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JOHN LEE HOOKER HOW LONG BLUES
FOLK BLUES USA
VINYL RIP
Recorded: Detroit, MI, April, 1959
Label:Fontana
Format:[email protected]
688 700 ZL-(Folk Blues U.S.A.) How Long Blues, 1964
Reissue of Riverside 838
6114-How Long Blues1960
Reissue of Riverside 838 also reissued as Fantasy 24722/Black Snake
John Lee Hooker plays acoustical country blues
John Lee Hooker's guitar playing is closely aligned with piano Boogie Woogie. The songs that most epitomize his early sound are "Boogie Chillen", about being 17 and wanting to go out to dance at the Boogie clubs, "Baby Please Don't Go", a more typical blues song, summed up by its title, and "Tupelo", a stunningly sad song about the flooding of Tupelo, Mississippi.
He maintained a solo career, popular with blues and folk music fans of the early 1960s and crossed over to white audiences, giving an early opportunity to the young Bob Dylan. This casual, rambling style had been gradually diminishing with the onset of electric blues bands from Chicago but, even when not playing solo, Hooker retained it in his sound.
Though Hooker lived in Detroit during most his career, he is not associated with the Chicago-style blues prevalent in large northern cities, as much as he is with the southern rural blues styles, known as delta blues, country blues, folk blues, or "front porch blues". His use of an electric guitar tied together the Delta blues with the emerging post-war electric blues.
Side 1
A1 Black Snake
A2 How Long Blues
A3 Wobblin' Baby
A4 She's Long, She's Tall, She Weeps Like A Willow Tree
A5 Pea Vine Special
A6 Tupelo Blues
Side 2
B1 I Rowed A Little Boat
B2 Water Boy
B3 Church Bell Tone
B4 Bundle Up And Go
B5 Good Mornin', Lil' School Girl
B6 Behind The Plow
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