Highway of the Blues

Artista: Hooker, John Lee

Formato: COMPACT DISCS

Gravadora/Label: GYSC

Catalogo: 185

Faixas: 1.1 Whiskey
1.2 Women And Loaded Dice
1.3 Sad
1.4 Bad
1.5 Glad
1.6 Head Happy With Wine
1.7 Dealin’ From The Bottom
1.8
1.9 Get Your Mind Out Of The Gutter
1.10 Jungle Juice
1.11 Nightmare Blues
1.12 Moaning Blues
1.13 Don’t Go Baby
1.14 Thinking Blues
1.15 Late Last Night
1.16 Devil’s Jump

John Lee Hooker (1917 – 2001) was a true original – an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist who rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-style adaptation of Delta blues. Hooker often incorporated other elements, including talking blues and early North Mississippi Hill country blues. He developed his own driving-rhythm boogie style, distinct from the 1930s-1940s piano-derived boogie-woogie. Listening to this record is such an evocative experience, it takes one back to a different time, and a different place; the Mississippi Delta back when the 20th Century was relatively young and is a must for every blues afficianado.