earl hooker...

 Earl Hooker : Robert Nighthawk and a boy named Leo Blevins and Kinky Blevins, two brothers, they learned me how to play music and that’s how I first got my start. First I used to be a bad, bad, boy, run around with street gangs. After I got to playing music well all this here bad stuff got out of my mind and I got interested in playing music. My first guitar that I ever bought I bought from Sears and Roebuck. I paid a dollar down and fifty cent a week.

Then I made a whole lots of records with Junior Wells. I made some with Ricky Allen. I made some with Bobby Blue Bland. Bobby Blue Bland, he used to sing for me a long time ago, me and him started out. Johnny Ace, the young fella that killed himself back in the ’50s, and he used to play piano for me. And BB King, we all started out in Memphis, Tennessee playing. (Arhoolie Foundation) 

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