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Earl Hooker

CTL-P-0336 · Person

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Combined Graph record U-01724 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-P-0336. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.

Slide guitarist; Chicago

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Slide guitarist; Chicago

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Guitarist Earl Zebedee Hooker, 'the blues guitarists' guitarist' and the most respected six-string player in Chicago blues musicians' circles during the 1950s and '60s; raised in Chicago; a protege of slide guitar master Robert Nighthawk; died of tuberculosis in Chicago on April 21, 1970 (Blues Foundation Hall of Fame biography text).

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