Vendor: John Lee Hooker & Skip James
Type: Bundle
Price: 27.00

Burning Hell description:
Burning Hell was recorded in 1959 in Detroit, MI, but wasn’t released until 1964. Even then, it was only available in the UK. The album features Hooker solo as he plays originals and classics. AllMusic states that, on this album, “Hooker shows himself to be an excellent interpreter who could have held his own with Delta bluesmen of any era.”

Today! description:
Today! is Skip James’ second album, originally released in 1966. The album features James solo on all but one track, “How Long,” which includes Russ Savakus on bass.AllMusic asserts, “wonderful vocals, superb guitar and a couple of tunes with tasty piano make this essential.”  

Vendor: John Lee Hooker
Type: CD
Price: 15.00

Burning Hell was recorded in 1959 in Detroit, MI, but wasn’t released until 1964. Even then, it was only available in the UK. Pressed at QRP as part of the Bluesville Records / Acoustic Sounds series, the album features Hooker solo as he plays originals and classics. AllMusic states that, on this album, “Hooker shows himself to be an excellent interpreter who could have held his own with Delta bluesmen of any era.” 

Vendor: John Lee Hooker
Type: CD
Price: 11.99

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John Lee Hooker was already being hailed as a living legend in the '60s, but by the time of this 1986 release he was a larger-than-life figure, his iconic stature unquestioned. From his earliest collaborations with Canned Heat and on through the '70s and '80s, the rock world never got tired of trying to endear Hooker to a crossover audience.

Jealous is an attempt to adapt Hooker's lonesome blues to full-band arrangements. Unlike his band recordings of the '50s, though, there's a decided rock edge to his accompaniment here, providing a sharp contrast to the down-home, earthy sound of Hooker's voice and guitar. Organ, electric guitar, and a forceful rhythm section baked in reverb back Hooker on Jealous. Instead of overpowering Hooker, though, these new arrangements place the bluesman on a sonic pedestal, from which he sounds like the voice of God dispensing wisdom through the blues.

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Vendor: John Lee Hooker
Type: CD
Price: 11.99

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Since he won a Grammy Award for 1989's The Healer, John Lee Hooker, now 79 years old, has been an unusually hot property. He has played with the likes of Rolling Stones, Branford Marsalis and B.B. King. Don't Look Back finds the party continuing, with old friend/disciple Van Morrison, who guested on 1995's Chill Out, now in the producer's seat.

Apart from a raucous reading of the old Hooker standard "Dimples," which features backing from Los Lobos, Don't Look Back leans towards varying shades of slow blues. Emotion is stressed over barn-burning instrumental heroics, particularly on the songs that ride along on Charles Brown's melancholic piano playing. Producer Morrison's duets with his idol on "Travellin' Blues" and Morrison's "The Healing Game" bring out the best in both legends. 

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Vendor: John Lee Hooker
Type: CD
Price: 11.99

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One of a series of superb John Lee Hooker albums recorded in the '90s, Chill Out clearly shows that he remains at the top of his game. The opening (and title) track features guitar god and long time Hooker fan Carlos Santana (with his band). Although quite slick sounding, Santana's Latin funk grooves and typically blistering solo fit surprisingly well with John Lee's gutbucket vocals--a testament to the aging blues man's incredible versatility. Roy Rogers (the blues guy, not the cowboy fast food mogul) reveals himself as an adept and sensitive producer and also adds some very tasty slide guitar on four tunes. Whether with a full band or all alone, John Lee Hooker's talent burns brightly throughout the album. 

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Vendor: John Lee Hooker
Type: Box Set
Price: 69.99

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King Of The Boogie is a career-spanning retrospective, honoring blues icon John Lee Hooker. The five-CD set delves deep into the catalog of the influential artist, featuring not only his iconic hits, but also rarities, live recordings and several previously unreleased tracks. The collection offers 100 tracks which span Hooker’s career, covering not only his iconic hits, but also diving deep into his catalog for rare tracks, live recordings plus previously unreleased material.

Housed in a 56-page book, the collection includes a wide selection of photos, taken throughout the musician’s life, plus new liner notes by writer and John Lee Hooker historian Jas Obrecht, as well as by the artist’s longtime manager and friend, Mike Kappus.

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Disc 1:
1. Boogie Chillen’ – John Lee Hooker And His Guitar
2. Sally May – John Lee Hooker And His Guitar
3. Hobo Blues – John Lee Hooker And His Guitar
4. Crawlin’ King Snake – John Lee Hooker & His Guitar
5. Black Man Blues – Texas Slim
6. Goin’ Mad Blues – Delta John
7. Who’s Been Jivin’ You – Texas Slim
8. (Miss Sadie Mae) Curl My Baby’s Hair
9. Hoogie Boogie – John Lee Hooker And His Guitar
10. Burnin’ Hell – John Lee Hooker And His Guitar
11. Weeping Willow Boogie
12. Moaning Blues – Texas Slim
13. Huckle Up Baby – John Lee Hooker And His Guitar
14. Goin’ On Highway #51 – John Lee Hooker And His Guitar
15. John L’s House Rent Boogie
16. I’m In The Mood
17. Two White Horses
18. 33 Blues
19. Sugar Mama
20. Wobbling Baby
21. Stuttering Blues – John Lee Booker
22. I’m A Boogie Man – Johnny Lee
23. Down Child
24. Odds Against Me (Backbiters And Syndicaters)
25. Shake, Holler And Run

