• 180-GRAM VINYL LP

• THE COMPLETE ALBUM + 2 BONUS TRACKS

• 4 STARS DOWN BEAT

Recorded in April 1959, Tupelo Blues was Hooker’s first LP packaged for the folk/traditional blues market, where the blues legend played nothing but the acoustic guitar, and sang straight to the bone with his soul drenched vocal delivery. The album was a key change from his earlier recordings, most of which had featured Hooker on an electric guitar with his trademark reverb and stomping foot.

This is an intimate session featuring standards such as “How Long Blues”, “Bottle Up and Go”, and his first recorded take of “Tupelo Blues”, one of his alltime classics.

PERSONNEL:

• JOHN LEE HOOKER - (vocals & acoustic guitar)

Recorded at United Sound Systems, Detroit, Michigan, April 1959.

• (*) BONUS TRACKS:
• John Lee Hooker (g, voc), Hank Cosby (ts), Andrew “Mike” Terry (bs), Joe Hunter (p), Larry Veeder (g), James Jamerson (b), Benny Benjamin (dr).
• Recorded in Chicago, November 1961.

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• 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
• A7 I’M PRISON BOUND
• A8 BOOM BOOM (*)

• SIDE B
• 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
• B7 BLUES BEFORE SUNRISE (*)