John Lee Hooker Documenting The Sensation Recordings 1948-52 (3-CD)
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John Lee Hooker: Documenting The Sensation Recordings 1948-52 (3-CD)
The blues legend’s recordings for Bernard Besman’s Sensation label released together for the first time, with superior sound and sessionography.
Ace acquired a lot of John Lee Hooker sides when we purchased the Sensation label from Bernard Besman. Bernie had also sold some sides to United Artists and to Greene Bottle before then. However, no-one has carried out a forensic investigation into exactly what we had bought, until now.
These three CDs contain all of the Besman John Lee Hooker sides gathered in one place for the first time. Also included is the Little Eddie Kirkland RPM single with John Lee Hooker on second guitar and vocal. There has been meticulous tape research for best sources, so the mastering far exceeds anything presented before, as anyone who has the ‘Boogie Chillen' ‘Boogie Chillen’ #2’ 10-inch 78 we recently issued can attest. 19 different, previously unreleased versions of songs appeared in the research for the project, including extended takes and alternative versions.
The collection comes as a 3CD digipak box set. The accompanying booklet features an introductory note from Peter Guralnick, a comprehensive overview of the music from Dr Wayne Goins, Director of Jazz Studies at Kansas State University, and a sessionography covering all the tracks on the CDs.
These early Hooker recordings are akin to jazz as much as the blues, with an improvisatory feel, harking back to the pre-war era, but with a very distinct approach and a unique sound presaging the blues that was to come.
Article properties: John Lee Hooker: Documenting The Sensation Recordings 1948-52 (3-CD)
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Interpret: John Lee Hooker
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Album titlle: Documenting The Sensation Recordings 1948-52 (3-CD)
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Label ACE
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Genre Blues
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EAN: 0029667097024
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| Hooker, John Lee - Documenting The Sensation Recordings 1948-52 (3-CD) CD 1 | ||||
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| 01 | Sally mae | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 02 | War is over (goodbye california) (extended version) | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 03 | War is over (goodbye california) (alt take) | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 04 | War is over (goodbye california) (extended version of gb lp | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 05 | Boogie chillen' | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 06 | Henry's swing club | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 07 | Drifting from door to door | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 08 | Hobo blues | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 09 | Numbers blues (aka she ain't good for nothin') | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 10 | Alberta | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 11 | Alberta (alt take) | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 12 | Howlin' wolf | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 13 | Crawlin' king snake | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 14 | Hoogie boogie (instrumental) | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 15 | Hastings street boogie (extended version) | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 16 | Build myself a cave (aka the world is in a tangle) (take #1) | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 17 | Build myself a cave (take #2) | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 18 | Build myself a cave (take #3) | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 19 | Build myself a cave (specialty lp version) | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 20 | Graveyard blues | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 21 | Momma poppa boogie | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 22 | Burnin' hell | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 23 | Sailing blues (aka drifting blues) | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 24 | Black cat blues | John Lee Hooker | ||
| Hooker, John Lee - Documenting The Sensation Recordings 1948-52 (3-CD) CD 2 | ||||
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| 01 | Weeping willow boogie | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 02 | Miss sadie mae | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 03 | Sail on little girl | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 04 | Alberta part 2 | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 05 | Wednesday evening | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 06 | Canal street blues | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 07 | Huckle up baby | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 08 | Let your daddy ride | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 09 | Goin' on highway #51 | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 10 | My baby's got somethin' | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 11 | Boogie chillen' #2 (take 1) | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 12 | Boogie chillen' #2 (take 2) | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 13 | Boogie chillen' #2 (take 4) | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 14 | Boogie chillen' #2 | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 15 | Boogie chillen' #2 (aka 21 boogie) (extended version) | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 16 | Roll 'n' roll (alt take) | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 17 | Rollin' blues | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 18 | Three long years today | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 19 | Strike blues (extended version) | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 20 | Do my baby think of me? | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 21 | Give me your phone number (alt take) | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 22 | The story of a married woman (alt take) | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 23 | Moon is rising (alt take) | John Lee Hooker | ||
| Hooker, John Lee - Documenting The Sensation Recordings 1948-52 (3-CD) CD 3 | ||||
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| 01 | John l's house rent boogie (aka house rent boogie) | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 02 | John l's house rent boogie (fragment) (alt incomplete take) | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 03 | Queen bee | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 04 | Grinder man | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 05 | Walkin' this highway | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 06 | Women in my life (aka goin' away baby) | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 07 | Tease me baby (aka tease me over baby) | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 08 | I need lovin' (aka tease me over baby) | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 09 | How can you do it | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 10 | I'm in the mood (three voice) | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 11 | I'm in the mood (humming version) | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 12 | I'm in the mood (with harmonica overdub) | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 13 | I'm in the mood (alt one voice) | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 14 | Turn over a new leaf | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 15 | It hurts me so | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 16 | It hurts me so (alt take) | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 17 | I got eyes for you | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 18 | I got eyes for you (take 2 or take 5) | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 19 | Key to the highway | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 20 | I got the key (aka key to the highway) | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 21 | Bluebird blues | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 22 | That's all right | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 23 | It's time for lovin' to be done | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 24 | That's all right boogie (under dub) | 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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