John Lee Hooker - The Folk Lore Of John Lee Hooker

Artist: John Lee Hooker
Title Of Album: The Folk Lore Of John Lee Hooker
Year Of Release: 1961
Label: Get Back
Genre: Blues

Notes:
Folklore Of John Lee Hooker album by John Lee Hooker was released Mar 18, 2003 on the Get Back label. From the vaults of Vee Jay Records comes an abundance of classic John Lee Hooker reissues, featuring original art work, running orders, and budget prices courtesy of the Collectables label. Folklore Of John Lee Hooker music CDs With the amount of Hooker material available on the market, some of it is of dubious quality, but you can't go wrong with these reissues. Folklore Of John Lee Hooker songs The Folk Lore of John Lee Hooker was released in 1961, combining 12 tracks of both acoustic and electric tunes like "Tupelo" and "The Hobo" (recorded at the Newport Folk Festival in 1960), "I'm Mad Again," "I'm Going Upstairs," and "Hard-Headed Woman." All of the Hooker Vee Jay reissues are recommended. Folklore Of John Lee Hooker album ~ Al Campbell

Tracklist:

1. Tupelo
2. I'm Mad Again 1
3. I'm Goin' Upstairs
4. Want Ad Blues
5. Five Long Years
6. I Like To See You Walk
7. The Hobo
8. Hard Headed Woman
9. Wednesday Evening Blues
10. Take Me As I Am
11. My First Wife Left Me
12. You're Looking Good Tonight
13. Maudie (at Newport)
14. You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone
15. Dirty Ground Hog
16. Moanin' Blues

John Lee Hooker - Half A Stranger (1992)

Artist: John Lee Hooker
Title Of Album: Half A Stranger
Year Of Release: 1992
Label: Mainstream
Genre: Blues

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Tracklist:

1. Bad Boy
2. Rock House Boogie
3. The Syndicator
4. I Love You Baby
5. Baby, I'm Gonna Miss You
6. Half a Stranger
7. Shake, Holler, and Run
8. Down Child
9. Gonna Boogie
10. Baby You Ain't No Good
11. Lookin' for a Woman
12. Hug and Squeeze
13. I'm in the Mood
14. House Rent Boogie
15. Crawlin' King Snake
16. Boogie Chillen'
17. Queen Bee
18. Hobo Blues

John Lee Hooker - Bedroom Boogie (1976)

Artist: John Lee Hooker
Title Of Album: Bedroom Boogie
Year Of Release:
Label:
Genre: Blues

Notes:


Tracklist:

1. Boom Boom
2. Serves Me Right To Suffer
3. You Know It Ain't Right
4. Hobo Blues
5. One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
6. Whiskey And Women
7. Crawlin' King Snake
8. Boogie Chillen
9. You Know I Love You
10. Maudie
11. Crazy 'bout You Baby
Bonus:
12. Boogie Chillen
13. I Need Some Money
14. Bundle Up And Go

John Lee Hooker - The Cream (1989)

Artist: John Lee Hooker
Title Of Album: Jealous
Year Of Release: 1989
Label: Tomato
Genre: Blues

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Tracklist:

1. Hey Hey
2. She's Gone
3. Tupelo
4. You Know It Ain't Right
5. Sugar Mama
6. One Room Country Shack
7. I Want You to Roll Me
8. Bar Room Drinking
9. Little Girl Go Back to School
10. Louise
11. When My First Wife Left Me
12. Boogie On

John Lee Hooker - Jealous (2007)

Artist: John Lee Hooker
Title Of Album: Jealous
Year Of Release: 2007
Label: Shout Factory
Genre: Blues

Notes:
Hooker was already being hailed as a living legend in the '60s, but by the time of this 1986 release he was a larger-than-life figure, his iconic stature unquestioned. Jealous music CDs From his earliest collaborations with Canned Heat and on through the '70s and '80s, the rock world never got tired of trying to endear Hooker to a crossover audience. JEALOUS is an attempt to adapt Hooker's lonesome blues to full-band arrangements.


Tracklist:

1. Jealous
2. Ninety Days
3. Early One Morning
4. When My First Wife Left Me
5. Boogie Woman
6. Well Well
7. I Didn't Know
8. We'll Meet Again
9. Worried Lifes Blues
10. Ninety Days (Reprise)
11. Bonus Track: Lonely Man
12. Bonus Track: Decoration Day

John Lee Hooker - Urban Blues (1994)

Artist: John Lee Hooker
Title Of Album: Urban Blues
Year Of Release: 1994
Label: BGO Records
Genre: Blues

Notes:


Tracklist:

1. Cry Before I Go
2. Boom Boom Boom
3. Backbiters & Syndicaters
4. Mr. Lucky
5. By Own Blues
6. I Can't Stand To Leave You
7. Think Twice Before You Go
8. I'm Standing In Line
9. Hot Spring Water Pt.1
10. Hot Spring Water Pt.2
11. The Motor City Is Burning
12. Want Ad Blues

John Lee Hooker - Plays & Sings The Blues (1989)

Artist: John Lee Hooker
Title Of Album: Plays & Sings The Blues
Year Of Release: 1989
Label: Geffen
Genre: Blues

