Long John Hunter (born July 13, 1931) is an American Texas blues and electric blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.[2] He has released seven albums in his own name, and in his later years found critical acknowledgement outside of his homeland.[1] Hunters best known tracks are El Paso Rock and Alligators Around My Door, the latter of which Hunter co-wrote with Bruce Iglauer. John Thurman Hunter Jr. was born in Ringgold, Louisiana, United States. He was raised on a farm in Magnolia, Arkansas, but by his early twenties was working in a box factory in Beaumont, Texas. He bought his first guitar after attending a B. B. King concert, and then adopted the stage name of Long John Hunter in 1953.[1] Hunter saw his first single, She Used to Be My Woman b/w Crazy Girl, released by Duke Records in 1953. By 1957 he had relocated to El Paso, Texas, and found employment playing at the Lobby Club in Juárez, Mexico. He remained there for over thirteen years, seeing the release of several singles in the early 1960s on local record labels. These tracks included one of his most notable numbers, El Paso Rock.
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