John Lee HOOKER - That's My Story 1960 (Flac)

John Lee Hooker - That's My Story 1960 (Flac)
1991 Issue.OBCCD-538-2

Blues


An acoustic date cut on February 9, 1960, this finds Hooker in top-notch form, running through a dozen performances in his instantly identifiable style. Except for three solo turns, Hooker is ably backed by bassist Sam Jones and drummer Louis Hayes, both wisely following John Lee's idiosyncratic timing and changes. All the tunes are stretched out to comfortable lengths, and his interpretations of then-R&B hits like "Money" and Rosco Gordon's "No More Doggin'" are so vastly reworked that they sound like totally original compositions. A good choice to pick up if you run across a copy.
By Cub Koda. 
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By the time of this 1960 recording, John Lee Hooker's blues had become part of the "folk boom," and Hooker was one of the many blues and folk artists rediscovered by white urban kids caught up in the late-'50s/early-'60s folk revival. Naturally, Hooker was happy to oblige a movement that allowed him access to a wider audience, so he entered a New York studio with famed jazz producer Orrin Keepnews and the rhythm section from Cannonball Adderly's group for a dozen bracing tracks of unadorned blues. Though the most effective cuts are (as usual) solo tunes like the subtly insinuating "Come On and See About Me," bassist Sam Jones and drummer Louis Hayes do an admirable job of keeping it appropriately simple while providing a framework for Hooker's ominous acoustic riffs and warm, craggy voice.
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“Hooker’s earliest Riverside albums presented him playing solo acoustic guitar, in a conscious effort to direct his work to listeners outside the R&B audience. Opinions differ on the matter, but this outing is more interesting than his solo acoustic Riverside records, due to the presence of a supporting rhythm section on most of the tracks. The liner notes (in the fashion of the day) are almost apologetic about this, emphasizing that it’s not to create R&B rhythms, but “to free Hooker from the burden of carrying the full rhythm load.” To make matters more palatable for the purists, maybe that’s why a couple of jazz players were chosen for the job (bassist Sam Jones and drummer Louis Hayes, who formed the rhythm section for Cannonball Adderley at the time). What’s important is not how pure the music is, but that it’s a decent album, striking a good midpoint between his acoustic and electric sound.”
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Louis Hayes- Drums 
John Lee Hooker- Guitar, Vocals 
Sam Jones- Bass 
Tony McPhee- Guitar
and
The Groundhogs 
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01. I Need Some Money   2:25
02. Come On and See About Me   3:06
03. I'm Wanderin'   5:12
04. Democrat Man   3:27
05. I Want to Talk About You   3:02
06. Gonna Use My Rod   4:20
07. Wednesday Evenin' Blues   3:34
08. No More Doggin'   2:42
09. One of These Days   4:05
10. I Believe I'll Go Back Home   3:42
11. You're Leavin' Me, Baby   3:51
12. That's My Story   4:34
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John Lee HOOKER - Whisky And Wimmen 1994

John Lee HOOKER - Whisky And Wimmen 1994
CDRB 10

Blues

Originally released in 1975 and re-released in 1995. It's the blues, man -- actually it's the blues according to John Lee Hooker which is some of my favorite of all music beyond the blues. There's just something about John that makes me believe that this is the blues. That's the Chicago Blues for ya. The kind that's just one man with his guitar on a stool up on a dark smokey stage with a few people listening. Honestly I don't even think John knew how important he was to music. His simplicity in delivery, his minimalism in his guitar, yet his power in all of this is everything that drawls me in. It is all featured here.
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01. Dimples
02. I Love You Honey
03. I'm So Excited
04. Whiskey and WImmen
05. Solid Sender
06. No Shoes.mp3
07. My First Wife Left Me
08. Dirty Ground Hog
09. I'm Going Upstairs
10. I'm Mad Again
11. What Do You Say
12. Boom Boom
13. She's Mine
14. Drug Store Woman
15. Send Me Your Pillow
16. Don't Look Back
17. One Way Ticket
18. Bottle Up And Go
19. This Is Hip.
20. Big Legs, Tight Skirt
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John Lee HOOKER & Carlos SANTANA - Golden Gate Park, S.F. 1985

