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Hooker (Box Set) (CD)

By: John Lee Hooker (Artist)

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DISC 1 for Hooker (Box Set) (CD) Album By John Lee Hooker (Artist)
1   Boogie Chillen'
2   Sally Mae
3   Black Man Blues - (with Texas Slim)
4   Hobo Blues
5   Hoogie Boogie
6   Weeping Willow Boogie
7   Crawlin King Snake
8   Driftin' From Door To Door
9   Catfish Blues
10   Moses Smote The Water
11   Huckle Up Baby
12   Wanderling Blues - (with Texas Slim)
13   Don't You Remember Me - (with Texas Slim)
14   Notoriety Woman
15   Let Your Daddy Ride
16   John L's House Rent Boogie
17   Bumble Bee Blues - (with Johnny Williams)
18   Leave My Wife Alone
19   Just Me And My Telephone
20   I'm In The Mood
21   Blues For Big Town
22   Stuttering Blues
23   Down Child
24   Boogie Rambler
25   Baby You Ain't No Good
26   I'm Ready
 
DISC 2 for Hooker (Box Set) (CD) Album By John Lee Hooker (Artist)
1   Dimples
2   Every Night
3   I'm So Excited
4   I Love You Honey
5   Tupelo Blues
6   I Need Some Money
7   Democrat Man
8   No More Doggin'
9   Gonna Use My Rod
10   Whiskey And Wimmen
11   No Shoes
12   We're All God's Chillun
13   I'm Goin' Upstairs
14   Teachin' The Blues
15   You Lost A Good Man
16   Don't Turn Me From Your Door
17   When My First Wife Quit Me
18   Boom Boom
19   She's Mine
20   Frisco Blues
21   Birmingham Blues
22   Big Legs Tight Skirt
23   It Serves Me Right To Suffer
24   I'm Losin' You
25   I Cover The Waterfront
 
DISC 3 for Hooker (Box Set) (CD) Album By John Lee Hooker (Artist)
1   One Bourborn, One Scotch, One Beer
2   Let's Go Out Tonight
3   Bottle Up And Go
4   Let's Make It
5   King Of World
6   I'm Bad Like Jesse James
7   Think Twice Before You Go
8   Mean Mean Woman
9   Burning Hell - (with Canned Heat)
10   Peavine - (with Canned Heat)
11   I Got My Eyes On You
12   Doin' The Shout - (with Canned Heat)
13   Bluebird
14   Early One Morning
15   We'll Meet Again
16   Loving People
 
DISC 4 for Hooker (Box Set) (CD) Album By John Lee Hooker (Artist)
1   Baby Lee - (with Robert Cray)
2   I'm In The Mood - (with Bonnie Raitt)
3   Healer, The - (with Carlos Santana)
4   Mr. Lucky - (with Robert Cray)
5   I Cover The Waterfront - (with Van Morrison)
6   This Is Hip - (with Ry Cooder)
7   Bottle Up And Go - (with John Hammond)
8   Same Old Blues Again - (with Robert Cray)
9   Boom Boom - (with Jimmie Vaughan)
10   Chill Out (Things Gonna Change) - (with Carlos Santana)
11   Tupelo
12   Kiddio - (with Charles Brown)
13   Dimples - (with Los Lobos)
14   Don't Look Back - (with Van Morrison)
15   Up And Down
16   Mean Mean World
17   Boogie Chillen' - (with Eric Clapton)
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (p.110) - Ranked #1 in Rolling Stone's "The Top 10 Reissues Of 2006" -- "[A]n aptly locomotive portrait of Hooker's blues, highlighting his primal composing genius..."
Q (p.110) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "This is music reduced to its bare necessities, a victory for the primitive power of one-chord grooves and a baritone boom."
Uncut (p.90) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "Hooker held fast to the visceral mysteries of rural blues, while yoking them to the electric crackle of the industrial north."
Down Beat (p.80) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Hooker blended Delta incantation and rhythm in a singularly primal way that brought out all the sensuality in his songs."
No Depression (p.79) - "[H]is basic sound remained constant: songs built around single-chord drones; unrhymed lyrics that often sounded improvised; propulsive but stripped-down rhythmic patterns usually devoid of standard structure or timing."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.114) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[H]is collaboration-heavy THE HEALER made him a global superstar but his roots remained firmly in the Mississippi Delta."

Title Note

Although blues legend John Lee Hooker has been compiled on more best-of sets than anyone would care to count, it wasn't until 2006's HOOKER that a box set spanning the entirety of his vast, sprawling discography appeared. Arranged chronologically, HOOKER spans four discs and five decades, reaching all the way back to the man's seminal 1948 recording "Boogie Chillen,'" one of the rawest, purest, most groove-intensive blues performances put to wax.

The set rightfully allots a good deal of space to Hooker's '50s and '60s work, emphasizing the spare guitar-and-voice sides he cut for Modern, and the full electric band sides he cut at Chess, Vee-Jay, and a host of smaller labels. It's to Shout Factory's credit that there's little from the '70s or '80s here, with a stress instead placed on Hook's resurgence in the '90s, and his duets with Bonnie Rait, Robert Cray, Carlos Santana, Eric Clapton, and the like. There's barely a skippable cut in the entire box, but it's the early stuff that still slays, with Hooker's drone-centric guitar, unique sense of time, and urgent, earthy vocals slicing through the air like a stiletto. A beautifully assembled set of essential music, HOOKER is a necessity for anyone seeking a comprehensive introduction to the king of endless boogie

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