I'm a Boogie Man: The Essential Masters 1948-1953
Released: Sep 21, 2004
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Released: Sep 21, 2004
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Given the accounting practices of many independent record companies in the 1940s and '50s, John Lee Hooker was doubtless wise to believe he wasn't getting the sort of money he deserved after 1948's...
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Black Night Is Falling
Released: Jun 22, 2004
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Released: Jun 22, 2004
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Recorded at the Rising Sun Celebrity Jazz Club in Montreal, Quebec, on May 5, 1977, Black Night Is Falling finds John Lee Hooker in fine voice and backed by a driving band composed of John Garcia...
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Down Home Blues
Released: Jun 15, 2004
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Released: Jun 15, 2004
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John Lee Hooker never met a record contract with an exclusivity clause he felt he needed to honor, and he recorded under countless different names for any label that would pay him the cash in the...
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Jack O' Diamonds: 1949 Recordings
Released: May 18, 2004
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Released: May 18, 2004
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The material on Jack o' Diamonds was recorded in 1949 but never released at the time due to John Lee Hooker's vast contractual problems. Even at this earliest point in his career, Hooker was tied...
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