You could think of this as John Kirkpatricks English album, but that would simply be doing a disservice to so many that hes released before. But with a song about St. George, who also features on the CD cover, you have to wonder if hes making a bit of a point about Engl&, especially when he

Includes:: " The Farmers & the Cow, " a cautionary tale of agriculture & litigation. This double CD replicates his live set, completely solo, a mix of tunes -- original & traditional -- & songs rangi

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Solo Performer: John Lee Hooker (vocals, guitar). Producer: Bill Grauer. Reissue producer: Orrin Keepnews Recorded at United Recorders, Detroit, Michigan on April 20, 1959.

Includes:: liner notes by Alan Bates. Digitally remastered by Phil De Lancie (Fantasy Studios, Berkely, California). This is part of Riversides Original Blues Classics series.A 1959 recording that was inexplicably not issued in the United States until 1992, BURNING HELL ranks among Hookers most edgy & foc

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Solo performer: John Lee Hooker (vocals, acoustic guitar). Recorded in Detroit, Michigan in April 1959. Originally released on Riverside (838).

Includes:: original release liner notes by Orrin Keepnews. This 1959 recording is just John Lee Hooker, his acoustic guitar & his voice. Whats deceptively complex in his enormous body of work is the way he conjures dark moods & hypnotic rhythms from the simplest of components--sometimes only one or two chords. Hooker has roots in the Mississippi

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The second in our new budget-priced release of John Lee Hookers classic comeback albums from the 80s & 90s. (These remastered editions were first issued here in 2007 through Rajon but have not been available for some time). Dont Look Back, originally released in 1997, was co-produced by Van Morrison, who also duets with Hooker on four tracks. The album contains newly recorded versions of Hooker classics, as well as some new songs & two bonus tracks. Los Lobos appear on a storming versi ...

ENDLESS BOOGIE features a host of session musicians including, interestingly enough, Steve Miller on six cuts. The variety & range these musicians add to Hookers straight-up blues stylings makes for a textured & interesting combination. Hookers tunes touch on the traditional themes: feeling down (" Sitting In My Dark Room"), getting a good woman ("I Got A Good Un"), money troubles (" House Rent Boogie") & standing at the crossroads (" Standing At The Crossroads"). Hookers irresistibly gri ...

Given Hookers unpredictable timing & piss-poor track record recording with bands, this 1965 one-off session for the jazz label Impulse! would be a recipe for disaster. But with Panama Francis on drums, Milt Hinton on bass, & Barry Galbraith on second guitar, the result is some of the best John Lee Hooker material with a band that youre likely to come across. The other musicians stay in the pocket, never overplaying or trying to get Hooker to make chord changes he has no intention of making ...

Theres 18 zillion John Lee Hooker CDs out there in any mall record shop you go into these days, but this is the one you want. The earliest, the crudest, the dirtiest, the best, these are the ones that made Hookers bad gunslinger rep. For solo work, Hookers one of the very baddest there is, & heres a heavy dosage of his best. All cut in Detroit at United Sound & assorted backroom "studios" for Bernie Bessman & Joe Von Battle between 1948-1954, the lineup features Hookers original hits ...