National Heritage Fellowship Winners - B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, Earl Scruggs, Brownie McGhee, Bill Monroe, Doc Watson, Charles Brown (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 77. Chapters: B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, Earl Scruggs, Brownie McGhee, Bill Monroe, Doc Watson, Charles Brown, Michael Flatley, Wanda Jackson, Ralph Stanley, Zakir Hussain, National Heritage Fellowship, Mavis Staples, Ali Akbar Khan, Jerry Douglas, Frankie Manning, Elizabeth Cotten, Jean Ritchie, Simon Shaheen, Pinetop Perkins, Irvan Perez, Robert Lockwood, Jr., Albertina Walker, Henry Gray, Philip Simmons, Koko Taylor, The Dixie Hummingbirds, David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Etta Baker, Lily May Ledford, Chuck Brown, Clifton Chenier, Sonny Terry, Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman, Henry Townsend, Sunnyland Slim, Pops Staples, Violet Kazue de Cristoforo, Sophiline Cheam Shapiro, Hazel Dickens, Joao Grande, Dewey Balfa, Nimrod Workman, Francisco Aguabella, George Na'ope, Lydia Mendoza, Michael Doucet, Maude Kegg, Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin, Pedro Ayala, Wayne Henderson, Esther Martinez, Obo Addy, Norma Miller, Martin Mulvihill, Earl Barthe, Losang Samten, Cephas & Wiggins, Mick Moloney, Fatima Kuinova, T. Viswanathan, Othar Turner, Jelon Vieira, Mary Louise Defender Wilson, Tommy Jarrell, Kevin Burke, Margaret Tafoya, Boozoo Chavis, Dave Tarras, Edwin Duhon, Nancy Sweezy, Wilho Saari, Diomedes Matos, Delores Churchill, Janette Carter, Charles M. Carrillo, Herminia Albarran Romero, Helen Cordero, Vanessa Jennings, George Lopez, Melvin Wine, Joel Nelson, Dudley Laufman, Birmingham Sunlights, Santiago Jimenez, Jr., Ray Hicks, Julia Parker. Excerpt: John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1917 - June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist, born near Clarksdale, Mississippi. Hooker began his life as the son of a sharecropper, William Hooker, and rose to prominence performing his own unique style of what was originally closest to Delta blues. He developed a 'talking blues' style that was his trademark. Though similar to the early Delta ...