John Lee HOOKER & Carlos SANTANA - Golden Gate Park, S.F. 1985
JUNE 23,1985
Thx To *dinostunz*

Blues

01.Shake Your Money Maker 4:52
02.I Don't Know (Santana´s) 5:43
03.JLH Intro, One Monday Morning 7:47
04.I Don't Know 3:05
05.Boom Boom 4:29
06.Serves Me Right To Suffer 7:08
07.High Heeled Sneakers 7:34
08.Boogie CHillin' 18:49
09.Jam & Outro 3:18
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John Lee HOOKER - That's My Story 2001 (DVD Rip)

John Lee HOOKER - That's My Story 2001 (DVD Rip)

Blues

"The world's greatest blues singer"? That's arguable, but there's no doubt that the late John Lee Hooker (1917-2001) was in a class by himself, a genuine original whose music--raw, primitively simple, scary even, powered by his deep moan of a voice--was the very embodiment of the Delta blues style. Big names like Bonnie Raitt, Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana, and many more line up to pay tribute to the man in this absorbing 90-minute documentary; there are also plenty of interviews with family, friends, business associates, and the grizzled, laconic bluesman himself, along with some decent performance footage (as is usual in such projects, we get no complete songs). But this 2000 film's best moments come courtesy of writer-director Joerg Bundschuh's beautifully photographed contemporary footage, with no accompaniment except the hypnotic groove and profound soul of John Lee Hooker's music.
By Sam Graham.
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John Lee Hooker tells the tale himself, with help of his family, closest friends, and musical colleagues including Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana, Bonnie Raitt, Robert Cray, and John Mayall. That s My Story takes audiences inside the life and times of this Blues legend. Also known as the Godfather of Blues , John Lee Hooker s music is played in this film, showing rare and captivating live performance footage, archive recordings from the very beginning of his career to video clips from the peak of his success, including the Grammy Award-winning duet with Bonnie Raitt I'm In The Mood.
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If you keep holding your tears,while you watching this movie,means;you ain´t got no fuckin´ clue what "Blues" means.
themonk.
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01. Introduction [4:24]
02. Doc Hook & Archie Lee [5:30]
03. The Empire [6:52]
04. Roots [7:31]
05. Road to Memphis [6:59]
06. Ladies Man [7:27]
07. Discovered [8:20]
08. Exploited [9:41]
09. The Source [10:52]
10. Nobody Knows [10:05]
11. Jammin' With the Boys [8:07]
12. End Credits [2:08]
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John Lee HOOKER and The Coast To Coast Blues Band - The Bellstar Lounge 1979

John Lee HOOKER and The Coast To Coast Blues Band - The Bellstar Lounge 1979
Bellstar Lounge, Colden, NY. 4/4/79
All The Credits Go To *dinostunz*

Blues

01. My Baby Left Me
02. Insturmental
03. Losin' Hand
04. Raining
05. One Burbon One Scotch and One Beer
06. Serve Me Right to Suffer
07. Rock Steady
08. When My First Wife Left Me
09. Boogie Chillun
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John Lee HOOKER - Live at Casino De Montreux Jazz Festival 1983

John Lee HOOKER - Live at Casino De Montreux Jazz Festival 1983
Casino De Montreux - Switzerland - July 15, 1983

Blues

John Lee Hooker- Guitar, Vocals
Wille Dixon- Bass
Melvin Jones- Keyboards
Mike Osborn- Guitar
Steve Ehrman- Guitar, Vocals
Timothy Richard- Drums
Also;
Hohn Hammond,Sugar Blue & Luther Allison
**
01.Serves Me Right To Suffer 4:34
02.I Didn't Know 3:13
03.High Heel Sneakers 4:34
04.I'll Take Care Of You 7:11
05.Boom Boom 4:39
06.How Long: 3:20
07.I'm Jealous 4:09
08.Crawlin' Kingsnake 3:34
09.Little Girl 4:16
10.Boogie Chillen' 15:59
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John Lee HOOKER - I'm John Lee Hooker 1959

