Blues for Aficionados

Earl Hooker

BLUE GUITAR

Paula Records  1991

Excerpts from the Notes: "Before the age of ten while Earl Hooker and his family lived in Clarksdale, Mississippi, Earl taught himself to play the guitar.  At the age of ten his family moved to Chicago.  That following year he attended Lyon and Healy Music School...In the early 1940's he occasionally worked the streets for tips with Bo Diddley and others.... In 1949 he toured for several years with Ike Turner's group throughout Tennessee, Mississippi and Florida...frequently appeared with Sonny Boy Williamson on the King Biscuit Time on radio station KFFA in Helena, Arkansas...In 1965 he appeared with the Beatles on the Ready Steady Go show on BBC-TV...  He was thought to be one of the finest but underappreciated guitarists in modern Blues music.  Earl Zebedee Hooker died of tuberculosis in Chicago, April 21, 1970 at the age of 40."

Calling all Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_yLTTQ9c6g

Blue Guitar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZHWZZtkMJU

Swear to Tell the Truth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UWm-ybWDFo

Blues in D natural
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQynjFhpYNw

Cheers

John Lee Hooker

THE HEALER

Chameleon Records 1989

Notes: "When Adam and Eve first saw each other, that’s when the Blues started,"says John Lee Hooker. No matter what anybody says, it all comes down to the same thing: a man and a woman, a broken heart, and a broken home -- you know what I mean?"

I’m in the Mood with Bonnie Raitt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2J0nntpcts

Baby Lee with Robert Cray
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH2zgDAsYA8

Sally Mae with George Thorogood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppvSAckZJuE

Rockin’ Chair with John Lee Hooker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHcf1HNtJ18

That’s Alright with Charlie Musselwhite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOyR0o7M75w

Cheers

John Lee Hooker

THE LEGENDARY MODERN RECORDINGS 1948-1954

Flair / Virgin  1993

Nice fold out booklet.  24 Tracks.

Hoogie Boogie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8REaKth4vcg

Boogie Chillen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tusF57ZtyXc

Sally Mae
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xELH45yImko

Crawling King Snake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUdjbvwpZYM

Howlin' Wolf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKzKQs4n92Y

Cheers

Chris Thomas King - Red Mud
Chris Smither - Another Way to Find You

Son House

THE ORIGINAL DELTA BLUES

Columbia / Legacy     1965 / 1998

Notes: "...Persuading them to lose the carefully acquired skills of several decades and play in the fashion of their youth required a certain amount of tact.  Thirty years on, it seems prescriptive and high handed.  Eddie  J. House Jr.--Son House--provided no surprises of that kind when he got his second chance.  He had not played music at all for seven or eight years, and probably not with any regularity since the early 1940s, when he left his native Mississippi to live and work in Rochester in upstate New York.  Unlike some of his contemporaries, he was not about to "go electric", or to break into a recent R&B hit like "High Heel Sneakers."   His repertoire and guitar techniques really were frozen in the past."

wiki:
Born: March 21, 1902, Lyon, MS
Died: October 19, 1988, Detroit, MI


Pearline
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMvFa3qteu8

John The Revelator
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_QnBIarHc0

Death Letter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsgFo2irGjo

Levee Camp Moan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsgFo2irGjo

Preachin' Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmR7jjOoFOw

Cheers