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Title: John Lee Hooker - The Blues
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1960, Blues, Electric Blues, Detroit, Michigan 6/26
Matrix #: us-7725
Condition: VG+ (CC) | Members: John L (17' - 01')
Cultural Facts:

1. Personal Struggle: Hooker was born into Mississippi sharecropper poverty, left home as a teenager, and rebuilt his life through factory work and night gigs in Detroit.
2. Scene Ecology: The material comes from Hooker’s early-50s recording world, when small labels kept blues moving through jukeboxes, storefront shops, and regional radio.
3. Media Narrative: By the LP era, labels kept repackaging Hooker’s older sides for new folk and rock listeners, turning a working bluesman into a source figure.