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John Lee Hooker - The Legendary Modern Recordings Audio CD

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John Lee Hooker Band: John Lee Hooker
Title: The Legendary Modern Recordings
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Release Date: 1993-04-26
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Boogie Chillen' 2: Sally Mae 3: Hoogie Boogie 4: Hobo Blues 5: Weeping Willow Boogie 6: Drifting from Door to Door 7: Crawlin' King Snake 8: Women in My Life 9: Howlin' Wolf 10: Playing the Races 11: Let Your Daddy Ride 12: Queen Bee 13: Wednesday Evening Blues 14: I'm in the Mood 15: Tease Me Baby 16: Turn over a New Leaf 17: Rock House Boogie 18: Too Much Boogie 19: Need Somebody 20: Gotta Boogie 21: Jump Me One More Time 22: Down Child 23: Bad Boy 24: Please Take Me Back

The Real Deal
It's just Hooker singing, strumming and stomping his foot. This is vintage John Lee Hooker. Although he recorded most of this material again later in his career in stereo and with band support, this is Hooker at his raw best. The sound, while not perfect, is much better than one would expect considering the source material. It's not over filtered, so the guitar comes through clear and natural and you can hear every stomp of his foot with minimal background noise. Essential listening.


Essential John Lee Hooker!!!
Absolutely essential Modern label recordings for John Lee. . also pick up ACE's "Sensation" label recordings and (if you can find) the Charly Blues box set "Complete Vee Jay Recordings". . . all are stunning in their simplicity and emotional directness. . beautiful and savage performances.


Deep blues
These tracks are among the deepest blues ever recorded. Although John Lee Hooker became a star who drank champagne and ride limousines, his first tracks recorded will make you feel with mud up to your neck. This collection is in the same level as Robert Johnson, Muddy's plantation recordings or the Wolf's Sun sides. Until these CD was released in 1993, these sides had never been compiled in one album. The liner notes explain every session and personnel that were involved. For a new blues fan, probably the rhino compilation 'best of' is more digestible, but eventually you'll have to get this one, as any other serious blues fan.


Intense as a slab of ribs cooked by the corner barbecue man
These are not the covers he made later, but are the real thing. These are John Lee Hooker's first recordings. Most early blues recordings are so raw that only dyed-in-the-wool blues fans would like them, but such is not the case here. On these recordings John stomps his foot for percussion, strums and finger-picks his guitar for rhythm and lead, and in the saucy tone he gets from his guitar you can hear the coming roar of Rock and Roll. The songs, in the same order as he historically recorded them, progress from acoustic to electric guitar as a sort of Stairway to Blues Heaven.

If you are a musician, study this album to see how one man stomping his foot can generate enough intensity for an entire band.

If you are a music lover, well, man just groove!.


Simply seminal blues by John Lee Hooker
Here are the recordings from the beginning, mostly John Lee Hooker with a guitar performing some of the songs he would still be remembered for fifty years later. Writing this right after John Lee Hooker's passing, I note that of all of Hooker's recordings, the one's that draw me in deepest are his earliest ones. As another reviewer has stated, the early John Lee Hooker may be a bit too raw for those casually into blues, but if you are a fan of his later recordings, give these sides a chance. Listen to a few tracks at a time. Here is a man pouring out his soul on these trackks, especially on some of the slow numbers. Included in this are his biggest R&B hits and some very personalized renditions of classic blues from other sources. Hooker was an original and greatly influenced numerous performers. There are several other equally excellent albums of Hooker's early recordings available on Specialty, Atlantic; Ace; Krazy Kat; MCA/Chess and Charly. This may be easier to find and it does have the hits, Boogie Chillen, and In the Mood, and for that reason probably edges the others out as an essential disc for any well rounded blues collection.


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