John Lee Hooker - Specialty Profiles John Lee Hooker

Tracks:
01. Boogie Chillen #2
02. I'm Mad
03. Everybody's Blues
04. Burnin' Hell
05. Do My Baby Think Of Me
06. Goin' Down Highway 51
07. My Baby's Got Something
08. I Need Lovin'
09. Grinder Man
10. No More Diggin' (aka No More Foolin')
11. I Need Love So Bad
12. Huckle Up Baby
13. Nothin' But Trouble (Don't Take Your Wife's Family In)
14. Odds Against Me (aka Backbiters and Syndicaters)

John Lee Hooker's brief association with the Specialty label doesn't immediately come to mind as do his recordings for, say, Modern, Chess, Vee Jay, or ABC/Bluesway. In 1954 the founder of Los Angeles-based Specialty Records, Art Rupe, bought 35 Hooker tunes, several of which had been cut in Detroit four years earlier. Rupe issued one single to test the market: "I'm Mad" backed with "Everybody's Blues." The record sales were disappointing and the tapes remained in the can until surfacing in 1970. Like so many John Lee Hooker compositions, over the years these songs were re-recorded, sometimes with different titles, and then slapped on one of the many albums released by a mixed bag of labels. However, these 14 tracks represent a composite of those raw early sides, featuring both solo Hooker (with his guitar and stompin' foot) and fronting a raucous juke joint combo

There is also edition with 10 bonus tracks.

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