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AVID Roots continues with its Four Classic Blues album series with a re-mastered 2CD release by John Lee Hooker complete with original artwork and liner notes. Im John Lee Hooker; Travelin; Plays And Sings The Blues and Burnin The story of John Lee Hooker is another classic blues story but with a twist, this one has a happy ending! Born into a poor sharecropping family with eleven children near Clarkesdale, Mississippi, by 1921 John Lee was saying hello to his new step father, a blues musician called William Moore. John Lee sites Moore as the man who set him on the road of the blues man. By 14 he had run away from home, allegedly never to see his mother or step father again. By the 1940s Hooker had become part of the black migration from the south to the industrial towns of the north. However, whereas the likes of Muddy and Wolf went to Chicago, Hooker landed in Detroit where he found work in the Ford Motor Company all the while checking out and playing in the local clubs around town. It was here that he decided to buy his first electric guitar, in order to be heard, he had discovered, you needed to play LOUD! His recording career began in 1948 when he recorded his first major hit and most famous song Boogie Chillun which trade marked his classic sound, the boogie shuffle. John Lee Hooker falls into that rare category of blues men that includes B.B. King and not many others, who became more popular and successful the older they became. He enjoyed the 1960s blues revival along with many of the early rural blues greats but was able to sustain that success through the following years and indeed enjoyed his greatest success during the 1980s and 90s and was preparing to tour Europe when he died at age 83 in 2001.
CD1 1-12: Im John Lee Hooker 1. Dimples 2. Hobo Blues 3. Im So Excited 4. I Love You Honey 5. Boogie Chillun 6. Little Wheel 7. Im In The Mood 8. Maudie 9. Crawlin King Snake 10. Every Night 11. Time Is Marching 12. Baby Lee 13-24: Travelin 13. No Shoes 14. I Wanna Walk 15. Canal Street Blues 16. Run On 17. Im A Stranger 18. Whiskey And Wimmen 19. Solid Sender 20. Sunny Land 21. Goin To California 22. I Cant Believe 23. Ill Know Tonight 24. Dusty Road
CD2 1-12: Plays And Sings The Blues 1. The Journey 2. I Dont Want Your Money 3. Hey, Baby 4. Mad Man Blues 5. Bluebird 6. Worried Life Blues 7. Apologise 8. Lonely Boy Boogie 9. Please Dont Go 10. Dreamin Blues 11. Hey Boogie 12. Just Me And My Telephone 13-23: Burnin 13. Boom Boom 14. Process 15. Lost A Good Girl 16. A New Leaf 17. Blues Before Sunrise 18. Lets Make It 19. I Got A Letter 20. Thelma 21. Drug Store Woman 22. Keep Your Hands To Yourself 23. What Do You Say
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