John Lee Hooker was born in (about) 1917 in the extremely tiny, rural town of Tutwiler, Mississippi — coincidentally the very same town where W.C. Handy first heard & documented a man singing what he called “the blues” in 1903.

Outlaw Country star Merle Haggard claimed to escape from jail/institutions seventeen times as a young man, and was inspired to pursue music when, as an inmate, he witnessed Johnny Cash famously play San Quentin.

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