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John Lee Hooker - Live At The Cafe Au Go-Go (And Soledad Prison) Audio CD

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John Lee Hooker Band: John Lee Hooker
Title: Live At The Cafe Au Go-Go (And Soledad Prison)
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Release Date: 1996-11-19
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: I'm Bad Like Jesse James 2: She's Long, She's Tall (She Weeps Like a Willow Tree) 3: When My First Wife Left Me 4: Heartaches and Misery 5: One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer 6: I Don't Want No Trouble 7: I'll Never Get Out of These Blues Alive 8: Seven Days and Seven Nights 9: What's the Matter Baby 10: Lucille 11: Boogie Everywhere I Go 12: It Serves Me Right to Suffer 13: Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang

Down and dirty Live Blues Masterpiece
Doin it up live in a coffee house and then at a prison. This is J L Hooker at his very best. You can tell by the crowds reaction that the performence is striking a nerve with them. If you can't feel were he's coming from on this Cd. You don't know what it is to have the blues. This is great stuff!.


Hard blues True blues Live blues
Maybe he did maybe he didn't. John lee seemed like he had the blues his hole life. He played the hole blues man thing to a T. He seemed like the coolest of all cats when he was up on stage. That's because he was. The people bought it hook line and sinker as they should. I have heard,lived and felt the blues since I was 8 yrs. old. I can totally relate to what he was doing and singing about back then and now. Hookers blues and boogie music is and will always be timeless. That to me is the conection I have with him. Pure blues, no nonsense music that hits you like a ton of bricks. This CD does just that and more.


Best Ever
If I was stranded on a deserted island and I was to have one CD this would be the one , thought that Hooker and Heat was good , this blows it away .


Two Great Live Albums in One CD
Cafe Go-Go finds Johnny earlier in his career and Live at Soledad prison finds Johnny mid-career right in the middle of his endless boogie phase. This is actually two live albums combined.

Live at The Cafe Go-Go is recoreded with Muddy Waters band (Muddy always had the best bands!) including the great Otis Spann on Piano. Muddy even plays guitar on one of the tunes. Sound quality is excellent and John Live is in fine form, but a little restrain. You get the feeling the band had not played that much together. Hearing JLH with Otis Spann in keys is pretty cool however. Bad like Jesse James is one of the creepiest songs made and is made even more haunting by Spann's parse piano.

Live at Soledad prison catch John Lee is his Endless Boogie phase, which for me is where it is at. Sound quality is surprisely very good and his band, including his son John Lee Jr. , are tight. Bang Bang Bang is a great jam all the way from the Motor City. This contains all but two cuts of the original Live at Soledad album. These two tunes were sung by John Lee Jr. I love how at the end of the album the prison plugs the plug on the band and it takes a while for everybody to figure out what happened.

Looking for some more great live John Lee Hooker check the live Album with Albert King (they don'y played together, but share the same CD) 'I Play the Blues for you'. For me this is some of the finest JLH caught live on tape. JLH studio album 'Never get out of these blues alive' is also another great album.

This is a great album for anyone who enjoys the blues, live blues, John Lee, or enjoys Otis Spann. Album should be the staple of any basic bblues collection. I highly recommend this CD. .


Live John Lee...
The version of "I'm Bad Like Jessie James" that opens the CD is one of the most menacing songs I've ever heard; John Lee describes in detail how he will "take care of" a former friend he took in who went around town telling everybody that he slept with John Lee's wife. Hearing John Lee Hooker backed by the Muddy Water's band from the 1960's is a real treat. This song is a perfect example of how John Lee Hooker was the personification of badass. John Lee also runs through some of his classics like "One Bourbon, One Scotch, and One Beer" and "Bang Bang Bang Bang". I prefer the Cafe Au Go Go set to the Soledad Prison set, but both sets are worth hearing and are full of good performances from John Lee and the band. This is definitely worth getting if you are fan of John Lee Hooker or the blues.


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