# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/earl-hooker
# Generated: 2026-08-12T22:25:57.726Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/earl-hooker"
name: "Earl Hooker"
slug: "earl-hooker"
description: "Earl Zebedee Hooker was a Chicago blues guitarist known for his slide guitar playing. Considered a \"musician's musician\", he performed with blues artists such as Sonny Boy Williamson II, Junior Wells, and John Lee Hooker and fronted his own bands. An early player of the electric guitar, Hooker was influenced by the modern urban styles of T-Bone Walker and Robert Nighthawk. He recorded several singles and albums as a bandleader and with other well-known artists. His \"Blue Guitar\", a slide guitar instrumental single, was popular in the Chicago area and was later overdubbed with vocals by Muddy Waters as \"You Shook Me\"."
tagline: "American Chicago blues guitarist (1929–1970)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/16/American_blues_guitarist_Earl_Hooker.png"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1929-01-15"
deathDate: "1970-04-21"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.04
  momentum:             0
  historical:           15.38744133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "إيرل هوكر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ایرل هوکر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Hooker"
    title: "Earl Hooker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Hooker"
    title: "Earl Hooker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Hooker"
    title: "Earl Hooker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Hooker"
    title: "Earl Hooker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Hooker"
    title: "Earl Hooker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Hooker"
    title: "Earl Hooker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ilo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Hooker"
    title: "Earl Hooker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Hooker"
    title: "Earl Hooker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "アール・フッカー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "얼 후커"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Hooker"
    title: "Earl Hooker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%AD%D1%80%D0%BB"
    title: "Хукер, Эрл"
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  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Hooker"
    title: "Earl Hooker"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Hooker"
    title: "Earl Hooker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/ef11dd9b-4557-4fc5-b0e2-a431c5cfddbb"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1277087"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump