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John Lee Hooker: Boogie Chillen - The Essential Recordings Of

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Interpret: John Lee Hooker
Album titlle: Boogie Chillen - The Essential Recordings Of
Label INDIGO
Genre Blues
Artikelart CD
EAN: 0766126412225
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Hooker, John Lee - Boogie Chillen - The Essential Recordings Of CD 1
01	Boogie Chillen	John Lee Hooker
02	Sally Mae	John Lee Hooker
03	Drifting From Door To Door	John Lee Hooker
04	Crawlin' King Snake	John Lee Hooker
05	Hobo Blues	John Lee Hooker
06	Whistlin' And Moanin' Blues	John Lee Hooker
07	Hoogie Boogie	John Lee Hooker
08	Burnin' Hell	John Lee Hooker
09	Miss Sadie Mae	John Lee Hooker
10	Weeping Willow	John Lee Hooker
11	Low Down Midnite Boogie	John Lee Hooker
12	Goin' Mad Blues	John Lee Hooker
13	Helpless Blues	John Lee Hooker
14	Landing Blues	John Lee Hooker
15	Stomp Boogie	John Lee Hooker
16	Black Man Blues	John Lee Hooker
17	Nightmare Blues	John Lee Hooker
18	Devil's Jump	John Lee Hooker
19	I'm Gonna Kill That Woman	John Lee Hooker
20	The Numbers	John Lee Hooker

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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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