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John Lee Hooker - It Serve You Right to Suffer
Year: 1965
Label: Impulse
Audio CD: July 27, 1999
Label: Mca Special Products
Format: Original recording remastered
Total time: 33:01
Bitrate: 320 kbps

Given Hooker's unpredictable timing and piss-poor track record recording with bands, this 1965 one-off session for the jazz label Impulse! would be a recipe for disaster. But with Panama Francis on drums, Milt Hinton on bass, and Barry Galbraith on second guitar, the result is some of the best John Lee Hooker material with a band that you're likely to come across. The other musicians stay in the pocket, never overplaying or trying to get Hooker to make chord changes he has no intention of making. This record should be played for every artist who records with Hooker nowadays, as it's a textbook example of how exactly to back the old master. The most surreal moment occurs when William Wells blows some totally cool trombone on Hooker's version of Berry Gordy's "Money." If you run across this one in a pile of 500 other John Lee Hooker CDs, grab it; it's one of the good ones. - AMG

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Originally released on Impulse in 1966, It Serves You Right to Suffer may not contain John Lee Hooker's better-known material, but it does serve up eight tracks of topnotch blues, complete with the boogie groove that Hooker does so well. The digital remastering for this CD is a blessing; the recording sounds almost as clean as one made today. That prevents the listener from being distracted from this album's many delights: the uptempo, low-key "Shake It Baby"; the relaxed but rhythmically tight "Country Boy"; the danceable "Bottle Up & Go"; and the slow, sexy shuffle of "Sugar Mama." Especially worth hearing, however, is the title track, which strikes a perfect tension between musicality and mood. ~ Genevieve Williams

This is a great John Lee Hooker and probably one of the best blues albums period. The sound quality on this album is top notch ( this is not true with all John Lee Hooker material or blues in general ). This also includes some of Hooker's best songs, including "It Serves You Right to Suffer" and "Sugar Mama".

The real deal of this album is that Hooker is trying to mainstream himself here. This is not from the classic Hooker period (but it is a classic album ). This album came out in the 60's after the start of the British Invasion and this is Hooker's attempt to make a mainstream album for those who were into British Invasion groups. This becomes evident during Hooker's version of "Money". Typically the blues artists that tried to make a mainstream/ pop album lost a lot of what makes them great but what is so amazing about this album is that Hooker makes a mainstream album and sounds like Hooker. One of Hooker's top five albums ever. You need to buy this. ~ A. Woodley

Personnel:
John Lee Hooker (Guitar and Vocals)
David "Panama" Francis (Drums)
Joe Galbraith (Guitar)
Milt Hinton (Bass)
William Wells (Trombone) - 7

John Lee Hooker - It Serve You Right to Suffer tracks:
01 Shake It Baby (John Lee Hooker) 4:23
02 Country Boy (John Lee Hooker) 5:43
03 Bottle Up And Go (John Lee Hooker) 2:28
04 You're Wrong (John Lee Hooker) 4:22
05 Sugar Mama (John Lee Hooker/Sonny Boy Williamson) 3:15
06 Decoration Day (Bernard Besman/John Lee Hooker/Sonny Boy Williamson) 5:11
07 Money (Janie Bradford/Berry Gordy, Jr.) 2:26
08 It Serve You Right (John Lee Hooker/Percy Mayfield) 5:11

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