August 22, 1917 – John Lee Hooker is born in Clarksdale, Miss. By 1932, when he was 15, he leaves and eventually lands in Cincinnati, where he plays guitar at speakeasies on Reading Road and in churches on Sundays. Working at a spring factory, he lives in Cincinnati for four years before heading to Detroit and the world stage: Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom....Gonna shoot you right down.....
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