Additional Info & Links The King of the Boogie, John Lee Hooker was also one of the last links to the pre-war blues tradition. A true original, his droning, hypnotic one-chord grooves were at once both ultra-primitive and timeless. But John Lee Hooker recorded in a great many more styles than that over a career that stretched back more than half a century. The Hook, a Mississippi native, became the top gent on the Detroit blues circuit in the years following World War II. Click on the thumbnail to the right to see John Lee Hooker's handprints in cement. Click on the thumbnail to the right to see photos of John Lee Hooker. Click on the thumbnail to the right to see the items John Lee Hooker has left in the RockWalk Archives.