John Lee Hooker - Graveyard Blues
Label: Specialty Records
Year: 1992
Size: 87.6 mb
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Cover: Included In Zip file
Tracks
1. War Is Over (Goodbye California)
2. Henry's Swing Club
3. Alberta
4. Hastings Street Boogie
5. Build Myself A Cave
6. Momma Poppa Boogie
7. Graveyard Blues
8. Burnin' Hell
9. Sailing Blues
10. Black Cat Blues
11. Miss Sadie Mae
12. Canal Street Blues
13. Huckle Up Baby
14. Goin' Down Highway 51
15. Sail On, Little Girl, Sail On
16. Alberta (Part 2)
17. My Baby's Got Something
18. Boogie Chillen Number 2
19. 21 Boogie
20. Rollin' Blues
Graveyard Blues Album Notes
Personnel: John Lee Hooker (vocals, guitar), Andrew Dunham (guitar), Eddie Burns (harmonica).
Recorded from 1948-1950 for Sensation Records.
Digitally remastered by Kirk Felton (1992, Fantasy Studios, Berkeley).
Much
of Hooker's best-loved work was recorded for independent Chicago labels
like Vee-Jay in the '50s and '60s, but the bluesman's long, prolific
career began in the late '40s in Detroit. During that time, as
chronicled on GRAVEYARD BLUES, Hooker refined the doomy, foot-stomping
boogie style that would become his trademark. The Hooker of '49-'50
sounds less tormented, lacking the existential edge of his later
recordings. Instead, there's a light-heartedness and almost peppy swing
to these tunes. Hooker's voice is a touch higher and less throaty, but
his guitar is cutting, and he'd already mastered his patented boogie
beat. Hooker achieved no small amount of success with his recordings
from this era, including one of his most famous songs, "Boogie
Chillen," heard here in an alternate version. GRAVEYARD BLUES offers a
glimpse of an important, formative period in Hooker's career.