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- Date Released: January 1, 1971
- Genre: Blues
- Style: Delta Blues, Jazz/Blues, Chicago Blues, Traditional Blues
- Label: Jewel-Paula Records
The beauty of repetition
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We Say...
John Lee Hooker freed me up so much. If he could write a song... they didn't rhyme, nothing — they boogied along and they got a feel and they said what he wanted. He's a great inspiration for songwriters. He taps into my philosophy that the beauty of rock & roll is repetition. He cops a chant and he goes, and he could go for hours. I really grabbed onto that — when I was a kid I used to invent these riffs that we could do in the clubhouse and bang on boxes and tables and get these grooves going and you could sing on them for hours. Most of the records I recorded, when I brought them back to the neighborhood, my friends would all say, "It was better when we did it at Joey's party!"
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They Say...
Nine songs recorded double-quick in one session, with Lowell Fulson on lead guitar on most of it -- the rare embellishment on a Hooker release makes for unusually complex and rewarding listening, instrumentally speaking, beneath Hooker's ominous vocals. The textures on this reissue are very crisp and vivid, with a crunchiness that should make this a CD of choice for Hooker's rock fans, much more so than, say, the Canned Heat collaborations -- Hooker and Fulson make a mean team on "Dazie Mae." Among the other highlights is Hooker's own take on the blues standard "Rollin' and Tumblin'," done here as "Roll and Tumble." The uncredited band that shows up on some of these cuts (which, in some instances, may have originated in Paris) is loose enough to follow Hooker, and he and Fulson play like one person together.
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| 01. |  |
I Feel Good |
4:12 |
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| 02. | |
Baby Baby |
4:36 |
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| 03. | |
Dazie Mae |
4:30 |
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| 04. | |
Stand By |
6:29 |
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| 05. | |
Going Home |
3:13 |
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| 06. | |
Looking Back Over My Day |
4:38 |
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| 07. | |
Roll & Tumble |
5:06 |
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| 08. | |
Baby Don't Do Me Wrong |
5:05 |
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| 09. | |
Come On Baby |
5:13 |
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09 Total Tracks, 43:02 Total Length
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Credits
- Lowell Fulson - Guitar // Lowell Fulson - Guitar // Lowell Fulson - ? // Lowell Fulson - ? // John Lee Hooker - Guitar // John Lee Hooker - Guitar // John Lee Hooker - Composer // John Lee Hooker - Composer // John Lee Hooker - Vocals // John Lee Hooker - Vocals // John Lee Hooker - Main Performer // John Lee Hooker - Main Performer // S.P. Leary - ?
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