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Originally Released: 1987
Discs: 1
Label: GNP/Crescendo
Item Number: GNP400072
Details
Best of John Lee Hooker
John Lee Hooker
Track Listings
Title
Listen
1.
Talk That Talk (Spoken Intro)
2.
Dimples
3.
Hobo Blues
4.
Boogie Chillun
5.
Little Wheel
6.
Process
7.
Blues Before Sunrise
8.
Let's Make It
9.
No Shoes
10.
Drug Store Woman
11.
Boom Boom
12.
I'm in the Mood
13.
Maudie
14.
Crawlin' Kingsnake
15.
Tupelo
16.
Whiskey and Wimmen
17.
I'm Goin' Upstairs
18.
Want-Ad Blues
19.
Five Long Years
20.
My First Wife Left Me
Includes liner notes by Leonard Feather.
John Lee Hooker was prolific in his output and this BEST OF does a good job of reflecting the different contexts in which Hooker did his earlier recording. As with many compilations, you have to put up with a complete lack of documentation regarding recording dates and band personel. From the deliciously period Leonard Feather liner notes one can approximate that none of these cuts date later than the early-to-mid-'60s. The cover art still boasts "Special Value 2-Record Set." Be that as it may, you can hear Hooker both solo and with various bands.
The solo acoustic "Hobo Blues" harks back to acoustic Lightnin' Hopkins and earlier, while the solo electric "Boogie Chillun" provides a direct antecedent to Magic Sam's showstopper "Feelin' Good." On tunes like "Blues Before Sunrise," someone went so far as to match Hooker up with a low-key horn section and some refined piano work. Elsewhere, the basic ensembles are more directly an amplification of the driving, one-chord boogie Hooker has virtually owned for the last 50 years. Other official Hooker classics here include "Dimples," "Boom Boom," "I'm in the Mood," and "Crawlin' Kingsnake."
Category:
Blues
Release Date:
10/25/90
Originally Released:
1987
Mono / Stereo:
Mixed
Discs:
1
Availability:
Y
Studio / Live:
Studio
Area:
USA
Is Import:
N
Distributor:
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