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John Lee Hooker
Definitive Collection
Genres: Country, Blues, Pop

Track Listings (24) - Disc #1
1. Trouble Blues - John Lee Hooker, Brown, Charles [1]
2. Baby Lee - John Lee Hooker, Bracken, James
3. Dimples - John Lee Hooker, Bracken, James
4. Every Night
5. I Love You Honey
6. I'm in the Mood - John Lee Hooker, Besman, Bernard
7. Little Wheel - John Lee Hooker, Bracken, James
8. I See You When You're Weak - John Lee Hooker, Bracken, James
9. I'm So Excited
10. Crawlin' King Snake - John Lee Hooker, Besman, Bernard
11. Wheel and Deal
12. I'm Going Upstairs - John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf
13. The Road Is So Rough
14. Boom Boom
15. I'm Mad Again
16. Boogie Chillen'
17. Don't Look Back
18. Mama, You Got a Daughter - John Lee Hooker, Lenoir, J.B.
19. Solid Sender
20. Want Ad Blues
21. Hard Headed Woman
22. This Is Hip
23. It Serves Me Right to Suffer - John Lee Hooker, Mayfield, Percy
24. She's Long, She's Tall (She Weeps Like a Willow Tree) - John Lee Hooker, Besman, Bernard

Fitting tribute to one of the greatest blues musicians the world has ever seen. Features a hand-picked selection of his legendary Vee Jay recordings including such timeless classics as 'Boom Boom', 'Boogie Chillun', 'This ... more »

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All Artists: John Lee Hooker
Title: Definitive Collection
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Metro Music
Original Release Date: 5/12/2000
Re-Release Date: 5/23/2000
Album Type: Import
Genres: Country, Blues, Pop
Styles: Classic Country, Contemporary Blues, Delta Blues, Traditional Blues, Regional Blues, Detroit Blues, Electric Blues, Acoustic Blues, Singer-Songwriters
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 698458100528

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CD Reviews

Some of the best band-backed Hooker

Docendo Discimus | Vita scholae | 12/24/2004

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Yet another "Definitive" compilation which isn't, "The Definitive Collection" only covers John Lee Hooker's time with Vee-Jay Records from the mid-'50s to the mid-'60s.

But it must be said that Hooker made some of his best and most approachable music at Vee-Jay, and almost all of it is here, including "This Is Hip", "It Serves Me Right To Suffer", "Time Is Marching", "I Love You Honey", and Vee-Jay versions of "Dimples", "Boom Boom" and "Crawling King Snake".

A few good Vee-Jay waxings are still missing, however, "Onions", "Old Time Shimmy" and "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" among them, and even though this is a good Vee-Jay overview, Tomato's "The Early Years" is better. The double-disc version is no longer available, but the same 31 songs have been reissued, with similar cover art, as "The Early Years vol. I" and "The Early Years vol. II".

(If you're a collector you should get all three CDs, actually, since there are also several songs on this album which isn't on the Tomato compilations. Yeah, it's tough!)"