Graveyard Blues

John Lee Hooker | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 21, 1992)
• Original Release Date: July 7, 1992
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Specialty
• ASIN: B000000QMR
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #390,436 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best of his kind, October 29, 2004

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C. I. Holloway "CIHolloway" (Great Britain) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Graveyard Blues (Audio CD)

This album is great. The negative reviews are misguided - referring to Wes Montgomery or Charlie Christian is pointless. If you wish to hear technical mastery coupled with great feeling and improvisation - Montgomery and Christian are perfect. If you wish to hear dark intense blues SINGING (NOTE - SINGING), propelled by a primal boogie beat bashed out by old shoes on a wooden board, and with an insistent, hypnotic, fantastically monotonous guitar (which is infinitely inferior in virtuosity to Django or Wes) then buy this CD. If you want to hear something else then buy something else. Simple as.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars the blues haters need to find a Donny and Marie cd to review, April 3, 2004

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Jon Adcock (Citrus Heights, Ca. United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Graveyard Blues (Audio CD)

If you are looking at these reviews in order to decide if this is a cd worth buying, then the answer is a resounding YES. John Lee Hooker wasn't a guitar virtuoso, but he was a virtuoso bluesman and this cd has some of his best work. If you love the blues, then you need to own this cd (and if you don't love the blues, why are you wasting everyone's time reviewing a blues cd)

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Ignore the previous two reviews, January 30, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Graveyard Blues (Audio CD)

I can't understand why someone that professes to despise rock and blues music would even buy this album, much less review it. Hooker is quintessential blues. It is simple and redundant and more about attitude than talent. If you don't understand blues - go buy a Lawrence Welk album. Leave John Lee Hooker to people that have some soul - we'll appreciate him even if you don't.