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
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