John Lee Hooker Simply John Lee Hooker (3-CD Metall Box)
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John Lee Hooker: Simply John Lee Hooker (3-CD Metall Box)
Hooker is best known for duetting with a star-studded cast of friends on his comeback albums, "The Healer" and "Mr. Lucky." But on these three CDs - packed with fast-paced boogies and heartbreaking slow numbers from the 1940s through the 1960s - you'll discover why those friends - like Eric Clapton, Bonnie Raitt and Carlos Santana - revered him as one of the greatest bluesmen of all time in the first place. This collection presents classic Hooker recordings from the 1940s through the 1960s.
Article properties: John Lee Hooker: Simply John Lee Hooker (3-CD Metall Box)
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Interpret: John Lee Hooker
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Album titlle: Simply John Lee Hooker (3-CD Metall Box)
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Genre Blues
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Label UNION SQUARE MUSIC
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Artikelart CD
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EAN: 4050538173192
- weight in Kg 0.18
| Hooker, John Lee - Simply John Lee Hooker (3-CD Metall Box) CD 1 | ||||
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| 01 | Boom boom | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 02 | Dimples | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 03 | She's Long, She's Tall (She Weeps Like A Willow Tree) | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 04 | I'm In The Mood | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 05 | Goin' Down Highway 51 | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 06 | Whiskey And Wimmen | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 07 | Boogie Chillen | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 08 | Let your daddy ride | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 09 | Tupelo Blues | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 10 | Crazy 'bout that woman | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 11 | Black Cat Blues | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 12 | Hobo Blues | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 13 | Poor Joe | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 14 | Helpless Blues | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 15 | No Friend Around | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 16 | Goin' Mad Blues | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 17 | Key To The Highway | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 18 | Black Man Blues | John Lee Hooker | ||
| Hooker, John Lee - Simply John Lee Hooker (3-CD Metall Box) CD 2 | ||||
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| 01 | I'm ready | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 02 | Sugar Mama | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 03 | Locked Up In Jail (Prison Blues) | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 04 | Long, Long Way From Home | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 05 | Sally Mae | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 06 | Heart Trouble Blues | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 07 | Johnny Lee's Original Boogie | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 08 | No Mortgage On My Soul | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 09 | Wednesday Evening Blues | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 10 | Mercy Blues | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 11 | Wayne Country Ramblin' Blues | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 12 | Rocks | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 13 | Shake Your Boogie | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 14 | Hastings Street Boogie | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 15 | Down So Long | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 16 | Burnin' Hell | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 17 | Crawling King Snake | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 18 | Playing The Races | John Lee Hooker | ||
| Hooker, John Lee - Simply John Lee Hooker (3-CD Metall Box) CD 3 | ||||
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| 01 | Time Is Marching | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 02 | Mambo Chillun | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 03 | Sail On, Little Girl, Sail On | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 04 | I Got Drunk (Sonny Boy's Cold Chills) | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 05 | We Gonna Make Everything Alright | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 06 | Like A Woman | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 07 | Nightmare Blues | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 08 | I Rule My Den | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 09 | War Is Over | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 10 | Poor Slim | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 11 | Who's Been Jiving You | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 12 | I Love To Boogie | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 13 | Leavin' Chicago | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 14 | Drifting From Door To Door | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 15 | Canal Street Blues | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 16 | Poor Slim 2 | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 17 | Build Myself A Cave | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 18 | Goin' Home Blues | 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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