John Lee Hooker-The Best of John Lee Hooker 1965-1974 (1992)


Artist: John Lee Hooker

Title: The Best of John Lee Hooker 1965-1974

Label: MCA

Format: CD

Cat: MCAD-10539

Year of Release: 1992

Country and Year of Edition: US BMG club edition reissue

Sell Price: $2.99 VG+/VG+ 2/26/23

Discogs Last Sold: 3/3/23 NM/NM $15.23

Low:$0.99

Median: $2.24

Average: $2.44

High: $4.00

Current low price: $0.75

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 22

Have/Want: 104/5

Where Sold: Santa Fe, NM

Time it took to sell: 11 years

Where and When BMG record club mid 90's

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A

Sad To See It Go: No

Some artists are compiled ad infinitum, and this CD was a $3 add on in a much larger vinyl order.  In the 90's it was a state of the art compilation of the ABC years plus one on Impulse and one on Chess.  The people that complain about this era are the same sort of purist that would tell you Muddy Waters Electric Mud is bad or would think Hooker 'n Heat is some sort of unholy union.

The comp kicks off with a song covered to great Rock radio popularity by George Thorogood, "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer."  "Never Get Out Of These Blues Alive" from the 1972 album brings out peak period Van Morrison for a 10 plus minute workout.  My favorite cut on here is probably "House Rent Boogie" from 1971's Endless Boogie and "The Motor City Is Burning" from 1967's Urban Blues probably come close.  Those are albums I never had, though I did have a copy if It Serves You Right To Suffer which opens with the excellent "Shake It Baby" that is included here.  If I'm gonna track some albums down from this era, I'd probably start there.  What can I say he's got alot of records and even more compilation albums that try to sort everything out and it can still get a little messy.

Hooker lived 1912 to 2001, so this one catches him from age 55 to 64, prime revival age for the hippie kids that were covering his music.  He had been around a bit and had a long way to go in terms of a recording career and was working on material up to the end of his life.  Still, this is a good place to spend an hour. 

And one more!

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