Track Listing

1. Go Back to School, Little Girl
2. It Serves You Right to Suffer
3. Roll Your Daddy Right
4. Jesse James Blues
5. Never Get out of These Blues Alive
6. Boogie Chillun'
7. Dead Wagon Blues

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #360222 in Music
• Released on: 2001-10-09
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Live

Customer Reviews

The Cream + Alone = Live in Houston
A 20-plus years old previously unreleased (I think) import live album? Worried? Don't be. This 1979 live Hooker album on the well-established JSP Records label is worth the purchase. "Live in Houston" can be thought of as a combination of two other live albums from the same era, "The Cream" (pretty decent full-band recordings) and "Alone" (very good solo, hushed, menacing recordings.) The first four songs here feature a full band, though it is very restrained on the fourth, yet another version of "Jesse James Blues". The last three songs are nice solo Hooker. Only seven songs? Well, that is a problem, and the 36-plus minutes are over before full momentum can be gained. Other quibbles? The sound is solid overall, but the bass is barely audible. Could have used more bottom. Most of the songs are familiar, including a too-short solo "Boogie Chillun" and "Dead Wagon Blues", which is "TB Sheets" retitled for some reason. Still, if you like the two live albums I previously mentioned, give this one a shot. It's probably one of the latest (1979; "The Cream" and "Alone" were a couple years earlier) Hooker live albums available.

Decent Live JLH Recording
Mixed bag on this recording. It's John Lee and it's live so it can't be that bad and it's not. The album is short, sound quality is poor, and backing band doesn't seem that great. The set is half with band and half solo. Jesse James is doen solo and is one of the creepiest blues tunes made. Live at CAfe Au-Au\Soledad Prison is much better if you are look for live JLH.