Track Listing

1. Introduction by George Wein
2. Hobo Blues
3. Maudie
4. Introduction by John Lee Hooker
5. I Can't Quit You Baby
6. Stop Now Baby
7. Tupelo
8. Sometimes You Make Me Feel So Bad
9. Bus Station Blues
10. Introduction by John Lee Hooker
11. Let's Make It
12. Great Fire of Natchez
13. Boom Boom
14. You're Gonna Need Another Favor
15. Introduction by John Lee Hooker
16. Hobo Blues (alternate version)
17. Boom Boom (alternate version)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #205569 in Music
• Released on: 2002-04-02
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Live, Original recording remastered

Amazon.com
Although propulsive classics such as "Boogie Chillen" and "Dimples" had already established John Lee Hooker among the most electrifying artists within the blues community, his performances at the Newport Folk Festival in 1960 and '63 found him catering to the biases of a broader, younger (and whiter) audience: folk-revival fans who preferred acoustic to electric and country blues to the modern urban strain. Thus, the Detroit-based Hooker did his best to approximate the styles he'd left behind in his native Mississippi a couple of decades earlier. The brooding narrative balladry of "Tupelo" and "Great Fire of Natchez" benefits from this stripped-down approach, and Hooker feels more at liberty to change tempos and keys throughout. But the unplugged versions of staples such as "Boom Boom" barely approach the sensual swagger of Hooker at his most musically potent. This 17-cut reissue includes three previously unreleased tracks, plus another appearing for the first time on CD. --Don McLeese

Customer Reviews

Boom Boom
John Lee Hooker is one of the pioneers of the blues together with BB King, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and others. His performance at Newport is the start of his career in Europe in the sixties. Because people did hear the LP. A few years later he came to Europe. He inspired Harry Muskee, the leader of the best bluesband of The Netherlands, Cuby and The Blizzards (C+B). Do you like to hear a white man (Harry) sing the blues like a black man (JL)? Buy the CD of C+B: Boom Boom Bang In The Spirit Of John Lee Hooker (2003) and the CD Groeten uit Grolloo (1967).