Disc 2:
1. Unfriendly Woman [Aka Stop Now]*
2. Mambo Chillun
3. Time Is Marching
4. Dimples
5. Little Wheel
6. I Love You Honey
7. Drive Me Away
8. Maudie
9. When I Lay My Burden Down*
10. Tupelo Blues
11. Good Mornin’ Lil’ School Girl
12. I Rolled And Turned And Cried The Whole Night Long
13. No More Doggin’
14. Dusty Road
15. No Shoes
16. My First Wife Left Me
17. Crazy About That Walk - Sir John Lee Hooker
18. Want Ad Blues
19. Will The Circle Be Unbroken
20. I’m Going Upstairs
21. I Lost My Job
22. Don’t Turn Me From Your Door
23. Grinder Man
24. Meat Shakes On Her Bone*

Disc 3:
1. Boom Boom
2. Blues Before Sunrise
3. She’s Mine
4. Frisco Blues
5. Good Rockin’ Mama
6. I’m Leaving
7. Birmingham Blues
8. Don’t Look Back
9. Big Legs, Tight Skirt
10. It Serves Me Right
11. Money
12. One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
13. The Motor City Is Burning
14. Mean, Mean Woman
15. Doin’ The Shout
16. Homework
17. Early One Morning
18. Rocking Chair
19. Hittin’ The Bottle Again
20. Deep Blue Sea
21. Spellbound

Disc 4: LIVE
1. Hobo Blues – Live
2. Maudie – Live
3. Shake It Baby – Live
4. Boogie Chillun – Live
5. Bottle Up And Go – Live
6. Crawlin’ King Snake – Live
7. The Mighty Fire – Live
8. You’ve Got To Walk Yourself – Live
9. I’m Bad Like Jesse James – Live
10. Boogie Everywhere I Go – Live
11.She’s Gone*– Live
12.It Serves Me Right To Suffer*– Live
13. Boom Boom* – Live
14. Hi-Heel Sneakers* – Live
15. One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer* – Live

Disc 5: FRIENDS
1. I Got Eyes For You – With “Little” Eddie Kirkland
2. Mai Lee – With The Groundhogs
3. Peavine – With Canned Heat
4. Never Get Out Of These Blues Alive – With Van Morrison
5. Five Long Years – With Joe Cocker
6. The Healer – With Carlos Santana
7. I’m In The Mood – With Bonnie Raitt
8. Sally Mae – With George Thorogood
9. Mr. Lucky – With Robert Cray
10. Up And Down – With Warren Haynes
11. Boom Boom – With Jimmie Vaughan
12. You Shook Me – With B.B. King
13. Don’t Look Back – With Van Morrison
14. Dimples – With Los Lobos
15. Boogie Chillen’ – With Eric Clapton

*previously unreleased

Features

• Five-disc set featuring 100 tracks 
• Deluxe folio-style hardcover package features a 56-page book  

Vendor: John Lee Hooker
Type: CD
Price: 15.99

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The Healer is a critically acclaimed album from “King of the Boogie” John Lee Hooker. First released in 1989, the collection features collaborations with artists including Carlos Santana, Bonnie Raitt, Charlie Musselwhite, Canned Heat, Los Lobos and George Thorogood. Hooker was 73 years of age when The Healer came out and earned his first—of many future—GRAMMY® accolades, winning Best Traditional Blues Performance for “I’m In The Mood.”

Tracklist

1. The Healer (with Carlos Santana & The Santana Band)
2. I’m In The Mood (with Bonnie Raitt)
3. Baby Lee (with Robert Cray)
4. Cuttin’ Out (with Canned Heat)
5. Think Twice Before You Go (with Los Lobos)
6. Sally Mae (with George Thorogood)
7. That’s Alright (with Charlie Musselwhite)
8. Rockin’ Chair
9. My Dream
10. No Substitute

Features

• Includes collaborations with Carlos Santana, Bonnie Raitt, Charlie Musselwhite, Canned Heat, Los Lobos and George Thorogood, among others
  
• Featuring GRAMMY® Award-winning track “I’m In The Mood” (Best Traditional Blues Performance)

Vendor: John Lee Hooker
Type: Vinyl
Price: 29.99

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The Healer is a critically acclaimed album from “King of the Boogie” John Lee Hooker. First released in 1989, the collection features collaborations with artists including Carlos Santana, Bonnie Raitt, Charlie Musselwhite, Canned Heat, Los Lobos and George Thorogood. Hooker was 73 years of age when The Healer came out and earned his first—of many future—GRAMMY® accolades, winning Best Traditional Blues Performance for “I’m In The Mood.”