Notes:
Like other recordings from Hooker's early studio sessions, these tunes bristle with driving energy and ripple with the power of his shouted declarations. This is back porch music from the heart of the Delta, jolted to larger-than-life proportions by the electricity powering Hooker's guitar and by his own strong desire to quit sweeping factories and begin cleaning up on the charts. Although he often reworked themes by earlier bluesmen during this period, it was rare that Hooker outright covered another artist's material. So his riveting interpretations of Muddy Waters's "Please Don't Go" and Big Maceo Merriweather's "Worried Life Blues" peak this collection of solo turns that were recorded for Chess in 1951 and '52. --Ted Drozdowski


Tracklist:

1. The Journey
2. I Don't Want Your Money
3. Hey, Baby
4. Mad Man Blues
5. Bluebird
6. M. Merriweather - Worried Life Blues
7. Apologize
8. Lonely Boy Boogie
9. McKinley Morganfield - Please Don't Go
10. Dreamin' Blues
11. Hey Boogie
12. Just Me And My Telephone

John Lee Hooker — The Big Soul Of John Lee Hooker (2006)

Artist: John Lee Hooker
Title Of Album: The Big Soul Of John Lee Hooker
Year Of Release: 2006
Label: P-Vine Japan
Genre: Blues


Notes:
There may not be much running time to this LP -- not even 30 minutes -- but John Lee Hooker gives us value for every second there is, and in a totally unexpected setting. Jumping into the R&B and soul explosions of the early '60s -- or at least dipping his toe into them -- he's backed here by the Vandellas, no less, on all but one of the 11 songs here. And coupled with an uncredited band that includes organ accompaniment, among other attributes that one doesn't usually associate with Hooker, he pulls it off. Indeed, he manages to straddle blues and soul far better than, say, Muddy Waters did during this same period; he's still a little too intense for the more pop side of the field, but he's also stretching the appeal of the blues with every nuance on this record, and there are a few cuts here, such as "Send Me Your Pillow" that would have fit on any of Hooker's far more traditional-sounding blues releases; and others, such as "She Shot Me Down" (a rewrite of "Boom Boom"), that are so close to his well-known standard repertory that they slip right into his output without explanation. And the whole album is short enough so that even if he would have gone wrong -- which he didn't -- there was only so far he could have gone wrong. As it is, this is near-essential listening as some of Hooker's most interesting work of the '60s.
-Allmusic

Tracklist:

01. San Francisco
02. Take A Look At Yourself
03. Send Me Your Pillow
04. She Shot Me Down
05. I Love Her
06. Old Time Shimmy
07. You Know I Love You
08. Big Soul
09. Good Rocking Mama
10. Onions
11. No One Told Me

John Lee Hooker - Never Get Out Of These Blues Alive (1991)

Artist: John Lee Hooker
Title Of Album: Never Get Out Of These Blues Alive
Year Of Release: 1991
Label: Universal/Mca
Genre: Blues
No.

Notes:
Classic Delta Blues collects 12 cuts Big Joe Williams cut in 1964. For these recordings, he played a standard six-string guitars instead of hauling out his custom nine-string and the effects are pleasant, but not revelatory. ~ Thom Owens


Tracklist:

1. Bumblebee Bumblebee
2. Hit The Road
3. Country Boy
4. Boogie With The Hook
5. T.B. Sheets
6. Letter To My Baby

John Lee Hooker - I Feel Good! (2011)

Artist: John Lee Hooker
Title Of Album: I Feel Good!
Year Of Release: 2011
Label: Jewel Records
Genre: Blues
Quality: flac
Art: scans
No.


Notes:


Tracklist:

1. I Feel Good
2. Baby Baby
3. Dazie Mae
4. Stand By
5. Going Home
6. Looking Back Over My Day
7. Roll And Tumble
8. Baby Don't Do Me Wrong
9. Come On Baby
10. Reconsideration Blues
11. Never Get Out Of These Blues Alive
12. T.B. Sheets

John Lee Hooker - Free Beer and Chicken (2002)

Artist: John Lee Hooker
Title Of Album: Free Beer and Chicken
Year Of Release: 2002
Label: Bgo - Beat Goes on
Genre: Blues
Quality: flac
Art: scans

Notes:

Tracklist:

1. Make It Funky
2. Five Long Years
3. 713 Blues
4. 714 Blues
5. One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
6. Homework
7. Bluebird
8. Sitting on Top of the World
9. (You Never Amount to Anything If You Don't Go To) Collage (A ...)

John Lee Hooker - Concert At Newport (2001)

Artist: John Lee Hooker
Title Of Album: Concert At Newport
Year Of Release: 2001
Label:
Genre: Blues
Quality: flac
Art: scans


Notes:
This 1964 recording taken from the original Vee-Jay tapes includes Bus Station Blues, Let's Make It, and 11 other Hooker originals.


Tracklist:

1. I Can't Quit You Now Blues
2. Stop Baby Don't Hold Me That Way
3. Tupelo
4. Bus Station Blues
5. Freight Train Be My Friend
6. Boom Boom
7. Talk That Talk Baby
8. Sometime Baby You Make Me Feel So Bad
9. You've Got to Walk Yourself
10. Let's Make It
11. The Mighty Fire