John Lee Hooker Alone Vol.1&2

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(2013/Fat Possum Records) 17 tracks (82:50) 2-CD Recorded live at Hunter College, New York City,... more

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John Lee Hooker: Alone Vol.1&2

(2013/Fat Possum Records) 17 tracks (82:50) 2-CD
Recorded live at Hunter College, New York City, Feb. 06, 1976.
A great sound quality and john lee in top form. A extremely atmospheric concert.
11 page booklet / liner notes by kent cooper. Re-released by Fat Possum Records.
Highly recommended!

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Interpret: John Lee Hooker
Album titlle: Alone Vol.1&2
Label FAT POSSUM
Genre Blues
Artikelart CD
EAN: 0767981114729
weight in Kg 0.12

Hooker, John Lee - Alone Vol.1&2 CD 1
01	I Miss You So	John Lee Hooker
02	I'm Bad Like Jesse James	John Lee Hooker
03	Dark Room	John Lee Hooker
04	I'll Never Get Out Of These Blues Alive	John Lee Hooker
05	Boogie Chillun	John Lee Hooker
06	When My First Wife Left Me	John Lee Hooker
07	Boom! Boom!	John Lee Hooker
08	One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer	John Lee Hooker

Hooker, John Lee - Alone Vol.1&2 CD 2
01	Put Your Hand On Your Hip -	John Lee Hooker
02	Trying To Survive -	John Lee Hooker
03	I Won’t Be Back No More -	John Lee Hooker
04	She Left Me On My Bended Knee -	John Lee Hooker
05	You Ain’t Too Old To Shift Them Gears -	John Lee Hooker
06	Hobo Blues -	John Lee Hooker
07	I Wish You Could Change Your Ways -	John Lee Hooker
08	Boogie Chillen -	John Lee Hooker
09	Crawlin’ King Snake	John Lee Hooker

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"John Lee Hooker"

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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