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John Lee Hooker: Mr. Lucky

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Label: Silvertone Records
Released: 1991
Time:
 46:04
Category: Blues
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Rating: ********.. (8/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.johnleehooker.com
Appears with: Canned Heat
Purchase date: 2001.10.11
Price in €: 10,99



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[1] I Want to Hug You [featuring Johnnie Johnson] (Hooker) - 2:52
[2] Mr. Lucky [featuring Robert Cray] (Hooker/Smith) - 4:38
[3] Back Stabbers [featuring Albert Collins] (Hooker/Smith) - 5:01
[4] This Is Hip [featuring Ry Cooder] (Hooker) - 3:23
[5] I Cover the Waterfront [featuring Van Morrison & Booker T. Jones] (Green/Heyman) - 6:39
[6] Highway 13 [featuring John Hammond] (Hooker) - 6:32
[7] Stripped Me Naked [featuring Carlos Santana] (Hooker/Rietveld/Santana/Thompson) - 4:18
[8] Susie [featuring Johhny Winter] (Hooker) - 4:23
[9] Crawlin' King Snake [featuring Keith Richards] (Hooker) - 3:20
[10] Father Was a Jockey [featuring John Hammond] (Hooker) - 4:58

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JOHN LEE HOOKER - Guitar, Vocals

ROBERT CRAY - Guitar, Vocals
JOHN HAMMOND, Jr. - Harmonica, Slide Guitar
RY COODER - Guitar on [4], Producer
BOBBY KING - Vocals
JOHNNY WINTER - Guitar
ALBERT COLLINS - Guitar
JOHNNIE JOHNSON - Piano
JIM KELTNER - Drums
DEACON JONES - Organ
MICHAEL OSBORN - Guitar
LARRY TAYLOR - Bass
GAYLORD BIRCH - Drums
BOWEN BROWN - Drums
TOM COMPTON - Drums
RICHARD COUSINS - Bass
STEVE EHRMANN - Bass
TERRY EVANS - Vocals
JEFF GANZ - Bass
WILLIAM "Bill" GREENE - Vocals
JIM GUYET - Bass
KEVIN HAYES - Drums
BOOKER T. JONES - Organ
TIM KAIHATSU - Guitar
NICK LOWE - Bass
SCOTT MATHEWS - Drums
VAN MORRISON - Guitar, Vocals
KARL PERAZZO - Timbales
BENNY RIETVELD - Bass
RAUL REKOW - Conga
KEITH RICHARDS - Guitar
CHESTER THOMPSON - Keyboards
MAURICE CRIDLIN - Bass
JIMMY PUGH - Organ
KEN BAKER - Saxophone
CARLOS SANTANA - Guitar, Producer

ROY ROGERS - Producer
ARNE FRAGER - Engineer
SAMUEL LEHMER - Engineer
ALLEN SIDES - Engineer

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1991 CD Pointblank 91724-2
1991 CD Atlantic 91724
1991 CD Charisma 91724-2
1991 CD Charisma 86237
1991 CD Atlantic 91724
1991 CS Point Blank 91724-4
1991 CD Capitol 86237
1992 CD Virgin 86237
1992 CS Virgin 86237
2001 DVA Classic Compact Disc 1007

Mr. Lucky was John Lee’s follow up to THE HEALER and featured guest appearances by Albert Collins, Ry Cooder, Robert Cray, John Hammond, Johnnie Johnson, Van Morrison, Keith Richards, Carlos Santana and Johnny Winter. In 1991, Mr. Lucky debuted at #3 on the UK album chart, the highest ranking ever for a blues album.



His latest for Virgin's blues division, contains some entertaining material. It's not a classic, but it's not half-bad either.

Ron Wynn, All-Music Guide, © 1992 - 2001 AEC One Stop Group, Inc.



For a man who lives the blues, John Lee Hooker couldn't be happier. And while he may think it's a thrill to have some superstars on Mr. Lucky, it was Carlos Santana, Robert Cray, Van Morrison and Keith Richards who were pinching themselves on their way out of the studio. Out of this appreciation and reverence for the man and his blues, this record, like The Healer, stays true to the blues and never falls prey to those nauseating "No John, you're the best" award-show jams. Hooker's band covers the bases from swingers like "I Want To Hug You," featuring Johnnie Johnson's jolly keyboards, to slow and bare, but frighteningly intense, numbers like "Highway 13" and "I Cover The Waterfront," with Van Morrison. Granted, if you want to know John Lee, go back a few decades and work your way up. But even on Mr. Lucky you'll find the source of some of the world's most powerful music from one of its most pained and soulful voices, who's turned on everyone from VU to the Blues Brothers.

