Burnin' [Import]

John Lee Hooker | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• ASIN: B0000564CY
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,544,717 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

The late Mississippi-born John Lee Hooker was one of the great Blues singers and guitar innovators - he began his career in the '40s and is still going strong today. Originally released on Vee-Jay Records and digitally remastered, this album includes Lost A Good Girl, Drugstore Woman, as well as one of Hooker's best known and most-covered songs, Boom, Boom. 11 tracks. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice, band-backed Hook, March 27, 2006

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Docendo Discimus (Vita scholae) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Burnin (Audio CD)

It's sort of weird that Amazon doesn't stock the newest Vee-Jay re-release of this classic John Lee Hooker-LP. It features the best sound yet, and five bonus tracks. Too bad...

Anyway, "Burnin'" is still one of the Hook's better albums. Recorded with a full band (drums, bass, seconds guitar, piano and even a tenor sax), it marked a departure from the sparse backing on previous John Lee Hooker sides. Some may prefer him alone, just a guitar and a piece of plywood to stomp on, but if you like band-backed Hook this is a very good place to get some (as are "I'm John Lee Hooker" and "It Serves Me Right To Suffer").

The Hook lays down a rollicking "Let's Make It", a piano-enhanced "Boom Boom", and covers Leroy Carr's mournful "Blues Before Sunrise". And "Thelma" rides along on a funky horn riff and some more fine piano playing by Motown's leading piano player Joe Hunter (not to be confused with "Ivory" Joe Hunter from Kirbyville, Texas).
There is a lot of rather dubious Hooker reissues out there, but you can't go wrong with the Vee-Jay stuff. And if you should get your hands on a copy of the 2000 issue with bonus tracks, savour that slippin', slidin' swing of "Old Timmy Shimmy" and the funky, Booker T-inspired groove of "Onions".

4.0 out of 5 stars Burnin' down into the Blues, November 17, 2011

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J. Bynum (the southwest) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Burnin (Audio CD)

Burnin' (Collectables): First off, this is a different album than his "Burning Hell" album. Both deserve a place in your collection, but they are not the same. "Burnin'" has a jumping band (but still a Blues band) behind John Lee and it starts off with a killer version of "Boom Boom". The rest of the CD moves along well but they don't lift the album up to Classic status. Well worth having nonetheless.