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JOHN LEE HOOKER

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Note: If you are interested in starting a John Lee Hooker CD collection
- don't start with the CDs imaged here - but do check: The Essential CDs | Ultimate CD Collection

"Boom Boom" on Pazzazz with 18 Vee-jay tracks. "Dusty Road" 2 CD on Pazzazz with 36 Vee-Jay tracks. "I'm In The Mood" on Pazzazz with 18 Vee-Jay tracks.
One 2-cet plus two 1-set CDs on Pazzazz issued 2004 (several tracks appear twice in this series).

"The Classic Early Years 1948-1951" 4CD-set with Modern and pirate recordings.
Vol A Vol B Vol C Vol D
A 4 CD-set on JSP with 100 tracks covering 1948-1951 (public domain).
"The Classic Early Years"

"The John Lee Hooker Story" (French CD containing 20 MCA/ABC tracks). JLH on members Edition of 2002 with 22 tracks from Vee-jay and King invluding two alternate instrumental versions of "Dimples". Dejavue Retro with 20 page booklet - R2CD4007 "Legend" on Music Club with 24 great Vee-Jay tracks. 3-CD-set John Lee Hooker Classics with unknown number of tracks on Allegro (issued 2001).
Above: The first with 20 ABC/MCA tracks; the second including a couple of "Dimples" alternates? (I wonder?),
"Gold Collection" with 40 Vee-Jay and Modern tracks; and a Music Club CD titled "Legend" wiht 24 VJ tracks, plus an unknown 3cd set and an Allegro VJ-set.
Front of 2-set CD Body & Soul "The Complete John Lee Hooker - Vol 3 Detroit 1949-1959" Back cover of 2-set Body & Soul CD "Complete JLH vol 3".
The Body & Soul 2-set "Complete" series.
"Blues Masters" on Delta with 10 Modern tracks. "36 Blues Masterpieces" on Solid Gold (2CD with Vee-Jay tracks). "Blues Biography" with 19 Modern and Vee-Jay tracks.
"The Boogie Man" - another new issue after his death - this time from Cultur Press - the old Charly team (featuring 25 Besman and Battle tracks from 1948-1949). "The Best of - Vol 1" in Liquid8 with 10 Vee-Jat tracks. "Burning Hell" on Our World with 16 Besman/Modern and Chess tracks. "Down Home Blues" 17 Chess tracks (1951-54)
"John Lee Hooker" on Platinum Disc with ten ealry King-tracks. "Bluesman: Collectors Edition" on Fuel2000 with 21 Hooker (seems like mostly Vee-Jay) plus 6 Lightnin´ Hopkins tracks. "The Essential" - well certainly not! (15 Vee-Jay tracks) "Hooker's Blues" with ten Modern tracks - bootleg.
French bootleg with 12 Vee-Jay tracks. French bootleg with 13 tracks from diff. labels. "The Best of" on Tomato with 14 Vee-Jat tracks. "The EP Collection - plus" with 24 Chess titles. The first new Hooker compilation issued after his death: "John Lee Hooker is hip - His Greatest Hits" (on MusicClub). "Low Down Midnite Boogie" a regular Savoy Jazz issue of 2004 with 14 Elmer Barbee productions. "House Rent Boogie" on Charly CD with 22 Vee-Jay tracks. "The Ultimate Collection" on MCA/Universal with 12 classic ABC tracks. "The Collection 1948-52" with 14 United Artists tracks issued in 2003 (Besman-recordings). "Rock With Me" - issued in 2003 - featuring 11 French recordings (Jewel/Carson). "Classic American Voices" on Direct Source with 16 Vee-Jay tracks. "Special Early Works" on Grammercy with 12 late Modern recordings.

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John Lee Hooker - Anthology 3 CD Collection.

John Lee Hooker - Anthology
3CD Collection (UK bootleg)
- with tracks from Modern, Vee-Jay & Chess.

CD 1 01 - DIMPLES 02 - MAUDIE 03 - SHAKE HOLLER AND RUN 04 - HOBO BLUES 05 - CRAWLING KING SNAKE 06 - WANT-AD BLUES 07 - I'M IN THE MOOD 08 - WHISKEY AND WIMMEN 09 - COOL LITTLE CAR 10 - GONNA BOOGIE 11 - RIDE TILL I DIE 12 - WEDNESDAY EVENING BLUES 13 - ROCK HOUSE BOOGIE 14 - NO SHOES 15 - HALF A STRANGER 16 - MY FIRST WIFE LEFT ME 17 - I LOVE YOU HONEY 18 - TIME IS MARCHING 19 - BLUES BEFORE SUNRISE 20 - BOOM BOOM

