NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of John Lee Hooker on 14 December 2023. John Lee Hooker has been played over 70 times on NTS, first on 31 December 2012. John Lee Hooker's music has been featured on 59 episodes.

John Lee Hooker (Coahoma County, Mississippi, August 22, 1917 – Los Altos, California, June 21, 2001) was a highly influential American blues singer, guitarist and songwriter.

John Lee Hooker could be said to embody his own unique genre of the blues, often incorporating the boogie-woogie piano style and a driving rhythm into his masterful and idiosyncratic blues guitar and singing. His best known…