Hooker was the first great recorded practioner of the electric blues-rock-funk and stream of consciousness boogie.
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 John Lee Hooker Jr. CD Review
John Lee's woman calls him 'Steve' and then it was on.
John Lee also does "Dimples" and One Coke, One Sprite And Root Beer, I mean "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" from his fathers collection.
John Lee is gonna take his Vengeance on Saddam Hussein in "Goin' Down To Baghdad".
www.mnblues.com /cdreview/2005/jlhookerjr-veng-dmm.html   (751 words)

  
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 Re: John Hooker d 1790 Tyrell County, NC
In Reply to: Re: John Hooker d 1790 Tyrell County, NC by sharon marsalis
Yes, the John Hooker who left the will in Tyrrell Co., NC, in 1790 was the same John Hooker who was Sheriff of Tyrrell County.
The John Hooker, Sr., of the 1786 Mill Tail/Tyrrell Co., NC census was Sheriff John Hooker.
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 Phoenix - Music - John Lee Hooker Jr.
Phoenix - Music - John Lee Hooker Jr.
was a featured player in John Lee Sr.'s road show, and then spent the next 20 years fighting the demons of drugs, drink, divorce, and jail.
Given his troubled past, you might expect Junior's music to be even more dark and dangerous than his father's primal squall, but one of the hallmarks of Junior's music is its wry humor.
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 John Lee Hooker Contest
Win an Epiphone Sheraton II, one of John Lee Hookers favorite guitars, courtesy of Epiphone.
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Check out the profile of John Lee in the next issue of Backstage Pass, Gibsons award-winning web magazine.
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