Best of [Original recording reissued]

John Lee Hooker | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Label: Gnp Crescendo
• ASIN: B000001P2O
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #352,371 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #98 in Music > Blues > Regional Blues > Detroit Blues

Track Listings

1. Talk That Talk Baby (Spoken Intro)

2. Dimples

3. Hobo Blues

4. Boogie Chillen'

5. Little Wheel

6. Process

7. Blues Before Sunrise

8. Let's Make It

9. No Shoes

10. Drug Store Woman

11. Boom Boom

12. I'm in the Mood

13. Maudie

14. Crawlin' King Snake

15. Tupelo

16. Whiskey and Wimmen'

17. I'm Going Upstairs

18. Want Ad Blues

19. Five Long Years

20. My First Wife Left Me

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The original John Lee Hooker, September 20, 2001

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nadav haber (jerusalem Israel) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best of (Audio CD)

This great CD contains the best songs from Hooker's best period. The best versions of Boogie Chillun, Little wheel, Hobo Blues, Dimples and other great numbers are all here.
It takes an emotionally flat and musically ignorant person to ignore Hookers's magnificent power and emotion, and to look for Jazz influence in his style. Hookers played African music in its Blues medium, in unparalelled beauty. I am sorry for those who do not have ability to enjow raw blues. For the many that do, I recommend this CD.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is the good stuff, June 1, 2009

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Silenus (South Louisiana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best of (Audio CD)

I first got this album on cassette tape back in the '80s after seeing Hooker's cameo appearance in The Blues Brothers. I must have been maybe 12. I was a little too young to understand everything I heard. As the years passed I listened to it more often and started to learn the blues roots of the rock music I became a fan of. I was soon mesmerized whenever playing that tape. I remember listening to Blues Before Sunrise after breaking up with a girlfriend in high school. Finding this on CD is a treasure. Now I listen everything from Led Zeppelin to Tool, from Eric Clapton to Disturbed. However I decide to binge on rock and metal, I always purge with blues - Muddy Waters, BB King, Elmore James, Albert King, etc. But this is the one album that started it all for me.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Some of the best blues around, August 14, 2008

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R. Kyle (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best of (Audio CD)

I'm new to John Lee Hooker. My favorite veterinarian introduced me to him and suggested this particular CD as the epitome of Hooker's work. Note: I have not heard the rest of his work, so this is not my personal assessment.

What I will personally say is this CD is good stuff. The sound quality is excellent and the music is impressive.

Of course, we have the expected "Boom Boom." But, every one of the 20 songs on this CD is a good listen. My favorites:

"Boom Boom"
"Boogie Chillun"
"Talk that Talk"

Rebecca Kyle, August 2008