John Lee HOOKER - I'm John Lee Hooker 1959
1999 Issue

Blues

Just an outstanding blues LP. I've played this for just about everyone of my friends and family and they all love it. I've got the original pressing and some of these tracks have superb clarity, especially the ones where JLH is without the band:  Hobo Blues, Boogie Chillun, I'm in the Mood, and Crawlin King Snake. Shows how good those old Neumann U47 microphones are. Dimples is a classic, heck, MOST of these are classics. A true blues shaman!
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Born near Clarksdale, Mississippi in 1917 to a sharecropper family, John Lee Hooker was one of the last links to the blues of the deep South. He moved to Detroit in the early 1940's and by 1948 had scored his first number-one jukebox hit and million-seller, "Boogie Chillun." Other hits soon followed, "I'm In The Mood," "Crawling Kingsnake," and "Boom Boom" among the biggest. During the 1950s and '60s, Vee Jay Records released a remarkable string of more than 100 of John Lee's songs.
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A1. Dimples  
A2. Hobo Blues  
A3. I'm So Excited  
A4. I Love You Honey  
A5. Boogie Chillun'  
A6. Little Wheel  
B1. I'm In The Mood  
B2. Maudie  
B3. Crawlin' King Snake  
B4. Every Night  
B5. Time Is Marching  
B6. Baby Lee
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John Lee HOOKER - The Big Soul Of John Lee Hooker 1962

John Lee HOOKER - The Big Soul Of John Lee Hooker 1962
VJLP1058/SR-1058

There may not be much running time to this LP -- not even 30 minutes -- but John Lee Hooker gives us value for every second there is, and in a totally unexpected setting. Jumping into the R&B and soul explosions of the early '60s -- or at least dipping his toe into them -- he's backed here by the Vandellas, no less, on all but one of the 11 songs here. And coupled with an uncredited band that includes organ accompaniment, among other attributes that one doesn't usually associate with Hooker, he pulls it off. Indeed, he manages to straddle lues and soul far better than, say, Muddy Waters did during this same period; he's still a little too intense for the more pop side of the field, but he's also stretching the appeal of the lues with every nuance on this record, and there are a few cuts here, such as "Send Me Your Pillow" that would have fit on any of Hooker's far more traditional-sounding lues releases; and others, such as "She Shot Me Down" (a rewrite of "Boom Boom"), that are so close to his well-known standard repertory that they slip right into his output without explanation. And the whole album is short enough so that even if he would have gone wrong -- which he didn't -- there was only so far he could have gone wrong. As it is, this is near-essential listening as some of Hooker's most interesting work of the '60s.
Bruce Eder. All Music Guide.
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A1. Frisco (San Francisco)
A2. Take a Look at Yourself
A3. Send Me Your Pillow
A4. She Shot Me Down
A5. I Love Her
A6. Old Time Shimmy
B1. You Know I Love You
B2. Big Soul
B3. Good Rockin' Mama
B4. Onions
B5. No One Told Me
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John Lee HOOKER - Travelin' 1960

John Lee HOOKER - Travelin' 1960

Blues

"No food on my table
no shoes on my feet
my children crying for bread
they ain't Got nothing to eat"

"Night life night life,
it ain't No good for me.
If it weren't for whiskey and women and night life,
I'd have a happy life."

When I started to get interested in music in the middle 1960s, this was one of the Albums everyone who was serious was supposed to have. Jazz musicians and Blues lovers alike would take me aside and tell me to listen seriously when they played these sides for me because this was education.

Hooker benefited in these sides from being on Vee Jay records, a fine, sadly defunct, black owned label that provided him quality production and recording and presentation. You have the feeling that compared with a lot of his other recording companies, Vee Jay treated Johnnie Lee as a serious artist, worthy of good sound, enough time in the studio to get the take right, and tasteful accompaniment usually just drums and bass.

Here we have Hooker recorded in a special time in his career right in between the time that RB labels were milking him for a different recording every month, sometimes under different names, and the later period when the folk and the folk blues revivals got him into do one recording it seemed every week.

