   john lee hooker (august 22, 1917 â june 21, 2001) was an american blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. he was born in mississippi, the son of a sharecropper, and rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-style adaptation of delta blues. hooker often incorporated other elements, including talking blues and early north mississippi hill country blues. he developed his own driving-rhythm boogie style, distinct from the 1930sâ1940s piano-derived boogie-woogie style. some of his best known songs include "boogie chillen'" (1948), "crawling king snake" (1949), "dimples" (1956), "boom boom" (1962), and "one bourbon, one scotch, one beer" (1966) â the first being the most popular race record of 1949. ==early life== there is some debate as to the year of hooker's birth1915, 1917, 1920, and 1923 have all been cited (boogie man, p. 22). 1917 is the one most commonly cited, though hooker himself claimed, at times, 1920, which would have made him "...the same age as the recorded blues." (p. 59)in the 1920 federal census, series t625/roll 895/page 235, in the city of tutwiler, tallahatchie county, mississippi, supervisor's district 2, enumeration district 87, sheet #29 a, line 25, enumerated february 3, 1920, john hooker is one of nine children living with william and minnie hooker. john is listed as 7 years of age at his last b
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