The Best Of John Lee Hooker: Vol.1

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Total Tracks: 10   Total Length: 26:28

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Jess Harvell

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11.23.05
The King of the Endless Boogie casts his inimitable, one-chord spell.
2004 | Label: Tribute Sounds / Entertainment One Distribution

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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Chills.....

seccole

John Lee Hooker is the best...his music makes chills run down my spine. All tracks are classics and still very important in the blues music of today...this music is more than just music, it reflects the life of rural southern black americans from the middle 20th century...simply wonderful!

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