CD 2 01 - BOOGIE CHILLUN 02 - LOUISE 03 - GROUND HOG BLUES 04 - RAMBLIN' BY MYSELF 05 - SUGAR MAMA 06 - LOVE BLUES 07 - STELLA MAE 08 - UNFRIENDLY WOMAN 09 - I'M SO WORRIED BABY 10 - TROUBLE BLUES 11 - EVERYBODY ROCKIN' 12 - I'M SO EXCITED 13 - LITTLE FINE WOMAN 14 - YOU'VE TAKEN MY WOMAN 15 - HOUSE RENT BOOGIE 16 - I'M MAD AGAIN 17 - HARD HEARTED WOMAN 18 - I WANNA WALK 19 - RUN ON 20 - MAMBO CHILLUN

CD 3 01 - LITTLE WHEEL 02 - TUPELO 03 - HIGH PRICED WOMAN 04 - UNION STATION BLUES 05 - LEAVE MY WIFE ALONE 06 - WALKIN' THE BOOGIE 07 - DOWN AT THE LANDING 08 - IT'S MY OWN FAULT DARLING 09 - WOMEN AND MONEY 10 - PEACE LOVING MAN 11 - LET'S GO OUT TONIGHT 12 - I PUT MY TRUST IN YOU 13 - ONE BOURBON, ONE SCOTCH, ONE BEER 14 - YOU KNOW, I KNOW 15 - I'LL NEVER TRUST LOVE AGAIN 16 - THE WATERFRONT 17 - BABY LEE 18 - THE ROAD IS SO ROUGH 19 - MAMA YOU'VE GOT A DAUGHTER 20 - ONIONS

"I´m Ready" containing 9 Modern and 1 Vee-Jay track. "Too Much Boogie" with 10 Modern tracks. "Shake, Holler And Run" with 10 Modern tracks. "The Essential Collection" with 20 Chess and ABC tracks.
A rare JLH CD with Modern material, titled "King Of Boogie". "The Best of JLH" on EMI-Capitol (10 Modern tracks). A double-CD containing Vee-Jay and Modern tracks (on LaserLight). "The Best of John Lee Hooker" (VeeJay titles) - well it´s really not the only one titled that - this one covers 20 tracks (GNP).
"The Wonderful Music of JLH" on NCD (unknown tracks). "Nothing But The Blues" with French recordings. A Hooker CD containing Vee-Jay material on Comet. "Hig Profile" - containing ten Vee-Jay tracks.
One of several Chess compilations - this one titled "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer". One of several albums with VeeJay tracks. "Golden Hits" with 20 VJ tracks (2CD). Hooker´s "Most Famous Hits - The Album" with famous VeeJay tracks.
CD on Profie with ten Vee-Jay tracks. "The Healer" reissued. "The Definitive Collection" (although it is not) featuring 24 still great Vee-Jay tracks.

A "public-domain" CD featuring early Modern and King tracks. Collectables CD "In Person" with1964 Vee-Jay recordings. "The World of Blues" on MCA featuring 20 Chess/ABC sides.
"The best of.." with 19 ABC and Chess tracks. "The Masters" on Eagle CD. "That´s My Story" on Blues Classics with the Riverside tracks. "The Essential Recordings" CD. John Lee Hooker on "American Voices" - 16 bootleg Vee-Jay.

"Blues is the Healer" 10 CD bootleg.
A German 20 CD-box on Documents 222916
(probably a reissue of the box below)