In 1960 when these sides were cut Hooker still had an audience in the Black base blues community and was also known to a lot of Jazz lovers as well. He's not jiving or being a charicature of himself as on some of his last Albums, sad to say.

Johnnie had "something in him that's got to come out." It's so far inside that it evades even the heart and themind. It's deep down in our bones, fear of loneliness, isolation, poverty, and defeat, love hunger in the brick and concrete squalor of the Black ghettos that were about to explode in revolt.
There is such a feeling of despair here in bluer songs that blend together: "No Shoes," "Whiskey and Women," "Canal Street," "I'm a stranger."
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Lefty Bates- (Guitar),
John Lee Hooker- (Vocals, Guitar),
Sylvester Hickman- (Bass).
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01. No Shoes (2:31)
02. I Wanna Walk (2:13)
03. Canal Street Blues (2:51)
04. Run On (2:14)
05. I'm A Stranger (2:43)
06. Whiskey And Wimmen (2:52)
07. Solid Sender (2:37)
08. Sunny Land (2:34)
09. Goin' To California (2:16)
10. I Can't Believe (2:53)
11. I'll Know Tonight (2:45)
12. Dusty Road (2:18)
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John Lee HOOKER - House of the Blues 1959

John Lee HOOKER - House of the Blues 1959

Blues

In 1951 Delta emigre' John Lee Hooker was a Detroit resident enjoying the raging success of recent singles and gearing up to wax his urgent folk blues for a host of record companies under various noms de blooze. Chess was one of the firms, and twelve sides cut between 1951 and 1954 eventually turned up on this 1959 long-player. Hooker's singing, lubricious and steely, inveighs against annoying women; his rudimental guitar is exciting; and his stamping the plywood floor in ruttish insistence makes for exemplary blues rhythm. Most of the tracks have him solo. Caveat emptor: Two songs have atrocious sound.
By Frank John Hadley.
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I didn't know any other white kids in Lakewood, California who listened to John Lee Hooker back in 1959, but I did. Don't get me wrong, I was a real fan of the new white rock stuff, you know, Ricky Nelson, Dion, Cliff Richard. And I liked country, Johnny Horton, Johnny Cash, others. But the blues, I loved the blues. It spoke to me. Still does. Don't know why. But I know this, this music moves me and John Lee Hooker is one of the best there is at it.

I must've played "Love Blues" a million and a half times. I've worn out several copies of this record. Thank the Lord for CDs. Thank him for iTunes too. Thank him for J.L.H. as well. This man can make you feel. He chills you. Don't believe me, give a listen to "Sugar Mama". If Mr. Hooker's praying for her to come back to him doesn't get to you, you have no emotions.

In "Down at the Landing" J.L.H. is wondering where his baby can be and it just about tears your heart out the way he sings it. "Louise" is the sweetest girl Mr. Hooker knows, the song's sweet too. This record ends with a couple songs about women and money. Got money, you get the women. Ain't that the truth.
By Ken Douglas.
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John Lee Hooker- (Vocals, Guitar)
Eddie Kirkland- (Guitar)
Bob Thurman- (Piano)
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A1. Walkin' the Boogie   2:44
A2. Love Blues   3:01
A3. Union Station Blues   2:58
A4. It's My Own Fault   2:59
A5. Leave My Wife Alone   2:48
A6. Ramblin' by Myself   3:20

B1. Sugar Mama   3:16
B2. Down at the Landing   2:56
B3. Louise   3:06
B4. Ground Hog Blues   2:58
B5. High Priced Woman   2:44
B6. Women and Money   2:52
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John Lee HOOKER with The Groundhogs 1964