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Side A

1. The Healer (with Carlos Santana & The Santana Band)
2. I’m In The Mood (with Bonnie Raitt)
3. Baby Lee (with Robert Cray)
4. Cuttin’ Out (with Canned Heat)
5. Think Twice Before You Go (with Los Lobos)

Side B

1. Sally Mae (with George Thorogood)
2. That’s Alright (with Charlie Musselwhite)
3. Rockin’ Chair
4. My Dream
5. No Substitute

Features

• Pressed on 180-gram vinyl at QRP
• LP featuring audio cut by Bernie Grundman
• Album has been out of print for over a decade
• Includes collaborations with Carlos Santana, Bonnie Raitt, Charlie Musselwhite, Canned Heat, Los Lobos and George Thorogood, among others
• Featuring GRAMMY® Award-winning track “I’m In The Mood” (Best Traditional Blues Performance)

Vendor: John Lee Hooker
Type: Vinyl
Price: 30.00

Celebrating the 60th anniversary of John Lee Hooker’s electrifying blues classic, Burnin’, this 180-gram reissue offers newly remastered audio from the original analog tapes. Featuring a stereo mix of the album, as it was first released in 1962, the set includes the King of the Boogie’s signature hit, “Boom Boom,” and features members of the legendary Funk Brothers (Motown Records’ celebrated house band). A tip-on jacket, which replicates Vee-Jay Records’ original designs, rounds out the package.

Vendor: John Lee Hooker & Skip James
Type: Bundle
Price: 52.00

Vendor: John Lee Hooker
Type: Digital Album
Price: 18.00

Deliverable via email in your choice of MP3, WAV, ALAC, or FLAC on June 7, 2024.

Vendor: John Lee Hooker
Type: Vinyl
Price: 30.00

Vendor: John Lee Hooker
Type: CD
Price: 16.00

This expanded 60th anniversary edition of John Lee Hooker’s electrifying blues classic, Burnin’, offers both stereo and newly mixed mono versions of the album. The tracklist features the King of the Boogie’s signature hit, “Boom Boom,” plus a previously unreleased alternate take of “Thelma,” captured during Hooker’s 1961 session. Includes new liner notes by the GRAMMY®-nominated music historian, Bill Dahl, offered in an 8-page poster booklet.

Vendor: John Lee Hooker
Type: Vinyl
Price: 29.98

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John Lee Hooker’s debut on Riverside Records is perhaps the truest to his Mississippi roots. Unaccompanied and playing acoustically instead of his usual amplified guitar, he turned in a wonderfully varied set of deep Delta blues, moans, boogies, one field holler, and even a bit of hokum. Some songs are autobiographical, others reworkings of blues standards–all stamped with the hauntingly personal Hooker touch.

The audio for this 60th anniversary release is sourced from the original stereo tapes that were mastered on all analog by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio. It’s pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Memphis Record Pressing.

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Side A

1. Black Snake 
2. How Long Blues 
3. Wobblin’ Baby 
4. She’s Long, She’s Tall, She Weeps Like A Willow Tree 
5. Pea Vine Special 
6. Tupelo Blues 
7. I’m Prison Bound

Side B

1. I Rowed A Little Boat 
2. Water Boy 
3. Church Bell Tone 
4. Good Mornin’, Lil’ School Girl 
5. Behind The Plow

Features

• All Analog mastering from the original stereo tapes by Kevin Grey at Cohearent Audio
• Pressed on 180-gram vinyl
• 60th Anniversary Edition

Vendor: John Lee Hooker
Type: CD
Price: 14.99

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Much of Hooker's best-loved work was recorded for independent Chicago labels like Vee-Jay in the '50s and '60s, but the bluesman's long, prolific career began in the late '40s in Detroit. During that time, as chronicled on Graveyard Blues, Hooker refined the doomy, foot-stomping boogie style that would become his trademark. The Hooker of '49-'50 sounds less tormented, lacking the existential edge of his later recordings. Instead, there's a light-heartedness and almost peppy swing to these tunes.

Hooker's voice is a touch higher and less throaty, but his guitar is cutting, and he'd already mastered his patented boogie beat. Hooker achieved no small amount of success with his recordings from this era, including one of his most famous songs, "Boogie Chillen," heard here in an alternate version. Graveyard Blues offers a glimpse of an important, formative period in Hooker's career.

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Vendor: John Lee Hooker
Type: Digital Album
Price: 13.00

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[PRE-ORDER] Deliverable via email in your choice of MP3, WAV, ALAC, or FLAC.

This expanded 60th anniversary edition of John Lee Hooker’s electrifying blues classic, Burnin’, offers both stereo and newly mixed mono versions of the album. Audio has been remastered from the original analog tapes. The tracklist features the King of the Boogie’s signature hit, “Boom Boom,” plus a previously unreleased alternate take of “Thelma,” captured during Hooker’s 1961 session.