Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Boogie Chillen
2. Sally Mae
3. See See Baby
4. She Was In Chicago
5. Stomp Boogie
6. Who's Been Jiving You
7. Black Man Blues
8. Poor Joe
9. Good Business
10. Boogie Woogie
11. Helpless Blues
12. Goin' Mad Blues
13. Low Down Midnite Boogie
14. Landing Blues
15. Morning Blues
16. Drifting From Door To Door
17. Hobo Blues
18. Howlin' Wolf
19. Crawling King Snake
20. She Ain't Good For Nothin'
21. Cotton Pickin' Blues
22. Must I Wait Till Your Man Is Gone
23. We Gonna Make Everything Alright
24. Miss Rosie Mae
25. Highway Blues

Disc 2:

1. Hoogie Boogie
2. Graveyard Blues
3. Whistlin' And Moaning Blues
4. I Love To Boogie
5. Miss Eloise
6. Burnin' Hell
7. I Had A Dream
8. Nightmare Blues
9. Late Last Night
10. Wandering Blues
11. Don't Go Baby
12. Devil's Jump
13. I'm Gonna Kill That Woman
14. Moaning Blues
15. The Numbers
16. Weeping Willow
17. Miss Sadie Mae
18. Sometime
19. Forgive Me
20. Heart Trouble Blues
21. Slim's Stomp
22. Miss Lorraine
23. Talkin' Boogie
24. Road Trouble
25. 609 Boogie

Disc 3:

1. No Friend Around
2. Wednesday Evening
3. Canal Street Blues
4. Playin' The Races
5. Huckle Up Baby
6. Let Your Daddy Ride
7. Goin' On Highway 51
8. The Moon Above
9. She Left Me By Myself
10. No Mortgage On My Soul
11. My Baby's Got Somethin'
12. Decoration Day Blues
13. Boogie Chillen No.2
14. Roll 'N' Roll
15. Crying All Night
16. One More Time
17. I Don't Be Welcome Here
18. Welfare Blues
19. Turnin' Gray Blues
20. The Story Of A Married Woman
21. Mad Man Blues
22. Boogie Now
23. Thinking Blues
24. Don't You Remember Me
25. Give Me Your Phone Number

Disc 4:

1. Notoriety Woman
2. Never Satisfied
3. Moon Is Rising
4. Please Have Mercy
5. John L's House Rent Boogie
6. Queen Bee
7. You've Got Another Man
8. If You Need My Lovin' Baby
9. Nobody To Talk To Me
10. Prison Bound
11. Bumble Bee Blues
12. Questionnaire Blues
13. Real Gone Gal
14. Little Boy Blues
15. My Daddy Was A Jockey
16. Mean Old Train
17. Catfish
18. Louise
19. I'm Going Away
20. Tease Me Baby
21. Streets Is Filled With Women
22. Me And My Woman
23. Whistle Done Blown
24. How Can You Do It
25. I'm In The Mood

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #331998 in Music
• Released on: 2002-06-11
• Number of discs: 4
• Format: Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .86 pounds

Customer Reviews

Excellent Early John Lee Hooker
Mostly just John Lee Hooker, his electric guitar and his left foot... This is the early, early solo Hooker before he was consistently using a backing band. The sound quality is very good on this collection considering the sources are often rare 78s, etc. I have several box sets of this early period and this JSP box with 100 tracks on it is certainly as good as any of the others. You get an excellent selection of classic and essential early Hooker in very good sound quality. Get this box set and you will not regret it! If you can also manage to acquire the now out of print "Alternative Boogie" box issued by Capital you will have just about all you really need for early Hooker material.

Classic Hooker Indeed
I tend to agree with about all the other reviewer had to say about this set, although I would probably recommend The Legendary Modern Recordings first, if you are new to Hooker. The sound on that single disc collection is slightly better than that on this set, and it covers roughly the same period (actually up to 1954). If you dig that Modern disc, by all means get this set and the 3 disc Capitol (Alternative Boogie 1948-52) as well as Jack O' Diamonds: 1949 Recordings, which contains several very rare tracks. Another highly recommended disc isLive At The Cafe Au Go-Go (And Soledad Prison). His vocals on "Bad like Jesse James" will send a chill down your spine and your neck hair stand up on end. Definately my favorite Hooker with full band set. Back to this JSP set. Unlike Proper (another UK record company), JSP uses very little noise reduction in their transfers, so some of the poorer quality sources tend to have some hiss. On the other hand Proper, in some cases, uses too much filtering, resulting in poor high frequencies. I own quite a few sets by both labels and all are very good. I just prefer JSP's technique in most cases.