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Released: March 13, 2000
Label: Metro Music
Tracks:
1.Trouble Blues
2.Baby Lee
3.Dimples
4.Every Night
5.I Love You Honey
6.I'm in the Mood
7.Little Wheel
8.I See You When You're Weak
9.I'm So Excited
10.Crawlin' King Snake
11.Wheel and Deal
12.I'm Going Upstairs
13.Road Is So Rough
14.Boom Boom
15.I'm Mad Again
16.Boogie Chillen'
17.Don't Look Back
18.Mama, You Got a Daughter
19.Solid Sender
20.Want Ad Blues
21.Hard Headed Woman
22.This Is Hip
23.It Serves Me Right to Suffer
24.She's Long, She's Tall (She Weeps Like a Willow Tree)
Product Description:
John Lee Hooker's sprawling, six-decade-long discography is impossible to boil down to a single-disc best-of, though that hasn't stopped dozens of record companies from trying. Hip-O's 20-track THE DEFINITIVE COLLECTION is as well-selected and comprehensive a set as one is likely to find, however, drawing as it does from Hooker's entire career and choosing the best of his recordings from his endless succession of label associations.
The disc kicks off with one of the Hook's anthems, "Boogie Chillen," a raw, solo electric stomp from his earliest days at Modern Records, and one of the finest blues performances ever put to tape. Hooker went on to adopt powerful electric bands for his tenures with Chess, Impulse, Vee Jay, and other labels, and that sound is well represented here (see the classic "Boom Boom" or "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer"). The artist's late-period collaborations with the likes of Carlos Santana and Bonnie Raitt are also included, rounding out this excellent if cursory overview of the blues icon.
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