From Clarksdale To Heaven...John Lee Hooker (CD)

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• Release Date: September 24, 2002
• Label: Blue Storm Music
• UPC: 766922362922
• WAPI (Tower ID): 105863120
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Personnel: John Lee Hooker, Mick Taylor , Tony McPhee, Vince Converse (vocals, guitar); Gary Brooker (vocals, piano); Earl Green, Jack Bruce (vocals); Peter Green (guitar, harmonica); Dave "Clem" Clempson, Jeff Beck, Nigel Watson, Andy Fairweather Low, Bobby Murray (guitar); Dick Heckstall-Smith (soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone); Dave Moore , Johnnie Johnson, Max Middleton (piano); Booker T. Jones (organ); Tony Cook (guitar synthesizer); Peter Stroud (upright bass); Godfrey McLean, Gary Husband, Jeff Allen , Kenny Greene, Ric Lee, Richard Bailey, Henry Spinetti, Bruce Gary (drums); Michael Bailey (background vocals).

Audio Mixers: Kirk Yano; Tom Carr; Billy Oskay.

Liner Note Author: Arnie Goodman.

Recording information: Annex Digital, Menlo Park, CA (03/20/1989-06/??/2002); Big Red Studio, Corbett, OR (03/20/1989-06/??/2002); Mark Angelo Studios, London, England (03/20/1989-06/??/2002); Quad Studios, Nashville, TN (03/20/1989-06/??/2002); Roundel Studios, Kent, England (03/20/1989-06/??/2002); Sunset Sound Recorders, Hollywood, CA (03/20/1989-06/??/2002).

Author: Tony McPhee.

Arranger: John Lee Hooker.

For the first of two tribute albums to John Lee Hooker, executive producer Arnie Goodman of Blue Storm Music has assembled an impressive list of British musicians from the 1960s who helped spark the '60s blues revival that was responsible for the ascension of Hooker (among others) into legendary status. The biggest name on his own is Jeff Beck, who plays guitar on "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" and "Hobo Blues," but other notable figures include Cream's Jack Bruce, Leo Lyons and Ric Lee from Ten Years After, Procol Harum's Gary Brooker, ex-Rolling Stone Mick Taylor, former Fleetwood Mac leader Peter Green, and Gary Moore. The performers are reverent toward Hooker's music, maintaining its relentless rhythmic power and even at times re-creating the master's haunting mumble of a voice. The set is not entirely given over to the Brits, however, as it opens with "I Want to Hug You," sung by Hooker's daughter, Zakiya, and ends with Hooker himself, accompanied by Booker T. Jones and Randy California, among others, performing a previously unreleased "Red House" that was cut for a Jimi Hendrix tribute album. There is also a newly written song ("The Business") penned by Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter and Bay Area musician Greg Anton that was earmarked for a Hooker project never recorded due to his death. Such tracks provide some variety, but the strength of the album is still in the devoted performances of people like Beck and Green. ~ William Ruhlmann

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