John Lee Hooker - Blues Biography

Title: Blues Biography Artist: John Lee Hooker Release Date: 2/21/2006 Re-Released On: 9/11/2006 Label: TBB, United Multimedia Album Type(s): Greatest Hits UPCs: 778325250126, 5021364250127 Genre: Blues Styles: Acoustic Blues, Electric Blues, Electric Delta Blues, Country Blues, Delta Blues, Blues Revival, Detroit Blues, Regional Blues Moods: Brooding, Earthy, Gritty, Rousing, Street-Smart, Confident, Greasy, Intimate, Laid-Back/Mellow, Passionate, Reflective, Swaggering, Uncompromising, Bittersweet, Cathartic, Confrontational, Dramatic, Fiery, Organic, Plaintive, Rollicking, Wry, Bleak Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 1 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 1

1. Trouble Blues
2. Everybody's Rockin'
3. Crawlin' Black Spider
4. Mama, You've Got a Daughter
5. I'm Mad Again
6. I Wanna Walk
7. Boom Boom
8. Maudie
9. Dimples
10. I'm So Excited
11. Onions
12. Drugstore Woman
13. War Is Over (Goodbye California)
14. House Rent Boogie
15. Hastings Street Boogie
16. Canal Street Boogie
17. Alberta, Pt. 2
18. Goin' Down Highway 51
19. Crawling King Snake

Year Type Label Catalog # 2006 CD TBB 25012 2006 CD United Multimedia 2501

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This collection centers on the prolific John Lee Hooker's recordings for Vee-Jay Records in the late '50s and early '60s, with a nice dose of sides Hooker recorded for Bernie Besman at United Sound Studios in Detroit between 1948 and 1952 (these were leased to Modern Records in Los Angeles, although Besman did release some of them on his own Sensation Records imprint). You'd have to just know that, though, since the track annotation here, beyond a broad and hardly specific biographical booklet, is nonexistent. However, the music is vintage Hooker, and some of it is as smooth as Hooker ever got (relatively speaking, of course). Check out "Onions" here to get a glimpse of what Hooker might have sounded like in a parallel universe backed up by Booker T. & the MG's and the Memphis Horns. There are countless compilations of Hooker material on the market, issued by a variety of labels under assorted different titles, but you really can't go wrong with this guy -- he always delivered what he was supposed to deliver with no frills and no fuss. ~ Steve Leggett, All Music Guide

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