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John Lee Hooker: Burning Hell

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Label: Riverside Records
Released: 1964
Time:
 42:10
Category: Blues
Producer(s): Bill Grauer
Rating: ********.. (8/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.johnleehooker.com
Appears with: Canned Heat
Purchase date: 2001.12.28
Price in €: 12,99



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[1] Burnin' Hell (J.L.Hooker) - 3:16
[2] Graveyard Blues (J.L.Hooker) - 3:39
[3] Baby, Please Don't Go (J.Williams) - 4:49
[4] Jackson, Tennessee (Trad.) - 3:19
[5] You Live Your Life And I'll Live Mine (Trad.) - 3:20
[6] Smokestack Lightnin' (Ch.Burnett) - 3:21
[7] How Can You Do It? (Trad.) - 2:57
[8] I Don't Want No Woman If Her Hair Ain't No Longer Than Mine [Short-Haired Woman] (S.Hopkins) - 3:16
[9] I Rolled And Turned And Cried The Whole Night Long (Trad.) - 3:47
[10] Blues For My Baby (Trad.) - 3:37
[11] Key To The Highway (Bronzy-Segar) - 3:15
[12] Natchez Fire [Burnin'] (Ch.Burnett) - 3:16

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JOHN LEE HOOKER - Guitar, Vocals

PHIL DELANCIE - Remastering, Digital Remastering
ORRIN KEEPNEWS - Compilation, Editing, Compilation Producer
ALAN BATES - Liner Notes

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Recorded at United Recorders, Detroit; April 20, 1959.

When Riverside Records recorded this John Lee Hooker session in 1959, producer Bill Grauer asked the Mississippi moaner to play acoustic guitar, much in the manner he had years earlier, before coming North, plugging in, and creating "Boogie Lightnin'." The result, on which Hooker put his distinct stamp on tunes associated with Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Lightnin' Hopkins, and Big Bill Broonzy, as well as a number of his own highly personal compositions, is a country blues classic. It was not, however, issued until 1964 - in England only.



In April 1959, Hooker recorded a couple of solo acoustic albums for Riverside that were his first efforts geared toward the folk/acoustic blues audience, rather than the commercial R&B one. One of these albums (The Country Blues of John Lee Hooker) was issued at the time; the other, Burning Hell, wasn't issued until 1964, and then only in England (in 1992, it finally came out in the U.S. on CD). This is very similar to Country Blues, mixing originals with covers of tunes by Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Lightnin' Hopkins, and Big Bill Broonzy. To my ears it has a slight edge - the singing and performances sound a little more committed. But anyone who likes one LP will like the other, though neither ranks among the best of Hooker's one-man recordings.

Richie Unterberger, All-Music Guide, © 1992 - 2001 AEC One Stop Group, Inc.
 

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