I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.

One song by John Lee Hooker Down Child is solely credited to Taub with Hooker receiving no credit. L. His vocal phrasing was less closely tied to specific bars than most blues singers.

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 a unique brand of country blues. Though similar to the early Delta blues his music was metrically free. John Lee Hooker (August 22 1917 – June 21 2001) was a highly influential American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist.