Customer Reviews
Great Hooker - By: Wilf, 22 Apr 2007 
This was one of my earliest Hooker purchases & remains one of my absolute favourites.
The track selection is very good - given the HUGE number of Hooker recordings, its often hard to find a compilation without 2 or 3 duds, but this CD is an exception (apart from Baby Lee, which I've never rated).
Throughout, you are treated to the great man's totally distinctive sound - his stark, plain but striking voice & guitar, all of it entirely unadorned & unembellished - just a great master growlin' & howlin' & pickin' the blues!
An excellent sample of JLH's work, & one that has remained a favourite despite the passing years & expanding blues collection. You won't be disappointed.
one to play between 2-3am - By: music@laker-media.co.uk, 17 Mar 2001 22 tracks, over an hour of pure boogie stompin' John Lee ... (originals that you'll find electrified & dueted on his latest masterpieces: Healer etc.) ... this collection dates between 1955 & 1964 & it just keeps on chillen, with the re-freshing originals!
Not as gritty & raw as the earlier pure acoustic sets, but one where you can hear the base to what The Stones & Clapton listened to when they were learning to play - the influence just flows through.
This is a well put together collection of JLH classics, buy one for the car, & one for the sofa
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