Track Listings (12) - Disc #1| All Artists: John Lee Hooker Jr Title: Cold As Ice Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: Telarc Original Release Date: 1/1/2006 Re-Release Date: 6/27/2006 Genres: Blues, Pop Styles: Traditional Blues, Regional Blues, Detroit Blues, Jump Blues Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 089408364228 |
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 | John Lee Hooker Jr Cold As Ice Genres: Blues, Pop
This son of the legendary Mississippi blues giant doesn't have his father's aura of brooding mystery, raw baritone voice, or choogling guitar style, yet he is an original nevertheless. On the follow-up to his 2004 Grammy-n... more » |
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Amazon.com This son of the legendary Mississippi blues giant doesn't have his father's aura of brooding mystery, raw baritone voice, or choogling guitar style, yet he is an original nevertheless. On the follow-up to his 2004 Grammy-nominated Blues with a Vengeance, the laconic singer and lyricist mixes straight-up Chicago blues and smooth Southern soul with flourishes of funk and contemporary R&B. He's not an outright modernist; the traditional rhythms and horn charts see to that. Nonetheless, in the medley "Four Hours Straight/Blues Man" and "Got to Be Me," Hooker's nearly rapping. And references to text messaging and the couplet "her sexual modus operandi was that of a freak / it was so addictive it would make you tweak" could work for OutKast. Of course, there are nods to his father, like the touching reminiscence "Do Daddy (Requiem for John Lee Hooker)" and a lackluster reading of his "In the Mood." But the junior Hooker seems determined to make a name for himself, rather than merely capitalize on Dad's. --Ted Drozdowski Similarly Requested CDs
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CD Reviews"Jr." - Maybe, "John Lee Hooker" - NOT! R. Anderson | VA, USA | 06/28/2006 (2 out of 5 stars) "Amazon uses the word "lackluster" to describe one song on this on this CD, but it can be used to describe the entire CD. While Jr can sing, he sounds bored while singing these songs... somewhat like Tone Loc, heavily sedated, doing a bad John Lee Hooker impersonation. To his credit, Jr did try to make the genre his own, and not just be a young version of dad. However please keep in mind that, as a HUGE fan of John Lee Hooker, I may have just been expecting too much out of Jr. " The unique can't be rated after a quick listen St. Pete blues lover | Florida | 09/11/2006 (4 out of 5 stars) "This is the second time a John Lee Hooker Jr. CD has me hooked - but it took a few listens. This ain't his father's blues, and deliberately so. John Lee Jr.'s lyric take, his mix of blues, jazz, Motown and R&B are no less than brilliant to me. It honestly took a dozen listens to grasp it all. That alone is worth the buy. Thinking man's music - for the masses. Yes, brilliant!"
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