HOOKER, JOHN LEE. Bluesman ( in Clarksdale, Mississippi). He began playing guitar at the age of thirteen, taught by his stepfather, Willie Moore, a professional bluesman. He also learned by listening to
(Blind
) Lemon Jefferson
,
Charley Patton
, and others who played in his home and in the community. He left home at fourteen to live in Memphis, Tennessee; later he lived in Cincinnati, Ohio, and finally settled in Detroit, Michigan, by the time he was twenty. In 1948...