John Lee Hooker - His Best Chess Sides (1997)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Artwork | 248 mb | MP3 CBR 320kbps | RAR | 129 mb
Blues| Label: Chess - Chess CHD-9383
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) | Artwork | 248 mb | MP3 CBR 320kbps | RAR | 129 mb
Blues| Label: Chess - Chess CHD-9383
John Lee Hooker, as anyone with a decent-sized blues collection knows, recorded for a virtual parade of labels early in his career, including Chess, although his stays with the company were fairly brief. Hooker's best early recordings, most would agree, were issued on Modern and Vee-Jay, not Chess.
Still, if the only Hooker extant consisted of his Chess sides, his greatness would be readily apparent. Approached not as a best-of but simply as one of many Hooker compilations, this 15-song disc is fine, leaning heavily on early-'50s material (the source for 11 of the songs).
This is typical of his early work in its stress on his great guitar work, walking rhythms, and drumless arrangements (most of it is played solo). It's good stuff, even if much of it is derivative of things he recorded elsewhere, and the mike plainly catches him coughing on "Bluebird."
The solo on "Leave My Wife Alone" is almost avant-garde in conception, a series of plucked runs up and down the scale with little relation to convention, even by blues standards. Closing the set are four much more modern-sounding cuts from the mid-'60s, the "I'm in the Mood"/"Let's Go Out Tonight" single and a couple of cuts from the Real Folk Blues LP (including his standard "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer").
Tracklist:
01. Mad Man Blues
02. Louise
03. Ground Hog Blues
04. High Priced Woman
05. Leave My Wife Alone
06. Sugar Mama
07. Walkin' the Boogie (alternate)
08. Bluebird
09. Please Don't Go
10. Blues for Big Town
11. Worried Life Blues
12. I'm in the Mood
13. Let's Go Out Tonight
14. The Waterfront
15. One Bourbon, One Scotch and One Beer
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John Lee Hooker / His Best Chess Sides
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John Lee Hooker / His Best Chess Sides
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