Blues for Big Town (1995) more music like this

by John Lee Hooker

This John Lee Hooker set is volume 38 in the Charly Blues Masterworks series, which shows no sign of slowing down. There are 16 tracks recorded between the late 1940s and the early '60s; these sides make up some of the less obvious choices in a best-of -- and that's a good thing. How many more comps do we need with the same versions of "Boogie ...

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John Lee Hooker Plays and Sings the Blues (1961) more music like this

by John Lee Hooker

A 1961 Chess album restored to digital print by MCA that's filled with 1951-1952 gems from the Hook's heyday. Chess originally bought "Mad Man Blues" and "Hey Boogie" from the Gone label; the rest first came out on Chess during Hooker's frenzied early days of recording, when his platters turned up on nearly every R&B indie label existant at the ...

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The Complete 50's Chess Recordings (1998) more music like this

by John Lee Hooker

Hooker bounced around between label affiliations like crazy in the 1950s, recording under almost as many fake names as he did labels during that decade. His two lasting record company hookups occurred with Chess in the early 1950s and Vee-Jay later on in the decade. All of Hooker's Chess masters from that decade (he would later record in the '60s ...

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Mad Man Blues (1974) more music like this

by John Lee Hooker

In the 1980s, John Lee Hooker's career revitalized with The Healer, which won a Grammy, and concurrent with this release was a resurgence of interest in Hooker as a recording artist. This interest occasioned the reissue of much of the Chess catalog of his early work. This 1984 double album, whose song lineup is almost identical to a 1982 Chess ...

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The Complete, Vol. 4 - Detroit 1950-1951 (2003) more music like this

by John Lee Hooker

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Plays the Blues (2004) more music like this

by John Lee Hooker

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20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of John Lee Hooker (1999) more music like this

by John Lee Hooker

Like any record company worth their salt, MCA knows a good gimmick when they see it, and when the millennium came around -- well, the 20th Century Masters -- The Millennium Collection wasn't too far behind. Supposedly, the millennium is a momentous occasion, but it's hard to feel that way when it's used as another excuse to turn out a budget-line ...

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