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John Lee Hooker Mr Boogie Man

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John Lee Hooker, Mr Boogie Man
(CD released March 2004)(Compilation on Newsound)
Format :Flac


John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1917 – June 21, 2001) was a Grammy Award-winning influential African American singer-songwriter and blues guitarist, born in Coahoma County near Clarksdale, Mississippi. Hooker began his life as the son of a sharecropper, and rose to prominence performing his own unique style of what was originally closest to Delta blues. He developed a half-spoken style that was his trademark. Though similar to the early Delta blues, his music was rhythmically free. John Lee Hooker could be said to embody his own unique genre of the blues, often incorporating the boogie-woogie piano style and a driving rhythm into his masterful and idiosyncratic blues guitar and singing. His best known songs include "Boogie Chillen" (1948) and "Boom Boom" (1962).
Hooker's life experiences were chronicled by several scholars and often read like a classic case study in the racism of the music industry, although he eventually rose to prominence with memorable songs and influence on a generation of musicians
Hooker's recording career began in 1948 when his agent placed a demo disc, made by Hooker, with the Bihari brothers, owners of the Modern Records label. The company initially released an up-tempo number, "Boogie Chillen", which became Hooker's first hit single.[2] Though they were not songwriters, the Biharis often purchased or claimed co-authorship of songs that appeared on their labels, thus securing songwriting royalties for themselves, in addition to their streams of income.
Sometimes these songs were older tunes which Hooker renamed as with B. B. King's "Rock Me Baby", anonymous jams "B.B.'s Boogie" or songs by employees (bandleader Vince Weaver). The Biharis used a number of pseudonyms for songwriting credits: Jules was credited as Jules Taub; Joe as Joe Josea; and Sam as Sam Ling. One song by John Lee Hooker, "Down Child" is solely credited to "Taub", with Hooker receiving no credit for the song whatsoever. Another, "Turn Over a New Leaf" is credited to Hooker and "Ling".
Despite being illiterate, Hooker was a prolific lyricist. In addition to adapting the occasionally traditional blues lyric (such as "if I was chief of police, I would run her right out of town"), he freely invented many of his songs from scratch. Recording studios in the 1950s rarely paid black musicians more than a pittance, so Hooker would spend the night wandering from studio to studio, coming up with new songs or variations on his songs for each studio. Because of his recording contract, he would record these songs under obvious pseudonyms such as "John Lee Booker", "Johnny Hooker", or "John Cooker."[6]
His early solo songs were recorded under Bernie Besman. John Lee Hooker rarely played on a standard beat, changing tempo to fit the needs of the song. This often made it difficult to use backing musicians who were not accustomed to Hooker's musical vagaries: As a result, Besman would record Hooker, in addition to playing guitar and singing, stomping along with the music on a wooden pallet.[7] For much of this time period he recorded and toured with Eddie Kirkland, who is still performing as of 2008. Later sessions for the VeeJay label in Chicago used studio musicians on most of his recordings, including Eddie Taylor, who could handle his musical idiosyncrasies very well. His biggest UK hit, "Boom Boom", (originally released on VeeJay) had a horn section to boot.(from Wiki)




Line up/date:-
#1 John Lee Hooker(gtr,vocals)Henry Cosby(sax) & un-credited Motown session musicians (c1961)
#2 John Lee Hooker(gtr,vocals)EddieTaylor(gtr) George Washington(bass) Tom Whitehead(drums) (c1956)
#3 John Lee Hooker(gtr,vocals) Eddie Taylor(gtr)(c 1959)
#4 John Lee Hooker(gtr,vocals) Eddie Taylor(gtr)
Quinn Wilson (bass) (c 1957)
#5 John Lee Hooker(gtr,vocals) Jimmy Reed(harp) Lefty Bates(gtr) Quinn Wilson(bass)Earl Phillips(drums) (c1961)
#6 John Lee Hooker(gtr,vocals) Lefty Bates(gtr) Earl Phillips(drums) (c 1960)
#7 John Lee Hooker(gtr,vocals) Lefty Bates(gtr)
Jimmy Turner(drums) Sylvester Hickman (bass) (c 1966)
Track Listings
1. Boom Boom (#1)
2. Dimples (#2)
3. I'm In The Mood (#3)
4. I'm So Excited (#4)
5. Hard Hearted Woman (#5)
6. Want Ad Blues (#6)
7. I Wanna Walk (#7)
8. Onions (#1)
9. Thelma (#1)
10. Send Me Your Pillow (#1)
11. Lost A Good Girl (#1)
12. House Rent Boogie (#8)
13. What Do You Say (#1)
14. Blues Before Sunrise (#1)
15. Process (#1)
16. Let's Make It (#1)
17. I'm Leaving Baby (#1)
18. Keep Your Hands To Yourself
19. Baby Lee (#2)
20. I'm Goin' Upstairs (#6)

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