Details Hooker’s old Live at Sugar Hill and Boogie Chillun albums, both documents of November 1962 solo performances, are back-to-back with only one track missing. His music is defiantly elemental-mood, tempo, chord sequences (almost none), and jagged rhythms vary little. Due to his individual touch and naked feeling, all nineteen selections escape tediousness and preserve the rural blues’ aura of …
Details This stripped-down, solo outing features the legendary bluesman on electric guitar, performing a moody selection of songs, including “Goin’ to Louisiana” and “Feel So Bad.” This reissue marks the first domestic availability of this title on vinyl since 1979. Tracklist Side A 1. Teachin’ The Blues 2. Goin’ To Louisiana 3. I Need You 4. My Love Comes Down For …
Details 2017 marked what would have been John Lee Hooker’s 100th birthday. As part of a larger, year-long centennial celebration for the legendary bluesman, this collection features some of Hooker’s most celebrated recordings, from the prime of his career. Spanning his time on Vee-Jay, Stax, Riverside and Specialty Records, the collection includes such favorites as “Boom Boom,” “Boogie Chillun’” and “Big Legs, Tight Skirt.” New liner notes …
Details Another must have album from the legendary bluesman John Lee Hooker. On this LP, released in 1970 on the Bluesway label, John is joined by his cousin Earl Hooker. A blues icon with a formidable slide technique, Earl died shortly after this session. The other key figure on this date was organ player Big Moose Walker. The album’s highlights consist of “I …
Details [PRE-ORDER] Product expected to ship by February 24th, 2023. Celebrating the 60th anniversary of John Lee Hooker’s electrifying blues classic, Burnin’, this 180-gram reissue offers newly remastered audio from the original analog tapes. Featuring a stereo mix of the album, as it was first released in 1962, the set includes the King of the Boogie’s signature hit, “Boom Boom,” and features members …
Details [PRE-ORDER] Product expected to ship by February 24th, 2023. Limited to 500 copies on “Fuego” red and orange vinyl, exclusive to Craft Recordings and John Lee Hooker’s stores. Celebrating the 60th anniversary of John Lee Hooker’s electrifying blues classic, Burnin’, this 180-gram reissue offers newly remastered audio from the original analog tapes. Featuring a stereo mix of the album, as it was first …
Details The legendary bluesman John Lee Hooker brought his boogie style blend of rhythm & blues to deliver two blistering performances at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1983 and 1990. Joined by The Coast to Coast Blues Band they cover an impressive set of hits from across his career including “Boom Boom,” “Crawlin’ King Snake” and his very first single …
Details The Healer is a critically acclaimed album from “King of the Boogie” John Lee Hooker. First released in 1989, the collection features collaborations with artists including Carlos Santana, Bonnie Raitt, Charlie Musselwhite, Canned Heat, Los Lobos and George Thorogood. Hooker was 73 years of age when The Healer came out and earned his first—of many future—GRAMMY® accolades, winning Best …
Details Although Orrin Keepnews’ Riverside Records was primarily a jazz label, the company dabbled in blues in the 1960s — and one of the bluesmen who recorded for Riverside was John Lee Hooker. Recorded in 1960, this Keepnews-produced session came at a time when Hooker was signed to Vee-Jay. The last thing Keepnews wanted to do was emulate Hooker’s electric-oriented, …
Details John Lee Hooker’s debut on Riverside Records is perhaps the truest to his Mississippi roots. Unaccompanied and playing acoustically instead of his usual amplified guitar, he turned in a wonderfully varied set of deep Delta blues, moans, boogies, one field holler, and even a bit of hokum. Some songs are autobiographical, others reworkings of blues standards–all stamped with the …
