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 John Lee Hooker's 1959 Guild Aristocrat M-75 - Seattle, WA
N 47° 37.298 W 122° 20.911
10T E 548951 N 5274453
Located within the Museum of Pop Culture is a gallery containing rare guitars belonging to some of the best musicians in the U.S. Admission fees apply.
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Location: Washington, United States
Date Posted: 08/30/2017
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Over 50 guitars are located in the Guitar Gallery: The Quest for Volume within the Museum of Pop Culture. One of them is a 1959 Guild Aristocrat M-75 guitar once played by John Lee Hooker. A nearby placard reads:
A pioneer of electrified Delta Blues, John Lee Hooker was a prolific artist who thrilled audiences for nearly six decades,
releasing hundreds of tracks until his death in 2001. Hit records such as "Boom Boom," "One Bourbon, One Scotch and One Beer,"
"Dimples" and many others have been covered by such diverse artists as Santana, Muddy Waters, the Doors, The Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, and Nick Cave.
Born in Mississippi, Hooker started playing his idiosyncratic,
mesmerizing style of acoustic blues in Detroit in the early 1940s. But he needed more volume as his often-raucous audiences grew. In 1947, guitarist T-Bone Walker gave him an electric guitar, and Hooker never looked back. IN the intervening decades,
Hooker played numerous guitars, including this semi-hollow body 1959 Guild Aristocrat M-75. Hooker was photographed with his then-new guitar the same year on Hastings Street in Detroit,
outside of Joe's Record Shop, when he recorded numerous tracks over the years.
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