CD Details
- Number of Discs: 3
- Released: October 21, 2008
- Label: Collectables Records
Description by OLDIES.com:
The classic John Lee Hooker albums "The Very Best of John Lee Hooker - I'm The Boogie Man", "Gotham Golden Classics - The Rare Recordings" and "Don't Turn Me From Your Door: John Lee Hooker Sings His Blues" on 3 CDs. Featuring the hits "Stuttering Blues", "Drifting Blues", "I'm The Boogie Man" and 43 other original recordings.
Tracks on Disc 1:
- 1.Stuttering Blues
- 2.Wobbling Baby
- 3.You Lost A Good Man
- 4.Love My Baby
- 5.Misbelieving Baby
- 6.Drifting Blues
- 7.Don't Turn Me From Your Door
- 8.My Baby Don't Love Me
- 9.I Ain't Got Nobody
- 10.Real Real Gone
- 11.Guitar Lovin' Man
- 12.Talk About Your Baby
Tracks on Disc 2:
- 1.House Rent Boogie
- 2.Wandering Blues
- 3.Questionnaire Blues
- 4.Real Gone Gal
- 5.Feed Her All Night
- 6.My Daddy Was A Jockey
- 7.Little Boy Blue
- 8.How Long Must I Be Your Slave
- 9.Ground Hog
- 10.Mean Old Train
- 11.Catfish
Tracks on Disc 3:
- 1. I'm The Boogie Man
- 2. Lovin' Guitar Man
- 3. Real, Real Gone
- 4. Stutterin' Blues
- 5. My Baby Don't Love Me
- 6. Don't You Remember Me
- 7. Slim's Stomp (Aka Stomp Boogie)
- 8.My Baby Left Me (Previously Unissued)
- 9. The Numbers
- 10. Don't Go Baby
- 11. Late Last Night
- 12. I Came To See You Baby
- 13. Who's Been Jivin' You
- 14. Black Man's Blues
- 15. I'm Gonna Kill That Woman
- 16. I Ain't Got Nobody
- 17. Thinking Blues
- 18. Poor Joe
- 19. Nightmare Blues
- 20. Heart Trouble Blues
- 21. Moaning Blues
- 22. Devil's Jump
- 23.Untitled Instrumental (Previously Unissued)
Product Description:
The classic John Lee Hooker albums "The Very Best of John Lee Hooker - I'm The Boogie Man", "Gotham Golden Classics - The Rare Recordings" and "Don't Turn Me From Your Door: John Lee Hooker Sings His Blues" on 3 CDs.
Over the course of three discs, this set reaffirms (not that it could ever be in doubt) John Lee Hooker's status as the Professor Emeritus of the Black Snake Boogie school of blues. Containing material from DON'T TURN ME FROM YOUR DOOR and other albums, including some rarities, ONLY THE BEST is jam-packed with Hooker's stomp-of-doom gems, from more familiar tunes ("House Rent Boogie" and "I'm Gonna Kill That Woman") to tracks that will perk up the interest of even the well-schooled Hooker fan.
