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Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Guitar Blues Instrumental

2. Two White Horses

3. Trouble in Mind

4. Catfish Blues

5. John Henry

6. How Long Blues

7. Ezekial Saw the Wheel

8. Jack O'Diamonds

9. Water Boy

10. Six Little Puppies and Twelve Shaggy Hounds

11. In the Evening When the Sun Goes Down

12. Old Blind Barnabus

13. Moses Smote the Water

14. Spoken Interlude

15. Rabbit on the Log

16. Come and See About Me

17. 33 Blues

18. She's Real Gone

19. I Wonder

20. Untitled Slow Blues

Product Details

Audio CD (May 18, 2004)
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Eagle Records
ASIN: B0001Z36EG
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #50,962 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
- #9 in Music > Blues > Regional Blues > Detroit Blues
- #129 in Music > Blues > Acoustic Blues
- #247 in Music > Blues > Traditional Blues

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I am that man!

By Gene Deitch on December 2, 2004

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As I, Gene Deitch, am the man that recorded John Lee Hooker at my Detroit home in 1949 - the very tapes that over 50 years later have been issued on the Eagle Records CD, entitled "Jack O'Diamonds: 1949 Recordings," I am extremely gratified by the warm and loving reviews appearing here. Thank you. Gene Deitch

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Unique, the Young Hooker, sings blues & traditional songs

By Tony Thomas on November 8, 2004

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I got this recording home Friday Afternoon, it is Monday Afternoon now, and I haven't been able to get it out of the CD player.

This is 1949. Johhnie Lee is young. It is the moment just before big initial hits "Boogie Chillen" and "Boom Boom Boom" hit the market.

We're not in a recording studio. We're in the living room of a Detroit blues lover who had him over for dinner and a party. Instead of the repertoire record sellers demand so they could claim each tune for their thieving selves, we have Hooker, free, requested not to play that music. He's playing in the African American tradition not competing for bucks with other R & B stars.

Instead, Hooker sings hymns, folk songs, blues that radiated out from recording of the great 1920s bluesmasters like Leroy Carr to become effectively traditional, tunes Hooker brought up to Detroit from Clarksdale, Mississippi. This recording shows us that while the greed and stereotyping of the record industry restricted Black guitarists like Hooker to blues, Hooker at least retained a very good selection of traditional dance tunes, hymns,and other African American folk songs.

I love "How Long Blues" and "In the Evening when the Sun Go Down." If you don't know Robert Johnson's "Love in Vain," is simply a remake of Leroy Carr's "In the Evening," you will know that after they hear Hooker's powerful rendition on this CD. There is more pain and more poetry in Hooker's "Catfish Blues," than in the sexier version Muddy Waters put out about the same time. Johnnie Lee isn't singing about hunger for sex, but hunger for love, deep heart hunger that he will sing about for the rest of his life.

Hooker's rhythmic power rocks the Hymn "Ezekiel Saw the Wheel.Read more ›

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Frighteningly talented.

By Kavity Killer on February 9, 2005

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The word "amazing" is thrown around alot these days. "My boyfriend is so amazing!" "That sandwich was amazing!" "That dust mote is amazing!" Its too bad because it robs the word of its original power, a power which would have perfectly described what John Lee puts down on this recording. His style is so hypnotically primal, his lines so futuristic and clean, that he is amazing in a way that your boyfriend will never be. This is the work of a singular blues visionary. It can be acurately said that there are two eras of blues, Pre-John Lee and Post-John Lee. If his influence isn't greater, its only because he's incredibly hard to imitate or steal riffs from.

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Unbelievable! Jack O' Diamonds!

By Abbott on November 21, 2012

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Diamond in the rough is more like it!
This is absolutely in my top 3 favorite Albums of all time.
The feeling in that living room comes through so clear you can close your eyes and feel like your there.
Johnny is just bursting with pure, raw talent on this album! It is absolutely beautiful!
I highly recommend this to everyone who loves music.

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Jack of Diamonds is a hard card to play

By T on June 20, 2013

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These songs are really good. I really like John Lee Hooker's guitar playing and his voice on these recordings. Can't believe these songs went 50 years without ever being released. But, it doesn't matter because the blues are timeless.

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EARLIEST JOHN LEE 'LIVE' RECORDINGS

By Brian L. Smith on July 18, 2004

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TOTALLY ESSENTIAL AND MAY NEED BUYING QUICKLY!!! This seems to be the same as the short-lived Flyright (UK) CD, 'The Unknown John Lee Hooker', possibly less one track. That was arguably the greatest discovery (of not just long lost, but TOTALLY UNKNOWN vintage material), of all time! At a 1949 private function for noted animator & film-maker, Gene Dietch (Bugs Bunny, later Tom & Jerry, etc) and his blues-fan friends, with JLH in the first year of his recording career. Learned of by sheer chance, when British collector/writer Paul "Sailor" Vernon ('Sailor's Delight' blues-mag, etc), interviewed him about his film work and learned of the appearance and (say it softly!) A STILL-EXISTING TAPE OF IT!!! Even the tale of that tape & its subsequent location is the stuff of thrillers, but this led to its issue on a CD by Bruce Bastin, noted British blues indie, on his Flyright label. One of the most welcome and significant releases since the war - but then(AT LEAST, so it was SAID) the suits around Hooker squashed it. Anyway, it rapidly disappeared so, if this is now an "approved" issue, well done, somebody!! If NOT, its days may be numbered, so GET IT WHILE YOU CAN!!!!!

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