JOHN LEE HOOKER: "PORTRAIT" 10 CD BOX,
RELESED IN GERMANY BY TRUMPETS OF JERICHO. CONTAINS A 40-PAGE BOOKLET. BOOTLEG.
Past Perfect 205566-202 - 205575-20s (Germany)
"Portraits"
TRACKS LIST:
1. Leavin' Chicago 2. Wednesday evening blues 3. My first wife left me (the VeeJay recdording) 4. Sally Mae 5. War is over (goodbye California) 6. She was in Chicago 7. Boogie chillen 8. Henry's swing club 9. Stomp boogie 10. Who's been jiving you 11. Black man blues 12. Shake your boogie 13. Poor Slim 14. Mercy blues 15. Boogie woogie 16. Helpless blues 17. Good business 18. Goin' mad blues 19. Morning blues 20. Boogie awhile 21. Tuesday evening blues 22. Weeping willow boogie 23. Hobo blues 24. Miss Lorraine 25. Do the boogie 26. Do the boogie (alt) 27. 609 boogie 28. Road trouble 29. Christmas time blues 30. Drifting from door to door 31. Hobo blues 32. Howlin' Wolf 33. Crawling kingsnake 34. Alberta 35. Wayne County ramblin' blues 36. Talkin' boogie 37. I love to boogie 38. Graveyard blues 39. Must I wait till your man has gone 40. Cotton pickin' boogie 41. Hoogie boogie 42. Hucke up baby 43. Whistlin' and moanin' blues 44. Momma poppa boogie 45. Burning hell 46. Sailing blues 47. Black cat blues 48. Miss Rosie Mae 49. Highway blues 50. Don't go baby 51. The numbers 52. Weeping willow blues 53. Forgive me 54. Howlin' wolf 55. Playing the races 56. Wednesday evening 57. Let your daddy ride 58. Queen bee 59. I'm in the mood 60. Tease me baby 61. Turn over a new leaf 62. Women in my life 63. House rent boogie 64. Wandering blues 65. Questionnaire blues 66. Real gone gal 67. Feed her all night 68. My daddy was a jockey 69. Little boy blues 70. How long myst I be your slave 71. Ground hog 72. Mean old train 73. Catfish 74. Do my baby think of me 75. Three long year's ago 76. Strike blues 77. Grinder man 78. Walkin' this highway 79. Four women in my life 80. I need lovin' 81. Find me a woman 82. Mad man blues 83. Hey boogie 84. Louise 85. High priced woman 86. Union station blues 87. Ground hog blues 88. Leave my wife alone 89. Ramblinb' by myself 90. Dreamin' blues 91. Just me and my telephone 92. Walkin' the boogie 93. Sugar mama 94. Please don't go 95. I don't want your money 96. Hey baby 97. Bluebird 98. Walkin' the boogie 99. Love blues 100. Lonely boy boogie 101. Apologize 102. The journey 103. Worried life blues 104. Down at the landing 105. You hve two hearts 106. Blues for big town 107. Women and money 108. Rock house boogie 109. Too much boogie 110. Need somebody 111. Please take me back 112. Gotta boggie 113. Stuttering blues 114. Pouring down rain 115. Love my baby 116. Misbelieving baby 117. Wobbling baby 118. Goin' south 119. My baby don't love me 120. I ain't got nobody 121. Real real gone 122. Guitar lovin' man 123. Blue Monday 124. My baby put me down 125. Boom boom 126. I want to hug you 127. House rent boogie 128. Wand ad blues 129. I'm so excited 130. Hard headed woman 131. I wanna walk 132. Onions 133. What do you say 134. Keep your hand to yourself 135. Send me your pillow 136. She shot me down 137. I want to shout 138. I'm leaving 139. Baby baby 140. I feel good 141. Going home 142. We are cooking 132. Looking back over my day 144. Dazie Mae 145. Stand back 146. Call it the night 147. Roll and rumble 148. Bottle of wine. 149. Baby don't do me wrong.

Asking you visitors: Does anyone know anything on the marked title above?
It is not included in the discography on next page!
CDs one to eight contain recordings seemingly put togehter at random in roughly the order they were recorded starting with 1948 and concluding with 1953. CD nine is a random selection of VeeJay sides and CD ten has eleven of the twelve sides that Hooker recorded in Paris in November 1969. Sound quality apart from sides that were noisy to start with, is pretty good. So if you dont want to buy the Body & Soul complete sets and fancy an overlook of vintage Hooker this is a pretty good place to start.
(Phil Wright - "Blues & Rhythm")

"The Great JLH" - CD containing 14 Vee-Jay tracks. "Hobo Blues" CD with 14 Vee-Jay tracks. "The Best of John lee Hooker" 2-set CD with Vee-Jay tracks. "Boom Boom" bootleg covering 20 Vee-Jay, Modern and Chess tracks.
French "Legend" 2-CD bootleg with 44 tracks on Next Muisc (Modern, Chess, VeeJay and more). "Plays The Blues" on Universe (italy) with 14 Chess recordings. "Boom Boom" on Syncrony - 14 VJ tracks. "Boom Boom & Other Classics" on Masters Intercontinental with 10 VJ tracks.
"John Lee Hooker" on Platinum with 10 King tracks. "Boom Boom#" on Past perfect with 19 Vee-Jay and Specialty 1954 tracks (incl I' m Mad). "John Lee Hooker" on Double Play with 20 VJ tracks. "Hoked on The Blues" bootleg with 13 VJ tracks.
"Legendary Blues Recordings" with 12 King tracks. "The Best of Canned Heat & John Lee Hooker" on Disky with 10 of the Liberty recordings of 1970. "Bogie Chillen" on Past Perfect with 17 early Besman tracks. "Boom Boom" on Prestige Elite with 16 VJ tracks.

One of several Chess-material albums. "Dimples" -best of CD on Charly. "Alone" with 8 live titles of the 70s. "Boom Boom" with 16 Vee-Jay titles. "The Healer".
The Best of John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom (with 24 VeeJay & Chess tracks). John Lee Hooker. Hooked on the Blues. A Mess of Blues - The John lee Hooker Collection (a 2-set CD but still containg only 20 VeeJay tracks). A rare CD "The Boss" - but feaguring familiar tracks.
"Boogie Chillun" on Fantasy. "Rising Sun Collectionn" with 6 rare live recordings of 1977 on JustAMemory label. "Hooker & The Hogs", containing 11 tracks with the Groundhogs of 1964 - plus 4 early King tracks. "Sad And Lonesome" - the reissue of Hookers 1961 Savoy recordings with "When My Wife Quite Me" added (Muse).
"The Very best of - Boom Boom", Cleopatra´s 20 tracks album. "Trouble Blues " on Prime Cuts (10 Vee-Jay tracks). "Electric" (16 Vee-Jay tracks).