Release Date: 27 November, 2001
Audio CD
Tracks
- Dimples
- Unfriendly Woman
- Time Is Marchin
- Im So Worried Baby
- Every Night
- The Road Is So Rough
- Trouble Blues
- Baby Lee
- Everybody Rockin
- Im So Excited
- Crawlin Black Spider
- Little Wheel
- Little Fine Woman
- Rosie Mae
- You Can Lead Me Baby
- I Love You Honey
- Youve Taken My Woman
- Mama You Got A Daughter
- Maudie
- Im In The Mood
- Boogie Chillun
- Hobo Blues
- Crawlin Kingsnake
- Nightmare
- House Rent Boogie
- Drive Me Away
- Sally Mae
- Moanin Blues
- Tupelo (Live)
- Wednesday Evening Blues
- Dirty Ground Hog
- Five Long Years
- My First Wife Left Me
- I Cant Believe
- Solid Sender
- Sunny Land
- Im A Stranger
- No Shoes
- One Way Ticket
- Half A Stranger
- Boom Boom
- Whiskey And Wimmin
- Dusty Road
- Im Mad Again
- Want Ad Blues
- Im Going Upstairs
- Process
- Lets Make It
- Blues Before Sunrise
- Ive Got A Letter
- Drug Store Woman
- Send Me Your Pillow
- Take A Look At Yourself
- This Is Hip
- Im Leaving Baby
- Birmingham Blues
- Dont Look Back
- Your Baby Aint Sweet Like Mine
- It Serves Me Right To Suffer
- Big Legs Tight Skirt
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Rating 4.0
Good stuff from Hooker's best periodThis may look like a second-rate box set, but it actually draws from John Lee Hooker's best period, his classic 50s and 60s Vee-Jay sides, which produced some of his most accessible and enjoyable singles ("Dimples", "Hobo Blues", "Blues Before Sunrise", "Big Legs, Tight Skirt", "Time Is Marchin'", "It Serves Me Right To Suffer").
Not everything you'll ever want to hear from that period is here, and Tomato's two discs covering the same period and titled "The Early Years vol. I-II remain the best overview of the Hook's Vee-Jay years, but this is actually a good place to get a lot of great stuff all at once. |
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