John Lee Hooker Burning Hell (Bluesville Acoustic Sounds Series) (CD)

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John Lee Hooker: Burning Hell (Bluesville Acoustic Sounds Series) (CD)

(Craft Recording) 12 tracks, digipack

With this record you can experience Hooker pure, under perfect sound conditions. The original tape of the Riverside LP from 1964 has once again been first-class remastered by Acoustic Sounds, giving blues fans around 40 minutes of listening pleasure. Hooker not only interprets his own songs here, but also compositions by Howlin Wolf, Big Bill Broonzy and Lightnin Hopkins, in pure traditional style in the wake of the folk blues that became popular again at the end of the 1950s. Without accompaniment and only on the guitar, just like decades before, around the campfire, as the cover is supposed to tell us?

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Interpret: John Lee Hooker
Album titlle: Burning Hell (Bluesville Acoustic Sounds Series) (CD)
Genre Blues
Artikelart CD
Label Craft Recordings
EAN: 0888072617582
weight in Kg 0.08

Hooker, John Lee - Burning Hell (Bluesville Acoustic Sounds Series) (CD) CD 1
01	Burnin’ Hell	John Lee Hooker
02	Graveyard Blues	John Lee Hooker
03	Baby, Please Don’t Go	John Lee Hooker
04	Jackson, Tennessee	John Lee Hooker
05	You Live Your Life And I’ll Live Mine	John Lee Hooker
06	Smokestack Lightnin’	John Lee Hooker
07	How Can You Do It?	John Lee Hooker
08	I Don’t Want No Woman If Her Hair Ain’t No Longer Than Mine (Short Haired Woman)	John Lee Hooker
09	I Rolled And Turned And Cried The Whole Night Long	John Lee Hooker
10	Blues For My Baby	John Lee Hooker
11	Key To The Highway	John Lee Hooker
12	Natchez Fire (Burnin’)	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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