John Lee HOOKER with The Groundhogs 1964

Blues

Hooker & the Hogs captures John Lee Hooker with his 1964-65 backing band the Groundhogs — guitarist Tony McPhee, organist Tom Parker, drummer Dave Boorman and bassist Peter Cruikshank. Eleven tracks are compiled featuring the Hogs, with four bonus tracks of Hooker solo performances added on for good measure.
By Steve Huey 
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McPhee and the Groundhogs' most important musical legacy, this 1996 reissue of Hooker & The Hogs has an unusual history. Tony McPhee and the Groundhogs first played with John Lee Hooker in June of 1964, when John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers were unable to fulfill a commitment to back Hooker on the final week of his British tour. The Groundhogs were deputized on the spot and played their first show with him at the Twisted Wheel in Manchester. At the end of the week, Hooker told McPhee how much he liked working with his band and agreed to use the Groundhogs as his backing band on his next visit to England. Hooker was back in May and June of 1965, and not only used them as his band but recorded this album with the Groundhogs. The band was Tony McPhee on guitar, Peter Cruickshank on bass, Dave Boorman on drums, and Tom Parker on keyboards -- some of the stuff here may have surfaced elsewhere, on the Interchord label (as Don't Want Nobody) with brass dubbed on, but this release consists of the undubbed recordings. The sound is raw, tight, and raunchy, some of the best band-backed recordings of Hooker's career. He's notoriously difficult to play support for because of the spontaneity of his work, but these guys keep up and then some, adding engaging flourishes and grace notes. Hooker is in excellent voice, and his material is as strong as any album in his output, rough, dark, and moody. The ominous, surging "Little Dreamer" is worth the price of admission all by itself. The 11 tracks with the Groundhogs are rounded out with four Hooker solo bonus tracks, which are even louder and more savage than the Groundhogs' stuff, though a little noisy (like that ever mattered with The Hook).
By Bruce Eder. AMG.
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01.Mai Lee  (3:28)
02.I'm Losing You  (3:51)
03.Little Girl Go Back to School  (3:50)
04.Little Dreamer  (4:17)
05.Don't Be Messin' With My Bread  (3:19)
06.Bad Luck and Trouble  (4:00)
07.Waterfront  (4:11)
08.No One Pleases Me But You  (2:28)
09.It's Rainin' Here  (3:21)
10.It's a Crazy Mixed Up World  (4:14)
11.Seven Days and Seven Nights  (3:38)
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John Lee HOOKER - Never Get Out Of The Blues Alive 1978

John Lee HOOKER - Never Get Out Of The Blues Alive 1978

Blues

Old-school fans will be pleased to note that, even as the production on Hooker's albums was improving throughout the '70s, there was never any dilution of his hard-core traditional blues aesthetic. NEVER GET OUT OF THESE BLUES ALIVE is no exception, with slow, heavy-lidded blues shuffles like "Country Boy" fitted seamlessly beside such harder-driving jams as "Boogie With The Hook."
A full electric band, fleshed out on a few tracks with piano, violin, organ, and slide guitar, adds textures that are at once swirling and down-home. Hooker is joined by guests as distinguished as Elvin Bishop, mouthharp master Charlie Musselwhite, and--surprise!--Van Morrison, with whom Hooker duets on the title track. Overall, NEVER is a strong addition to the Hooker catalog.
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Following the legendary bluesman's popular collaboration with Canned Heat, this album continues his work with mostly younger musicians and predates similar projects The Healer and Mr. Lucky by about 20 years. Van Morrison spans the gap by appearing on this 1972 release and Mr. Lucky. Elvin Bishop, Charlie Musselwhite, and even Steve Miller contribute here. Jazz violinist Michael White helps Boogie With the Hook take off and adds a mournful touch to the harrowing T.B. Sheets, which is much more restrained here than on the earlier debut release by Morrison.
By Mark Allan. AMG.
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John Lee Hooker, Van Morrison- (Vocals, Guitar);
Luther Tucker, Ray McCarty, Paul Wood- (Guitar);
Benny Rowe, Elvin Bishop- (Slide Guitar);
Michael White- (Violin);
Charlie Musselwhite- (Harmonica);
Mark Naftalin- (Piano);
Robert Hooker- (Electric Piano, Organ, Keyboards);
Steven Miller- (Organ);
Cliff Coultier- (Electric Piano);
Gino Skaggs, John Kahn, Mel Brown- (Bass);
Ron Beck, Chuck Crimelli, Ken Swank- (Drums).
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A1. Bumblebee, Bumblebee 4:11
A2. Hit The Road 2:55
A3. Country Boy 7:00
A4. Boogie With The Hook 6:29

