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From Grove Press Guide to Blues on CD
Hooker's old Live at Sugar Hill and Boogie Chillun albums, both documents of November 1962 solo performances, are back-to-back with only one track missing (thanks to CD time constraints). His music is defiantly elemental-mood, tempo, chord sequences (almost none), and jagged rhythms vary little. Due to his individual touch and naked feeling, all nineteen selections escape tediousness and preserve the rural blues' aura of foreboding mystery in an amplified setting. -- © Frank John Hadley 1993
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Dirty and beautiful,
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This review is from: Boogie Chillun (Audio CD)
Blues music at its best, when it is raw and simple, sorrowful and mean. Hooker's "inept" or "bad" guitar playing is perfect here. It is ragged and unusual, and his little mistakes add to the broken feeling of the songs. He sounds like a broken-hearted witch doctor. It's amazing. Good grief, how boring and criminal would this album be if it was John Lee singing over somebody playing perfect, totally predictable blues guitar? It makes no sense, and anyone who longs for that doesn't get John Lee Hooker, or the blues for that matter. Why don't you ask Keith Richards? He got a huge amount of his rhythm guitar style from John Lee. Of course if you think John Lee is inept then you probably think Keith Richards is sloppy and that Mick Jagger can't sing, so nevermind. It's people who like clean, overproduced, safe, boring blues music who have nearly killed the blues as an artform, and made it something for middle-aged suburbanites to go see on their Honda Goldwings on Friday nights at some restaurant near a mall. Get this album and turn it up and and experience some real blues, raw and nasty and completely profound.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good old blues, great stuff!!,
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This review is from: Boogie Chillun (Audio CD)
This is a great "mood" blues cd. That guy below talking about how bad the guitar playing is doesn't get it. It's not how hard something is to play, it's what the songs do for you. I can't stand these technical snobs always talking about how hard and fast they can play....they only play with there brains, this comes from the heart.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
This is The Real John Lee Hooker!,
By Rev KM Williams "revkmwilliams" (dallas, tx United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Boogie Chillun (Audio CD)
I don't know what the previous reviewer is talking about!Primitive! You don't understand the true relationship between the African music culture and Delta Blues if you don't get this!Hooker is at HIS BEST WHEN HE'S ALONE! This is the stuff that makes him a legend;not his band CD's. This is one of John Lee Hooker's greatest Cd's,EVER!If you don't feel this, you got a Hole in your Soul!
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