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John Lee, he of the mojo hand and wearing voice, says, 'Bad luck can't do me no harm." Certainly not with attendants named Robert Cray, Albert Collins, John Hammond, Van Morrison, Keith Richards, Carlos Santana, Johnny Winter, and Ry Cooder on hand to make him feel better. The highlight is "I Cover the Waterfront," wherein true believers Hooker and Morrison go deep into the mystic. See also Canned Heat and John Lee Hooker

© Frank John Hadley
From Grove Press Guide to Blues on CD



"...a sapphire of an album...as fine and funky as anything he's cut in the last 40-odd years..."
One of Q Magazine's 50 best albums of 1991.

Q Magazine (10/91) - 4 Stars - Excellent



John Lee Hooker and Willie Dixon are the last of a generation of giants that plugged Mississippi's Delta blues into urban America. Dixon went to Chicago and became a mainstay at Chess Records, where he played bass, produced, arranged and wrote songs for electrified Delta wailers such as Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, who, like Hooker, had migrated to the Windy City from rural Mississippi. Hooker, who has just turned seventy-four, left Mississippi and eventually made his way to Detroit nightclubs so noisy that his only recourse was to strum his open tuned guitar with such ferocity as to put an indelible stamp on rock & roll. Blame it on the boogie and you're blaming it on John Lee Hooker.

Mr. Lucky refines the strategy of The Healer, from 1989, which paired Hooker with a variety of rootsy rockers who had been touched by his rhythmic mojo. While there's nothing here quite as stunning as Hooker's saucy, Grammy-winning duet with Bonnie Raitt on "I'm in the Mood," Mr. Lucky is all around a sharper fit. The players on this outing aren't rock stars paying tribute to a legend, but superb sidemen for a great bluesman.

Mr. Lucky offers a well-rounded portrait of the artist, but as Hooker's bullhorn bark has lost a bit of its bite, that means the collection really rips on the ripe, low-key blues, the aspect of Hooker's work that inspired Bruce Springsteen and U2. Van Morrison, himself a central influence on those two rock institutions, pays his own propers to Hooker by joining him for a duet on a masterful "I Cover the Waterfront"; the two men's voices shift like the endless sea that separates Clarksdale, Mississippi, from Belfast, Ireland, and lonely men from the women who matter most.

The best boogie, ironically, features not a guitar but a piano pumped by Chuck Berry's own Johnnie Johnson, whose work on "I Want to Hug You" reflects Hooker's affinity for vintage rhythm & blues. By contrast, Hooker never really gets a handle on the muscular shuffle of the Robert Cray Band's rendering of the title tune or on Carlos Santana's tastefully modern treatment of "Stripped Me Naked." Guitarists Keith Richards and Johnny Winter inspire grittier, and more successful, collaborations on, respectively, "Crawlin' Kingsnake" and "Susie."

In the end, the true peaks on the album bring it all back home. "This Is Hip," with its gospel voices and Ry Cooder's sanctified slide guitar, bears a touch of the church, while "Highway 13" and "Father Was a Jockey" are flat-out Delta blues with splendid accompaniment by guitarist John Hammond. As Hooker moves musically from the city back to the Delta on Mr. Lucky, he travels a circle that in his rare hands remains truly unbroken.

JOHN MILWARD
© Copyright 2001 RollingStone.com (No. 614 10/3/91) - 3.5 Stars - Very Good



Verderben die vielen Köche den Brei? Van Morrison, Keith Richards, Robert Cray und andere Halbgötter des Blues listet das Cover als Gäste, und da beginnt das Leiden: Producer Roy Rogers kriegt seine Promies nicht mehr unter den berühmten Hut. So wirkt das, was gut gemeint war, oft zerfahren und erstaunlich leblos; dabei hätte der 74jährige problemlos die Kraft, den Dampfer auf Kurs zu bringen. Vielleicht hat er während der Aufnahmen den Entschluß gefaßt, beim nächsten Mal alles besser - und allein - zu machen.

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