John Lee Hooker

A really unique album from the great John Lee Hooker – done for the mostly-soul Wand Records label, and with a feel that's quite different than some of Hooker's other records!

There's a distinctly jazzy undercurrent running through the record at times – sometimes with some moody, soulful elements bubbling underneath John's lead vocals and guitar on the mellow tracks – or at other times with a fuller sense of arrangements, a bit like you might find on 60s work on the Duke/Peacock label blues sessions.

Hooker's in fine form throughout – and seems to open up nicely in the setting – and a few tracks are a bit more stripped-down, with a slightly rootsy feel.

TRACKS:

• SIDE A
• A1. Don't Want Nobody Else
• A2. Storming On The Deep Blue Sea
• A3. Losing You
• A4. Go Back To School Little Girl
• A5. Don't Be Messin' With My Bread
• A6. Mai Lee

• SIDE B
• B1. I Cover The Waterfront
• B2. Crazy Mixed Up World
• B3. Seven Days
• B4. Little Dreamer
• B5. Lost Everything