John Lee Hooker The Standard School Broadcast Recordings (CD)
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John Lee Hooker: The Standard School Broadcast Recordings (CD)
“The Standard School Broadcast Recordings, once considered a long-lost (and in most cases completely unknown) studio recording by John Lee Hooker, is the first commercial release of a rare all-electric blues band recording from 1973. Recorded direct to tape at Coast Recorders in San Francisco, the session captures Hooker at a turbulent and profoundly transformative time in his career, accompanied by his trusty rhythm section of bassist Gino Skaggs and drummer Ken Swank, as well as Hooker's son Robert, the pianist.
The first edition omitted only a brief interview and song excerpts, but this collection features the entire recording session, including extensive liner notes by preeminent Hooker scholar Charles Shaar Murray. It's a tremendously intimate and incredibly beautiful collection of Hooker in his purest form - the blues as high art.
“The Standard School Broadcast,” launched in 1928, was a multi-award-winning educational radio series sponsored by Standard Oil (also known as Esso, later Exxon). Based in San Francisco, it specialized in music appreciation and American history. Copies of some of their shows were also distributed to schools on vinyl LPs. One such set of ten albums was dedicated to musical instruments, including the guitar. While other legendary guitarists were included: classical virtuoso George Sakellariou, jazz giants Herb Ellis and Joe Pass, and session journeyman Chuck Day, their final selection was the pure embodiment of the heart and soul of blues guitar: John Lee Hooker.
Even 25 years later, it's a vivid portrait of Hooker's vitality at the time and the unwavering respect of the musicians he influenced. The Best Of Friends, released here for the first time on 2LP vinyl and reissued on CD, is the perfect introduction for Hooker fans who want to explore his work in the 1980s and 90s.
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Album titlle: The Standard School Broadcast Recordings (CD)
Genre Blues
Artikelart CD
Label BMG RIGHTS
EAN: 4099964111897
- weight in Kg 0.08
| Hooker, John Lee - The Standard School Broadcast Recordings (CD) CD 1 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Bad Boy | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 02 | Hard Times | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 03 | Rock With Me | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 04 | Should Have Been Gone | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 05 | I Hate The Day I Was Born | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 06 | Hobo Blues | When My First Wife Left Me | ||
| 07 | Sally Mae | John Lee Hooker | ||
| 08 | Coast Recorders Jam | 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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