HOOKER, John Lee Don't Look Back

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HOOKER, John Lee: Don't Look Back

(1956-64 'Vee Jay') (58:06/20)

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Interpret: HOOKER, John Lee
Album titlle: Don't Look Back
Label SNAPPER
Genre Blues
Artikelart CD
EAN: 0636551002028
weight in Kg 0.107

Hooker, John Lee - Don't Look Back CD 1
01	Dimples	HOOKER, John Lee
02	Unfriendly Woman	HOOKER, John Lee
03	Everybody Rockin'	HOOKER, John Lee
04	I'm So Excited	HOOKER, John Lee
05	Crawlin' Black Spider	HOOKER, John Lee
06	Little Wheel	HOOKER, John Lee
07	I Love You, Honey	HOOKER, John Lee
08	Boogie Chillun	HOOKER, John Lee
09	Hobo Blues	HOOKER, John Lee
10	Moanin' Blues	HOOKER, John Lee
11	Dirty Ground Dog	HOOKER, John Lee
12	My First Wife Left Me	HOOKER, John Lee
13	Boom Boom	HOOKER, John Lee
14	Whiskey And Wimmen	HOOKER, John Lee
15	Process	HOOKER, John Lee
16	Blues Before Sunrise	HOOKER, John Lee
17	This Is Hip	HOOKER, John Lee
18	Birmingham Blues	HOOKER, John Lee
19	Big Legs, Tight Skirt	HOOKER, John Lee
20	Don't Look Back	HOOKER, John Lee

John Lee Hooker After nomadically label-hopping for the first seven years of his... more

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"HOOKER, John Lee"

John Lee Hooker

After nomadically label-hopping for the first seven years of his astonishingly prolific recording career, Mississippi Delta émigré John Lee Hooker settled into a relatively exclusive relationship with Chicago’s Vee-Jay Records in 1955. Things had changed dramatically on the R&B front since 1949; no longer would a haunting solo blues piece like the Hook’s Boogie Chillen (it’s on BCD 16921, Disc One) find its way to the top of the charts now that rock 'n' roll had captured the teenage demographic.

Still, there remained a solid southern market for blues, and John Lee was happy to help fill it on Vee-Jay through 1964 (granted, there were dalliances with a number of other labels during that span). His first Vee-Jay date, conducted in Chicago in October of ’55, found him in the company of labelmate Jimmy Reed, guitarist Eddie Taylor (a steadying presence for both Reed and Hooker whenever they entered the studio), bassist George Washington, and drummer Tom Whitehead, who had been playing sessions with the Boogie Man since 1953 and clearly knew the territory.

Reed was absent for Hooker’s Vee-Jay encore session, held March 27, 1956, but the rhythm section remained constant. Among the enduring gems laid down that day was the rollicking Dimples, a standard in John Lee’s repertoire from then on. He’s listed as writing it with Jimmy Bracken, the co-owner of Vee-Jay. Hooker was fretting an electric guitar instead of the acoustic he used on his first Detroit sessions (ironically, he’d have to retrieve it when the folk-blues trend hit).

Hooker’s Vee-Jay stint produced some of the most polished recordings he ever made, thanks to stellar musicianship by Taylor and his comrades, who seemed to cope with Hooker’s erratic timing better than just about anyone else he’d recorded with. At the end of 1958, John Lee would find his way back onto the R&B charts for the first time in more than seven years with I Love You Honey. He scored nationally again in 1960 with No Shoes. But as it turned out, the John Lee Hooker story was just getting underway.

Bill Dahl
Chicago, Illinois

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