[1] By the early 1940s he had moved to Leland, Mississippi, and in 1947 he moved to Greenville, Mississippi,[3] where he worked with the pianist Willie Love[1] and also met or worked with Elmore James, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Little Milton, Ike Turner and Houston Boines.
Booker was backed by Houston Boines on harmonica, Turner on piano and Jesse "Cleanhead" Love on drums.
[4] Despite the piano being "horribly out of tune" and problems with local law enforcement,[5] the session resulted in two singles released under Booker's name, one on Modern Records and the other on the associated Blues & Rhythm label,[4] as well as releases by Boines.
[4] Early in 1953 Booker moved to South Bend, Indiana, and ceased playing music as a full-time occupation.
[3] He continued to play locally, but his only further recording was a live appearance with Joe Willie Wilkins at a 1973 blues festival at the University of Notre Dame, in South Bend.