Early Years

John Lee Hooker | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 6, 1994)
• Original Release Date: September 6, 1994
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Rhino / Wea
• ASIN: B00000339P
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #550,039 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. You Ain't No Big Thing

2. Big Legs, Tight Skirt

3. My Grinding Mill

4. Whiskey and Wimmen'

5. No Shoes

6. I'm So Excited

7. One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer

8. Bottle up and Go

9. One Way Ticket

10. Half a Stranger

See all 16 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Boom Boom

2. Old Time Shimmy

3. I Want to Hug You

4. I'm Leaving

5. Good Rockin' Mama

6. Dusty Road

7. Hard Hearted Woman

8. Thelma

9. Onions

10. Keep Your Hands to Yourself

See all 15 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This and the Rhino box...and you've got it made., May 4, 2001

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Tom (Palatine, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Early Years (Audio CD)

This collection is the perfect companion piece to Rhino's "The Ultimate Collection," which itself is fabulous.

Rhino has a habit of cleaning up recordings, almost to a fault, and removing some of the earthy grit that makes some blues cuts work.

Though there is significant overlap between the two collections, they sound significantly different. The Rhino stuff sounds audiophile perfect, while this Tomato set sounds like you stacked a coupla records on the changer.

Mr Hooker is not about clean studio sound, so both collections work to recreate this legend's best efforts. I wish this set had a version of "Teachin the Blues" on it...but hey...no one has enough different cuts of "Boom Boom."