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The Best Of John Lee Hooker: Vol.1

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The King of the Endless Boogie casts his inimitable, one-chord spell.

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    They called him the King of the Endless Boogie, and bluesman John Lee Hooker's hypnotic one-chord vamps could give any computerized sequencer a run for its money. What the rock & roll boogiers who followed in Hooker's footsteps rarely realized is that what gave Hooker's songs their power was their taut, thrumming repetition. The minute the guitar pyrotechnics flared up — the flashy solos, the show-off virtuosity — the spell was broken.

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