John Lee Hooker (1970 Specialty Cleaned Vinyl LP Playtested SPS2125 Mono) Alone

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ALBUM VPI MACHINE CLEANED - PLAYTESTED

REMASTERED IN MONO

Artist: John Lee Hooker

Featuring: Eddie Burns, Andrew Dunham

Album Title: Alone

Catalogue Number: SPS 2125

Year/Record Company: 1970 Specialty Records

1 LP – Mono – 12” inch – 33 1/3

This is the authentic release & not a bootlegged or copied version. This LP album comes from my personal collection & has been playtested. It is stored under temperature & humidity regulated, smoke & pet free conditions.

LP Condition: excellent

Shine: most

Scratches: several feather

Labels: “Yen & Yang: labels, “Specialty” logo in yellow at top, very minimal wear

Spindle Hole Wear: very minimal

Sound: excellent

Surface Noise: minimal

Jacket Condition: excellent

Shrink Wrap/Stickers: none

Seam Wear: minimal

Back/Front Ring Wear: minimal

Ink/Stains: none

Drill Holes/Saw Cuts: none

Sleeve: new anti-static sleeve

Cover Photo: Richard Staehling

Liner Notes: Barret Hansen & Alan Wilson of Canned Heat

Song List:

Side One

Rollin’ Blues 2:47

I Need Lovin’ 2:54

Do My Baby Think Of Me 2:52

Me 2:52

Build Myself A Cave 2:58

Black Cat Blues 3:00

Alberta 3:04

Boogie Chillen #2 2:44

Side Two

Momma Poppa Boogie 2:56

Sailing Blues 2:47

Graveyard Blues 2:47

Huckle Up Baby 2:46

Three Long Years Today 3:04

Walkin’ This Highway 2:16

Burnin’ Hell 2:42

John Lee Hooker (c. August 22, 1912[1] – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. The son of a sharecropper, he 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.

Hooker's recording career began in 1948, when Los Angeles-based Modern Records released a demo he had recorded for Bernie Besman in Detroit. The single, "Boogie Chillen'", became a hit and the biggest selling race record of 1949. Despite being illiterate, Hooker was a prolific lyricist. In addition to adapting traditional blues lyrics, he also composed originals. In the 1950s, many black musicians earned little money from record sales. So Hooker often recorded variations on his songs for new studios for an upfront fee. To get around his recording contract, he used various pseudonyms, such as John Lee Booker, for Chess Records and Chance Records in 1951–1952; Johnny Lee for De Luxe Records in 1953–54; John Lee, John Lee Cooker,[13] Texas Slim, Delta John, Birmingham Sam and his Magic Guitar, Johnny Williams, and the Boogie Man.

His early solo songs were recorded by Bernie Besman. John Lee Hooker rarely played with a standard beat, instead, he changed tempo to fit the needs of the song. This often made it difficult to use backing musicians, who were not accustomed to Hooker's musical vagaries. As a result, Besman recorded Hooker, in addition to playing guitar and singing, stomping along with the music on a wooden pallet. For much of this time period he recorded and toured with Eddie Kirkland. Later sessions for Vee-Jay Records in Chicago used studio musicians on most of his recordings, including Eddie Taylor, who could handle his musical idiosyncrasies. "Boom Boom" and "Dimples", two popular Hooker numbers, were originally released on Vee-Jay. (source: Wikipedia)

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