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Hooker 'N' Heat (CD)

By: Canned Heat (Artist) and John Lee Hooker (Artist)

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Canned Heat Artist Snapshot:

One of the premier blues bands of the 1960s, Canned Heat's boogie-tinged take on the style reached a wide audience following its appearance at Woodstock. The band grew more popular after being prominently featured in the subsequent WOODSTOCK documentary film and on the companion album. Although they never achieved superstar status, Canned Heat's influence can be heard in a wide variety of bands--from ZZ Top to Phish--who place a shuffling, bluesy groove front and center.

John Lee Hooker Artist Snapshot:

John Lee Hooker is the most elemental of the electric blues giants. His spooky musical minimalism--plaintive yet powerful vocals coupled with guitar work alternately haunting and toe-tapping--has inspired countless artists, from contemporaries like Slim Harpo to acolytes the Rolling Stones. Few, however, can summon up the inexplicable erotic charge at the heart of Hooker's best performances. The patented "boogie" rhythm upon which seemingly every blues-rock and hard rock band of the 1970s wrought variations was virtually invented by Hooker. One of the most-recorded post-war bluesmen, Hooker released records on countless labels, working much of the time in Detroit and Chicago. He kept working well into his eighties, his style growing ever more refined and penetrating.

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DISC 1 for Hooker 'N' Heat (CD) Album By Canned Heat (Artist) and John ...
1   Messin' With The Hook
2   Feelin' Is Gone, The
3   Send Me Your Pillow
4   Sittin' Here Thinkin'
5   Meet Me In The Bottom
6   Alimonia Blues
7   Drifter
8   You Talk Too Much
9   Burning Hell
10   Bottle Up And Go
 
DISC 2 for Hooker 'N' Heat (CD) Album By Canned Heat (Artist) and John ...
1   World Today, The
2   I Got My Eyes On You
3   Whiskey And Wimmen'
4   Just You And Me
5   Let's Make It
6   Peavine
7   Boogie Chillen No. 2
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (4/29/71, p.44) - "...despite the cover billing, (Canned Heat) are very much a backup group, for this is really a John Lee Hooker album, and one of his best in a long while..." -Bob Palmer
Mojo (Publisher) (10/01, p.169) - "...As magisterial an album-as-album as Hooker ever cut..."

Title Note

Personnel: John Lee Hooker (vocals, guitar, percussion); Henry Vestine (guitar); Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson (guitar, piano, harmonica); Antonio De La Barreda (bass); Adolfo De La Parra (drums).

Recorded at Liberty Studios, Los Angeles, California in May 1970. Includes liner notes by Pete Welding and "Boogie Chillen".

John Lee Hooker/Canned Heat: John Lee Hooker (vocals, guitar); Alan Wilson (guitar, harmonica, piano); Henry Vestin (guitar); Antonio de la Barreda (bass instrument); Adolfo De La Parra (drums, percussion).

Liner Note Author: Pete Welding.

Recording information: Liberty Studios, Los Angeles, California (05/1970).

By the late '50s, the Delta blues style of John Lee Hooker's modal guitar stomp was profoundly out of favor with urban black audiences, who had begun to prefer more sophisticated rhythm and blues styles. Around the same time, however, Hooker and other traditional blues artists such as Mississippi Fred McDowell were being "rediscovered" by folk audiences eager to hear this rapidly disappearing style of music. Shortly thereafter the British blues boom of the mid-'60s effectively crossbred traditional blues with rock & roll.

Eventually the cycle came back to the United States as the success of The Yardbirds and Cream inspired American blues-rock artists like Canned Heat, and albums like HOOKER 'N' HEAT that were both homage and collaboration. Recorded live in Los Angeles, the session showcases the edgy rock thump of Canned Heat more than it does Hooker (who only sings on the last three tracks). But the band matches the guitarist's idiosyncratic style surprisingly well, and backing vocals by soul legends the Chambers Brothers are more than welcome. This fine outing brings these young blues-rock musicians right back to the source.

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