John Lee Hooker - The Complete John Lee Hooker Vol. 1 of 6

Size: 173,3+170,4 MB
Time: 73:56+72:40
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2000
Styles: Detroit Blues
Art: Full

CD 1:
01. Rocks (Miss Sassy Mae) (4:02)
02. Leavin' Chicago (3:51)
03. Wednesday Evening Blues (3:53)
04. Shake Your Boogie (3:02)
05. Poor Slim (Take 1) (2:50)
06. Poor Slim (Take 2) (3:26)
07. Down So Long (2:35)
08. Sally Mae (3:07)
09. Sally Mae (Alt. Take) (3:13)
10. War Is Over (2:45)
11. War Is Over (See, See Baby) (Alt. Take) (2:21)
12. She Was In Chicago (She Left Me) (2:58)
13. She Was In Chicago (Crazy 'bout That Woman) (Alt. Take) (3:12)
14. Boogie Chillen (3:09)
15. Boogie Chillen (Henry's Swing Club) (Alt. Take) (3:11)
16. Boogie Chillen (Johnny Lee's Original Boogie) (Alt. Take) (2:53)
17. Good Business (3:33)
18. Mercy Blues (3:17)
19. Boogie Woogie (3:33)
20. Stomp Boogie (3:09)
21. Who's Been Jivin' You (3:10)
22. Black Man Blues (3:36)
23. Poor Joe (2:59)

CD 2:
01. Helpless Blues (3:41)
02. Goin' Mad Blues (3:47)
03. Grievin' Blues (3:31)
04. Low Down-Midnite Boogie (3:36)
05. Landing Blues (3:27)
06. Twister Blues (2:33)
07. Shady Grove Blues (3:22)
08. Goin' Home Blues (3:29)
09. Like A Woman (3:26)
10. Morning Blues (3:04)
11. Boogie Awhile (2:40)
12. Tuesday Evening (Tuesday Evenin' Blues) (3:06)
13. Miss Pearl Boogie (Alt. Take) (3:03)
14. Do The Boogie (3:14)
15. Christmas Time Blues (3:16)
16. Drifting From Door To Door (3:00)
17. Hobo Blues (3:02)
18. Long, Long Way From Home (2:52)
19. Howlin' Wolf (2:39)
20. Crawling King Snake (3:01)
21. Crawling King Snake (I Rule My Den) (Alt. Take) (2:47)
22. Alberta (3:05)
23. She Ain't Good For Nothin' (2:48)

Body & Soul has undertaken the huge task of issuing all of John Lee Hooker's recorded work in chronological order, beginning with this double-disc set, which includes Hooker's earliest Detroit recordings, kicking off with "Rocks," tracked on June 12, 1948, in a little studio behind Elmer Barbee's record shop on Lafayette Street. Most of the sides here were recorded by Bernie Besman at United Sound Studios in Detroit and were leased to Modern Records in Los Angeles, although Besman did release some of them on his own Sensation Records. Hooker's first official single, "Sally Mae" b/w "Boogie Chillen," went to the top spot on the R&B charts in 1948 on the strength of its B-side, which became Hooker's signature tune. Most of the tracks here are archival in interest, drawn from scratchy-sounding 78s, and it is primarily collectors who will be interested in this first installment in Body & Soul's grand undertaking. ~Review by Steve Leggett

Thanks to Marc (fr)
Vol. 1: Detroit 1948-1949 CD 1
Vol. 1: Detroit 1948-1949 CD 2

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