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No Shoes: John Lee Hooker
The first volume of awe-inspiring blues from musical titan John Lee Hooker, highlights include the title track No Shoes and Boom Boom.
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1 | Dimples | John Lee Hooker |
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2 | Boom Boom | John Lee Hooker |
3 | No Shoes | John Lee Hooker |
4 | I'm In The Mood | John Lee Hooker |
5 | Mad Man Blues | John Lee Hooker |
6 | Huckle Up Baby | John Lee Hooker |
7 | Hoogie Boogie | John Lee Hooker |
8 | Do The Boogie | John Lee Hooker |
9 | Baby Lee | John Lee Hooker |
10 | Hobo Blues | John Lee Hooker |
11 | I'm So Excited | John Lee Hooker |
12 | Sugar Mama | John Lee Hooker |
13 | Blues Before Sunrise | John Lee Hooker |
14 | I Got A Letter (This Morning) | John Lee Hooker |
15 | I'm Goin' Upstairs | John Lee Hooker |
16 | Big Soul | John Lee Hooker |
17 | Good Rocking Mama | John Lee Hooker |
About the tracks
This collection shows off the blues at its primal best. Each track is a defining musical gesture, with an overpowering expressive force, and reminds us of the overwhelming extent to which blues has left an indelible mark on popular music in recent times.
About the artist
John Lee Hooker was one of the key musical revolutionaries of his age. An African-American, his music directly responds to racial adversity and sets the benchmark for subsequent blues-writers. It also brought people’s attention to the ways in which the guitar could really lift a piece of music into an emotional stratosphere.