Saturday, May 18, 2024

John Lee Hooker - Endless Boogie

Album: Endless Boogie
Size: 167,7 MB
Time: 72:41
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 1971/1991
Styles: Blues
Art: Full

1. (I Got) A Good 'Un (5:14)
2. House Rent Boogie (6:23)
3. Kick Hit 4 Hit Kix U (Blues For Jimi And Janis) (6:43)
4. Standin' At The Crossroads (6:07)
5. Pots On, Gas On High (11:24)
6. We Might As Well Call It Through (8:04)
7. Doin' The Shout (3:31)
8. A Sheep Out On The Foam (6:30)
9. I Don't Need No Steam Heat (4:18)
10. Sittin' In My Dark Room (5:38)
11. Endless Boogie, Parts 27 And 28 (8:44)

The black blues legends playing with the white up-and-comers. A dark, slow-moving collection of grooves in Hooker's one-of-a-kind style. The highlight is definitely his anti-drug sermon in the middle of "Kick Hit 4 Hit Kix U (Blues For Jimi & Janis)", but the whole thing slinks around being cool the way any good John Lee Hooker music does. A host of rock musicians make special guest appearances.

This album falls distinctly into the former class John Lee Hooker, a 54-year-old blues legend in his own right, is sympathetically accompanied by the likes of Jesse Davis, Carl Radle, Steve Miller, Gino Scaggs and Mark Naftalin and the end product is a double-album set of unadulterated Hooker portraits in blues.

(For personnel details, see artwork included.)

Endless Boogie mc
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4 comments:

daba said...

Credits:
Acoustic Guitar – John Lee Hooker (tracks: 7), Mel Brown
Electric Piano – Cliff Coulter (tracks: 1, 3, 4 to 6, 8 to 11), John Turk (tracks: 9)
Guitar – Dan Alexander (tracks: 2, 8), Jerry Perez (tracks: 11), Jesse Davis (tracks: 4 to 6), John Lee Hooker (tracks: 1 to 6, 8 to 11), Mel Brown (tracks: 1, 9, 10), Steve Miller (tracks: 1, 2, 4, 7, 9 to 11)
Harmonica – Dave Berger (tracks: 2, 11)
Organ – John Turk (tracks: 11)
Piano – Mark Naftalin (tracks: 2 to 6, 9 to 11)
Tambourine – Ken Swank (tracks: 11)
Vocals, Written-By – John Lee Hooker
Bass [Fender] – Carl Radle (tracks: 5, 6), Gino "Gino" Skaggs (tracks: 1 to 4, 7, 8, 10)
Drums – Billy Ingram (tracks: 1, 10), Jim Gordon (tracks: 5, 6), Ken Swank (tracks: 2 to 4, 7, 8), Reno Lanzara (tracks: 9, 11)

Notes:
Recorded November 10, 11 and 12, 1970 at Wally Heider Recording, San Francisco; mixed at The Record Plant, Los Angeles, December 1970

Red Rooster said...

Thanks for the additional info Daba.

Hygiaphone13 said...

Thank you for the post and for the additional info Data in the comments.

Red Rooster said...

You're most welcome Hygiaphone13, glad you enjoyed the post. Thanks for your comment, it's appreciated.