The Best Of John Lee Hooker | 
| Artist: John Lee Hooker
Label: Spectrum Audio
Category: Music
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 2642
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Running Time: 79 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 766486819627
EAN: 0766486819627
ASIN: B00000AOV3
Release Date: February 1, 2001
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer - John Lee Hooker, Ralph Bass, Lafayette Leake, Eddie Burns, Fred Below | | • | Never Get Out Of These Blues Alive - John Lee Hooker, Van Morrison | | • | Mr. Lucky - Al Smith, John Lee Hooker | | • | I'm Bad Like Jesse James - Bob Thiele, George Douglas, John Lee Hooker, Rudy Van Gelder | | • | Bluebird - John Lee Hooker | | • | Shake It Baby - Bob Thiele, John Lee Hooker, Joseph Barry Galbraith, David "Panama" Francis, Milt Hinton | | • | It Serve You Right To Suffer - Bob Thiele, John Lee Hooker, Milt Hinton, Barry Galbraith, David "Panama" Francis | | • | Bang Bang Bang Bang - Ed Michel, John Lee Hooker | | • | Think Twice Before You Go - Al Smith, John Lee Hooker | | • | Tantalizing With The Blues - John Lee Hooker | | • | Peace Lovin' Man - John Lee Hooker, Ralph Bass | | • | Stella Mae - John Lee Hooker, Ralph Bass | | • | I Put My Trust In You - John Lee Hooker, Ralph Bass | | • | The Waterfront - John Lee Hooker, Ralph Bass | | • | I Can't Quit You Baby - John Lee Hooker, Ralph Bass | | • | This Land Is Nobody's Land - John Lee Hooker, Ralph Bass | | • | Mad Man Blues - John Lee Hooker | | • | Apologize - John Lee Hooker | | • | I'm In The Mood - John Lee Hooker, Ralph Bass |
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great Hooker April 22, 2007
Wilf (Gloucester, England)
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
This was one of my earliest Hooker purchases and remains one of my absolute favourites.
The track selection is very good - given the HUGE number of Hooker recordings, its often hard to find a compilation without 2 or 3 duds, but this CD is an exception (apart from Baby Lee, which I've never rated).
Throughout, you are treated to the great man's totally distinctive sound - his stark, plain but striking voice and guitar, all of it entirely unadorned and unembellished - just a great master growlin' and howlin' and pickin' the blues!
An excellent sample of JLH's work, and one that has remained a favourite despite the passing years and expanding blues collection. You won't be disappointed.
one to play between 2-3am March 17, 2001
music@laker-media.co.uk (Sunny Swindon)
47 out of 52 found this review helpful
22 tracks, over an hour of pure boogie stompin' John Lee ... (originals that you'll find electrified and dueted on his latest masterpieces: Healer etc.) ... this collection dates between 1955 & 1964 and it just keeps on chillen, with the re-freshing originals!Not as gritty and raw as the earlier pure acoustic sets, but one where you can hear the base to what The Stones and Clapton listened to when they were learning to play - the influence just flows through. This is a well put together collection of JLH classics, buy one for the car, and one for the sofa BOOM BOOM
Excellent Album September 7, 2009
Mr. Christopher John Newman (Isle of Wight, UK)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you love John Lee Hooker, and you haven't any of his tracks, this is a must!
Msterpiece August 2, 2009
Cal (on the computer)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
From "One Bourbon, one scotch and one beer" onwards this compilation is perfect. Had a couple of tracks I'd never heard before like "Mad Man Blues" which stays very true to it's title and stands out in style to the other tracks. John Lee Hookers voice stays cool and soulful throughout, really softly bluesing on slow, beutiful tracks like "The Waterfront" but sounding almost better when slowly speaking on the likes of "I'm Bad Like Jesse James". Anyway before I just start ramblin' I'll just say BUY!!! IT!!! Pure brilliance.
 Disappointing June 1, 2009
S. Montague (Scotland)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I am just getting into Blues music and I had a few John Lee Hooker tracks (boom boom, Crawling king snake blues, When my first wife left me) which I liked a lot so I got this CD to hear more.
It totally failed to grab my attention. It felt like they took everything and sucked all the life out of it. Track two is a actually Van Morrison track with JLH introducing it and I assume playing in the background.This isn't some thing that should be on the very best of CD since its a Van Morrison track.
One for the Blues aficionados perhaps but not for someone with a passing interest.
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