John Lee Hooker It Serves You Right To Suffer (LP, 180g Vinyl)

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(Impulse Records) 8 tracks, 180g vinyl, gatefold cover A blues album on Impulse! Records? That... more

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John Lee Hooker: It Serves You Right To Suffer (LP, 180g Vinyl)

(Impulse Records) 8 tracks, 180g vinyl, gatefold cover

A blues album on Impulse! Records? That happened under Bob Thiele, too. For “It Serve You Right To Suffer,” producer John Lee Hooker assembled a band of experienced jazz musicians who accompanied the guitarist with his smoky bass voice in a deliberately restrained and unobtrusive manner.

Verve Acoustic Sounds series: Stereo, completely analog, mastered by Ryan K. Smith at Sterling Sound from the original tapes, QPR pressing (180 g), sturdy tip-on gatefold (Stoughton Printing), padded inner sleeve.

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Interpret: John Lee Hooker
Album titlle: It Serves You Right To Suffer (LP, 180g Vinyl)
Genre Blues
Label IMPULSE
Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min
Vinyl record size LP (12 Inch)
Record Grading Mint (M)
Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
Artikelart LP
EAN: 0602475207733
weight in Kg 0.51

Hooker, John Lee - It Serves You Right To Suffer (LP, 180g Vinyl) LP 1
01	Shake It Baby	John Lee Hooker
02	Country Boy	John Lee Hooker
03	Bottle Up And Go	John Lee Hooker
04	You're Wrong	John Lee Hooker
05	Sugar Mama	John Lee Hooker
06	Decoration Day	John Lee Hooker
07	Money	John Lee Hooker
08	It Serve You Right To Suffer	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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