John Lee Hooker - Live In Chicago: The WXRT Broadcast (2018)

John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1912 or 1917 – 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.

Some of his best known songs include "Boogie Chillen'" (1948), "Crawling King Snake" (1949), "Dimples" (1956), "Boom Boom" (1962), and "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" (1966). Several of his later albums, including The Healer (1989), Mr. Lucky (1991), Chill Out (1995), and Don't Look Back (1997), were album chart successes in the U.S. and U.K. The Healer (for the song "I'm In The Mood") and Chill Out (for the album) both earned him Grammy wins as well as Don't Look Back, which went on to earn him a double-Grammy win for Best Traditional Blues Recording and Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals (with Van Morrison).



Track List:
01 - Boom Boom (00:04:18)
02 - Serves Me Right To Suffer (00:04:19)
03 - You Know It Ain't Right (00:04:07)
04 - Hobo Blues (00:04:20)
05 - One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer (00:04:10)
06 - Whiskey And Women (00:05:40)
07 - Crawlin' King Snake (00:04:12)
08 - Boogie Chillen (00:09:03)
09 - You Know I Love (00:05:42)
10 - Maudie (00:04:10)
11 - Crazy 'Bout You Baby (00:04:44)

An FM broadcast (WXRT) live from Wise Fools Pub, Chicago, Illinois. November 9, 1976.

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