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John Lee Hooker - Mr. Lucky Audio CD

A fair review of the John Lee Hooker "Mr. Lucky" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all John Lee Hooker reviews here, or go back to the John Lee Hooker tabs.

John Lee Hooker Band: John Lee Hooker
Title: Mr. Lucky
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Release Date: 1992-06-29
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: I Want to Hug You 2: Mr. Lucky 3: Back Stabbers 4: This Is Hip 5: I Cover the Waterfront 6: Highway 13 7: Stripped Me Naked 8: Susie 9: Crawlin' King Snake 10: Father Was a Jockey

Amazon Efficiency
The shipping, price, packing, all that were great. I bought this cd as a present to my son, so we both got to listen.

The album is a tribute to Hooker of sorts, with him playing and singing with other recognized masters. ( I was surprised to see Johnny Winter was still alive. ) In an earlier effort with Canned Heat, Hooker is so obviously beyond Heat, it is almost painful. That doesn't happen here. Everybody is competent, and at it's best it is masters jamming together.


This is hip, pretty baby...messed around and fell in love
I'm not even going to get into an argument about whether this is "pure" JLH in light of the guest musicians. First, I'm grateful that John Lee spent the final years of his life sharing his music with the world. I challenge anyone to listen to "This Is Hip," featuring Ry Cooder, and find fault. The same holds true for "Crawlin' Kingsnake," with Keith Richards and Canned Heat's Larry Taylor. When this album came out in 1991 it was a very welcome blast of John Lee, who STILL didn't care what they allowed. . . he boogied anyhow. He was still full of attitude and rocked harder than most musicians half his age.


John Lee at the top
You might think this would be a recipe for an awful album -you'd be wrong. This great 1991 recording captures JLH with a galaxy stars in the Winter of his career.

From the first notes you know this is going to great. Johnnie Johnson's Piano (Chuck Berry's long time Piano Player) introduces us to "I Want To Hug You" and then that voice comes in. This is no messin' straightahead boogie. The title track follows with the Robery Cray band supporting JLH. This is my favourite track. Great guitar playing from Robert Cray with JLH refusing to be quiet in the background!

There are no duff tracks on this album, and if you like the blues there will be something for you. Oh this bliss. . . . .


Mr. Lucky, my review from Barcelona
Hooker has a very extensive discography. If you are going to give an opinion about a John Lee Hooker's record, you must have present that your talking about one of the most important bluesmen of all times and this is not easy. In my opinion he has records on several levels, but most of them are on a high level. This 'Mr. Lucky' is really good and even more if you take into account the contributions of his companions (Johnnie Johnson, Robert Cray, Albert Collins, Van Morrison, John Hammond, Carlos Santana, Johnny Winter, Keith Richards). All the songs are good, although I am partial to "I want to hug you" with Johnnie Johnson playing piano, "Mr. Lucky", "Backstabbers", "Stripped me naked", with Robert Cray, the impressive Albert Collins and Carlos Santana starting a row with their guitars (and in the case of Cray also with his extraordinary voice), "Susie" with an electrifying Johnny Winter's guitar solo, and closing this good LP "Father was a jockey" with the magnificent Jonh Hammond on guitar and harmonica. As a whole, a great disk. I recommend and I give it 4 stars.
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Disappointing followup to The Healer
The Healer was a landmark album bringing John back to the fore with some good cuts which made up for his musical deficiencies. John Lee Hooker provided some very basic but important music in his time. This album attempts to go down the same road but in general fails to achieve the same heights. The best tracks are 'Stripped me naked' with Carlos Santana and 'This is hip' with Ry Cooder. I prefer the original JLH cuts of the track on the album.


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