Track Listing

1. One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer - John Lee Hooker, Ralph Bass, Lafayette Leake, Eddie Burns, Fred Below
2. Never Get Out Of These Blues Alive - John Lee Hooker, Van Morrison
3. Mr. Lucky - Al Smith, John Lee Hooker
4. I'm Bad Like Jesse James - Bob Thiele, George Douglas, John Lee Hooker, Rudy Van Gelder
5. Bluebird - John Lee Hooker
6. Shake It Baby - Bob Thiele, John Lee Hooker, Joseph Barry Galbraith, David "Panama" Francis, Milt Hinton
7. It Serve You Right To Suffer - Bob Thiele, John Lee Hooker, Milt Hinton, Barry Galbraith, David "Panama" Francis
8. Bang Bang Bang Bang - Ed Michel, John Lee Hooker
9. Think Twice Before You Go - Al Smith, John Lee Hooker
10. Tantalizing With The Blues - John Lee Hooker
11. Peace Lovin' Man - John Lee Hooker, Ralph Bass
12. Stella Mae - John Lee Hooker, Ralph Bass
13. I Put My Trust In You - John Lee Hooker, Ralph Bass
14. The Waterfront - John Lee Hooker, Ralph Bass
15. I Can't Quit You Baby - John Lee Hooker, Ralph Bass
16. This Land Is Nobody's Land - John Lee Hooker, Ralph Bass
17. Mad Man Blues - John Lee Hooker
18. Apologize - John Lee Hooker
19. I'm In The Mood - John Lee Hooker, Ralph Bass

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5439 in Music
• Released on: 2001-02-01
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds
• Running time: 79 minutes

Customer Reviews

Great Hooker

This was one of my earliest Hooker purchases and remains one of my absolute favourites.

The track selection is very good - given the HUGE number of Hooker recordings, its often hard to find a compilation without 2 or 3 duds, but this CD is an exception (apart from Baby Lee, which I've never rated).

Throughout, you are treated to the great man's totally distinctive sound - his stark, plain but striking voice and guitar, all of it entirely unadorned and unembellished - just a great master growlin' and howlin' and pickin' the blues!

An excellent sample of JLH's work, and one that has remained a favourite despite the passing years and expanding blues collection. You won't be disappointed.

one to play between 2-3am
22 tracks, over an hour of pure boogie stompin' John Lee ... (originals that you'll find electrified and dueted on his latest masterpieces: Healer etc.) ... this collection dates between 1955 & 1964 and it just keeps on chillen, with the re-freshing originals!

Not as gritty and raw as the earlier pure acoustic sets, but one where you can hear the base to what The Stones and Clapton listened to when they were learning to play - the influence just flows through.

This is a well put together collection of JLH classics, buy one for the car, and one for the sofa

BOOM BOOM

Disappointing
I am just getting into Blues music and I had a few John Lee Hooker tracks (boom boom, Crawling king snake blues, When my first wife left me) which I liked a lot so I got this CD to hear more.
It totally failed to grab my attention. It felt like they took everything and sucked all the life out of it. Track two is a actually Van Morrison track with JLH introducing it and I assume playing in the background.This isn't some thing that should be on the very best of CD since its a Van Morrison track.
One for the Blues aficionados perhaps but not for someone with a passing interest.