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Joel Hopkins, Bed, Torn, Goin' Home, Creepers

“Blue Light Boogie”, Cozy Eggleston, Honkers And Barwalkers vol. 1 (various artists), Delmark Records

“Matchbox Blues”, Joel Hopkins, The Hopkins Brothers: Lightnin’, Joel and John Henry, Arhoolie Records

“Home With Mama”, Joel Hopkins, The Hopkins Brothers: Lightnin’, Joel and John Henry, Arhoolie Records

“I Walked From Dallas”, Joel Hopkins, The Hopkins Brothers: Lightnin’, Joel and John Henry, Arhoolie Records

“Bed Spring Poker”, Mississippi Sheiks, The Best Of Mississippi Sheiks, Columbia/ Legacy Recordings

“Featherbed Mama”, Eddie Vinson, Battle Of The Blues vol. 3 (various artists), King Records

“Empty Bed Blues”, Maria Muldaur, Naughty Bawdy And Blue, Stony Plain Records

“King Size Bed”, Los Colognes, Working Together, Electric Western Records

“Tore Up Over You”, Nappy Brown, Tore Up Alligator Records

“Tore Up (From The Floor Up)”, Halley Devestern Band, Fabbo! Boffo! Smasho!,self release

“Tore Up”, Duke Robillard, Stomp! The Blues Tonight, Stony Plain Records

“Tore Down”, Eric Clapton, From The Cradle, Reprise Records

“I’m Going Home”, Charlie Musselwhite, Juke Joint Chapel, Henrietta Records

“Going Back Home”, Mac Arnold And Plate Full O’ Blues, Nothin’ To Prove, Plantation Productions

“Goin’ Home”, Son Seals, Bad Axe, Alligator Records

“Jeepers Creepers”, Louis Armstrong, Big Bands Louis Armstrong, Time-Life Music

“Midnight Creeper”, Kevin Selfe, Long Walk Home, Delta Groove Music

“Burn Creepers, Burn”, Noble ‘Thin Man’ Watts, Return Of The Thin Man, Alligator Records

“Dangerous Blues”, Eubie Blake, Memories Of You, Biograph Records

“Danger Man”, David Bromberg, Wanted/ Dead Or Alive, Columbia Records

“Dangerous Man”, Kingsnakes, Snakes Alive!, Blue Wave Records

“Dangerous”, Hard Garden, Blue Yonder, Hard Garden Music

“Bite Me”, Bex Marshall, The House Of Mercy, House Of Mercy Records

“Snake Byte”, Bob Lanza Blues Band, ‘Til The Pain Is Gone, self release

“The Poodle Bites”, Gary Primich, Travelin’ Mood, Flying Fish Records

“The Fat Man”, Fats Domino, The Call Me The Fat Man The Legendary Imperial Recordings, EMI Records

“Fat Man”, Jimmy Vivino And The Black Italians, 13 Live, Blind Pig Records

“Fat Man In The Bathtub”, Little Feat, Live From Neon Park, Zoo Entertainment

“Fat Santa”, Fruteland Jackson, Santa’s Got Mojo vol. 2 (various artists), Electro-Fi Records

Art Hooker was born in Wisconsin and trained on tuba at Hortonville Union High School and Lawrence Conservatory. As a self-taught flutist he traveled throughout the western U.S. as a busker. He studied radio production technology at Mount Hood Community College in Oregon. He also ad libbed flute music beds for a locally produced poetry program on public radio. He currently plays tenor saxophone, flute, rhythm guitar, percussive devices and vocals. He has performed with the Siegal/Schwall Blues Band, Seafood Mama (later known as Quarterflash), Sweet Betty and Nathaniel Mayer, as a solo artist and as a member of the bands King Rat, The Bushwhackers, FM Band, Two Flat Blues Band, Mumblin’ Eddy, Art Hooker, Hot Tomato, and the Big Jones Blues Band. He has opened for John Lee Hooker, James Cotton, Matt ‘Guitar’ Murphy, Ben E. King, Luther ‘Guitar Jr.’ Johnson, Marshall Tucker, The Guess Who and Chris Duarte.