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John Lee Hooker was an American blues singer and guitarist who recorded from 1948 to 2001. His discography includes recordings issued by various record companies in different formats. His discography includes recordings issued by various record companies in different formats.
John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1912 [1] or 1917 [4] [5] – 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 that he developed in Detroit .
"Misery" is a song by Minneapolis rock band Soul Asylum, released as the lead single from their seventh studio album, Let Your Dim Light Shine (1995). The track was serviced to US alternative radio in May 1995 and was later issued as a commercial single.
The discography of American alternative rock band Soul Asylum consists of 12 studio albums, two live albums, five compilation albums, two extended plays (EPs), 22 singles, and 17 music videos. Formed in 1981 in Minneapolis , Minnesota using the name Loud Fast Rules, the band's original lineup consisted of vocalist Dave Pirner , guitarist Dan ...
John Lee Hooker Plays & Sings the Blues is an album by blues musician John Lee Hooker. which was issued by Chess Records in 1961. It compiles songs recorded in 1951 and 1952, some of which were originally released as singles.
The Ultimate Collection (1948–1990) is a 1991 compilation album by John Lee Hooker. In 2003, the album was rated 375 on the Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time", [ 4 ] and 377 in a 2012 revised list.
The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings said "Riverside required Hooker to play only acoustic guitar. What motivated this redirection, and in particular the 'classic blues' repertoire on the first album was a view of the blues - you might say a politics of the blues - very much of its time ... though, as always with Hooker the result is not exact commemoration so much as highly personalised ...
More Real Folk Blues: The Missing Album is a record by blues guitarist and singer John Lee Hooker that was recorded in Chicago in 1966 at the same sessions for The Real Folk Blues but not released by the Chess label until 1991. [1]