B1. T.B. Sheets 4:57
B2. Letter To My Baby 3:56
B3. Never Get Out Of These Blues Alive 10:18
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John Lee HOOKER - Air Lift Benefit, (Feat. Carlos Santana) 1985

John Lee HOOKER - Air Lift Benefit, (Feat. Carlos Santana) 1985
Bootleg
Air Lift Benefit
The Polo Fields, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California, USA
June 23, 1985
All The Credit Goes To *crazy-tracks*

Blues

01. Shake Your Money Maker
02. I Don't Know
03. Intro - One Monday Morning
04. I Don't Know
05. Boom,boom
06. Serve Me Right To Suffer
07. High Heeled Sneekers
08. Boogie Chillin'
09. Jam
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John Lee HOOKER - Alone, The First and The Second Concerts 1976

John Lee HOOKER - Alone, The First and The Second Concerts 1976

Blues

Hooker first cultivated his solo electric style in Detroit, but this album comes over 30 years later as a nascent superstar Hooker, wary from the creative limitations of playing with the group Canned Heat, is ready to lay down a live, back-to-basics masterpiece with alacrity. Playing in front of a cozy New York crowd after taking a little nip with a backstage friend, Hooker fully reveals his genius and renders a seminal, smoldering 40-minute relic.

Hooker develops his own genteel rapport with the crowd, not unlike that of B.B. King on Live at the Regal, commenting between songs, taking requests, and thanking them for their cheers and applause, for "the sounds of their hands." Before "I'm Bad Like Jesse James," he implores the audience to "dig the lyrics on this and just dig what I'm gonna do to this cat. 'Cause I'm gonna ruin him this mornin'." This loosens up his crowd and creates a relaxed atmosphere, an atmosphere Hooker feeds off of and then soars into with full stride on the third number, "Dark Room."

Asked about is guitar style, Hooker once said he prefers mean, mean licks to fancy playing. There is a banquet of those licks here, beginning with the ear-splitting tension-breaker after the second verse of "I Miss You So." Hooker continues on with a playful version of "I'm Bad Like Jesse James," diverting quite a bit from the lurid version on Live at the Cafe Au-Go Go album seven years earlier. "Dark Room" showcases John Lee's mastery of blending soulful singing with stinging licks... there is a sublime improvisational moment where he abruptly halts a guitar lick and impetuously beckons his guitar, "Hush."

The lyrics on this album are so powerful and flamboyant one can't tell whether they are improvised or have been revised a thousand times over. On "When My First Wife Left Me," he declares, "Ain't but the one thing that worries me so bad, I hope she ain't learned to call no other man Daddy, You know that's what's worrying me." This phrasing, along with the countless other subtleties of his one-of-a-kind style, is a serendipitous bubble-bath for the Hooker fan, as is the entire record itself. It goes without saying Hooker delivered a well-rewarded encore with "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer." This last classic, like some of his more brilliant works, doesn't really start to shine until three full minutes into the song, with him lyrically improvising a hilarious scene at a bar.

Not surprisingly, this is one of a handful of enduring, select recordings re-issued on the Concord Blues Alliance label, which touts it collection of "classic blues recordings at their most raw, powerful and uncompromising." Effortlessly as it seems, Hooker compromises nothing: this is surely one of his most brooding, visceral, and mature sets ever waxed.
By Unknown.
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Cd1
01. I Miss You So 2:49
02. I'm Bad Like Jesse James 4:31
03. Dark Room 4:53
04. I'll Never Get Out of These Blues Alive 7:28
05. Boogie Chillun 4:22
06. When My First Wife Left Me 5:40
07. Boom! Boom! 4:21
08. One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer 5:03

Cd2
01. Put Your Hand on Your Hip 3:32
02. Trying to Survive 6:17
03. I Won't Be Back No More 4:17
04. She Left Me on My Bended Knee 5:47
05. You Ain't to Old to Shift Them Gears 2:47
06. Hobo Blues 3:14
07. I Wish You Could Change Your Ways 7:07
08. Boogie Chillen' 5:03
09. Crawlin' King Snake 5:31
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