Earl Hooker, Blues Master

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?l&t<& INTRODUCTION 1. Jim Crockett, "B. B. King As Told to Jim Crockett—My 10 Favorite Guitarists," Guitar Player (March 1975): 23. 2. Charles Keil, Urban Blues (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966), 20. CHAPTER 1: THE EARLY YEARS (1929-1946) 1. Chris Albertson, Bessie (London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1972), 25. 2. Charles S. Johnson, Shadow of the Plantation (New Brunswick and London: Transaction Pub., 1996—originally published in 1934), 186-87. 3. Quoted in Stetson Kennedy, Jim Crow Guide: The Way It Was (Boca Raton: Florida Atlantic University Press, 1992), 135. 4. Lerone Bennett Jr., Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America (NewYork: Penguin, 1993), 358. 5. Quoted in Ira Berkow, Maxwell Street: Survival in a Bazaar (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1977), 87. 6. According to Christine Hooker's birth certificate, she was the Hookers' second child. For the following years, the official records of the City of Chicago show that Mary Blair Hooker had no other children, which would tend to indicate that the other two children mentioned by Mrs. Hooker were stillborn. At any rate, all of Earl'sfriends only knewof his one sister, Christine. 327 7. Although it has usually been accepted that John Lee Hooker wasbom in 1917, he sometimes gave 1920 as his year of birth, and his daughter even suggested a 1913 birthdate. 8. George R. White, BoDiddley: Living Legend (Chessington, Surrey:Castle Communications , 1995), 28. . 9. Bill Greensmith, "Just Whaling," Blues unlimited 122 (November/December 1976): 6. 10. Horace R. Cayton and St. Clair Drake, Black Metropolis (London: Jonathan Cape, 1946), 580. 11. Bill Dahl and Jim O'Neal, "Jimmy Johnson," Living Blues 47 (Summer 1980): 21. 12. Liner notes, Earl Hooker/The Genius of Earl Hooker, Cuca KS-3400 (1968); Earl Hooker/Funk—Last of the Great Earl Hooker, Blues on Blues LP 10002 (1970). 13. Helen Oakley Dance, Stormy Monday: The T-Bone Walker Story (Baton Rouge and London: LouisianaState University Press, 1987), 66-67. 14. Cayton and Drake, Block Metropolis, 204. 15. MikeRowe, "I Was Really Dedicated," Blues Unlimited 126 (September/October 1977): 7. CHAPTER 2: ON THE ROAD (1946-1953) 1. Pete Welding, "Ramblin' Johnny Shines," Living Blues 22 (July/August 1975): 27. 2. Bill Greensmith, "We Got a Song Called 'Rocket 88,'" Blues Unlimited 135/6 (July/September 1979): 15. 3. Charles E. Cobb Jr., "Traveling the Blues Highway," National Geographic (April 1999): 65. 4. Charles Dickens, American Notes for General Circulation (London: Penguin, 1985), 215-26. 5. Jim O'Neal, "Houston Stackhouse," Living Blues 17 (Summer 1974): 30. 6. Dick Shurman, liner notes, Andrew Brown/Big Brown's Chicago Blues, Black Magic LP 9001 (1982). 7. Chicago Defender, June 11, 1949. 8. O'Neal, "Houston Stackhouse," 31. 9. Jim O'Neal, "Joe Willie Wilkins," Living Blues 11 (Winter 1972/73):15. 10. O'Neal, "Houston Stackhouse," 26. 11. Jim O'Neal, "Billythe Kid Emerson Interview," Living Blues 45/6 (Spring 1980): 29. 12. Cilia Huggins,"Ike Turner—In the Beginning,"Juke Blues 37 (Spring 1997): 12. 13. Gary Baker,"Henry Stone Interview,"Shout 80 (September 1980): 1-2. 14. MikeLeadbitter, "Mike's Blues,"Blues unlimited 102 (June 1973): 20. CHAPTER 3: THE MEMPHIS SCENE (1953) 1. Jerry Hopkins, Elvis (London: Abacus, 1974), 46. 2. Chris Strachwitz, liner notes, Earl Hooker/Two Bugs and a Roach, Arhoolie LP 1044 (1968). 3. O'Neal, "Billy the Kid Emerson Interview,"37-38. Notes 328 CHAPTER 4: THE CHICAGO COMPLEX (1953-1956) 1. "High and Lonesome," Jimmy Reed's first recording, wasput on wax in Chicago in June 1953 with Earl Hooker's friend John Brimon guitar. 2. Sic. Actually Jacksonville, in northern Florida. 3. The AmericanGuide Series: Florida (New York: Oxford University Press, 1947), 475. 4. Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel of Negro Life (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1937),197. 5. Jim O'Neal, "Jackie Brenston," Living Blues 45/6 (Spring 1980): 19. 6. Jim O'Neal, "Bobby Bland! Backstage," Living Blues 4 (Winter 1970/1971): 17-18. 7. Johnny Otis, letter to Felix Steinmann, Blues Unlimited 68 (December 1969): 17. 8. Al Smith, liner notes, Earl Hooker/Funk. The Last of the Great Earl Hooker, Blues on Blues LP 10002 (1970). 9. Chinta Strausberg, "GasShut Off Reforms Called for after Death of Woman, 60," Chicago Defender (January 12, 1995). CHAPTER 5: ZEB HOOKER (1956-1960) 1. Dick Shurman, "King of Postwar Blues Guitar—Earl Hooker," Seattle Folklore Society Newsletter, Vol. 1...