I’m always suprised at how the group of record collectors and fans that grew up in the eighties and ninties know all about obscure acts like Esquerita and Kid Thomas but don’t own one John Lee Hooker (or Lightnin’ Hopkins or Jimmy Reed) record. His best sides are usually one chord boogies or stomps, crude, distorted and utterly compelling discs, but often obscured by the amount of crap he later recorded and that fills up the record bins. But he was not only one of the most famous blues singers of all time, he really was probably the most primitive artists to sell a lot of records. I don’t know how many John Lee Hooker albums, CD’s, 78’s and 45’s I own, and I’m not about to try and count them, but let’s just say there’s a mess of ’em here, some of ’em are great, some are good and some aren’t so good. 22, 1917 outside of Clarksdale, Mississippi) was probably the most recorded blues artist of all time.
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