Blues. John Lee Hooker. The Healer.

Хоть на сайте и есть человек, который много знает про этого героя, но тему придется открыть мне...

Blues a healer, all over the world
Blues a healer, healer, all over the world, all over the world
It healed me, it can heal you
The blues can heal you, early one morning...

Born near Clarksdale, Mississippi on August 22, 1917 to a sharecropping family, John Lee Hooker's earliest musical influence came from his stepfather, Will Moore. By the early 1940's Hooker had moved north to Detroit by way of Memphis and Cincinnati. Hooker found work as a janitor in the auto factories, and at night, like many other transplants from the rural Delta, he entertained friends and neighbors by playing at "house parties". He was "discovered" by record storeowner Elmer Barbee who took him to Bernard Besman, who was a producer, record distributor and owner of Sensation Records, Besman leased some of his early Hooker recordings to Modern Records. Among Hooker's first recordings in 1948, "Boogie Chillen" became a number one jukebox hit for Modern and his first million seller. This was soon followed by an even bigger hit with "I'm In The Mood" and other classic recordings including "Crawling Kingsnake" and "Hobo Blues." Another surge in his career took place with the release of more than 100 songs on Vee Jay Records during the 1950's and 1960's.

When the young bohemian audiences of the 1960's "discovered" Hooker along with other blues originators, he and various he and others made a brief return to folk blues. Young British artist such as the Animals, John Mayall, and the Yardbirds introduced Hooker's sound to the new and eager audiences whose admiration and influence helped build Hooker to superstar status in the mid - 60's England. By 1970 he had moved to California and worked on several projects with rock musicians, notably Van Morrison and Canned Heat. Canned Heat modeled their sound after Hooker's boggie and collaborated with him on several albums and tours.

During the late 1970's and much of the 1980's, Hooker toured the U.S. and Europe steadily but grew disenchanted with recording, through his appearance in the Blues Brothers movie resulted in a heightened profile. Then, in 1989, The Healer was released to critical acclaim and sales in excess of a million copies. Today the "The King Of The Boggie" is enjoying the most successful period of his extensive career. In the past ten years Hooker's influence has contributed to a booming interest in the blues and, notably, its acceptance by the music industry as a commercially viable entity.

Hooker's career has been a series a highlights and special events since the release of The Healer. In addition to recording his on albums Mr. Lucky, Boom Boom, Chill Out, and Don't Look Back for Pointblank / Virgin, he contributed to recordings by B.B. King, Branford Marsalis, Van Morrison, and Big Head Todd and the Monsters and portrayed the title role in Pete Townshend's 1989 epic, The Iron Man.

His influence on younger generations has been documented on television with features on Showtime and a special edition of the BBC's 'Late Show' as well as appearances on "The Tonight Show" and "Late Night With David Letterman" among many others. John Lee was invited to perform The Rolling Stones and guest Eric Clapton for their national television broadcast during The Stones' 1989 Steel Wheels tour. In 1990, many musical greats paid tribute to John Lee Hooker with a performance at Madison Square Garden. Joining him on some or all of these special occasions were artists such as Bonnie Raitt, Ry Cooder, Joe Cocker, Huey Newton, Carlos Santana, Robert Clay, Mick Fleetwood, Al Cooper, Johnny Winter, John Hammond, and the late Albert Collins and Willie Dixon.

Hooker's 1991 induction into the Rock n' Roll Hall Of Fame was fitting for the man who has influenced countless fans and musicians who have in turn influenced many more. Honors continue, with recent inductions into Los Angeles' Rock Walk, The Bammies Walk Of Fame in San Francisco, and, in 1997, a star in the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.

John Lee's style has always been unique, even among other performers of the real deep blues, few of whom remain with us today. While retaining that foundation he has simultaneously broken new ground musically and commercially. At the age of 80, John Lee Hooker received his third and fourth Grammy Awards, for Best Traditional Blues Recording (Don't Look Back) and for Best Pop Collaboration for the song "Don't Look Back" which Hooker recorded with his long time friend Van Morrison. This Friendship and others are celebrated on Hooker's newest Pointblank / Virgin album, The Best Of Friends. The album also celebrates a return, exactly 50 years later, to Hooker's first hit, Boogie Chillen and serves as a perfect bookend for Hooker's first fifty years in the business

2SergeK:

А как похож-то!

John Lee Hooker's complete discography may never be compiled in one place. Original recordings number over 100 albums but re-releases, compilations, best ofs and unauthorized releases abound.

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Albums
1948-1954 - Original Folk Blues (released on United)
1959 - How Long Blues (released on United)
1959 - I'm John Lee Hooker (Vee Jay Records)
1959 - The Folk Blues of John Lee Hooker (Riverside)
1959 - Burning Hell (Riverside)
1960 - Travelin' (Vee Jay Records)
1960 - That's My Story (Riverside)
1960 - House Of The Blues
1960 - Blues Man
1960 - I'm John Lee Hooker
1961 - John Lee Hooker Sings The Blues
1961 - Plays And Sings The Blues
1961 - The Folk Lore of John Lee Hooker
1962 - Burnin'
1962 - Drifting the Blues
1962 - The Blues
1962 - Tupelo Blues
1963 - Don't Turn Me from Your Door: John Lee Hooker Sings His Blues
1964 - Burning Hell
1964 - Great Blues Sounds
1964 - I Want to Shout the Blues
1964 - The Big Soul of John Lee Hooker
1964 - The Great John Lee Hooker (Japan only)
1965 - Hooker & The Hogs
1966 - It Serves You Right to Suffer
1966 - The Real Folk Blues
1967 - Live at Cafè Au Go-Go
1968 - Hooked on Blues
1969 - Get Back Home
1969 - If You Miss'Im I Got'Im
1969 - Simply The Truth
1969 - That's Where It's At!
1969 - Get Back Home (First Issue)
1970 - If You Miss 'Im...I Got 'Im
1970 - John Lee Hooker on the Waterfront
1970 - Moanin' and Stompin' Blues
1971 - Endless Boogie
1971 - Goin' Down Highway 51
1971 - Half A Stranger
1971 - Hooker 'N' Heat/Infinite boogie
1971 - I Feel Good
1971 - Never Get Out Of These Blues Alive
1972 - Detroit Special
1972 - Live At Soledad Prison
1973 - Born In Mississippi, Raised Up In Tennessee
1974 - Free Beer And Chicken
1974 - Mad Man Blues
1976 - Alone
1976 - In Person
1977 - Black Snake
1977 - Dusty Road
1978 - The Cream
1979 - Sad And Lonesome
1980 - Everybody Rockin'
1980 - Sittin' Here Thinkin'
1981 - Hooker 'n' Heat (Recorded Live at the Fox Venice Theatre)
1986 - Jealous
1988 - Trouble Blues
1989 - Highway Of Blues
1989 - John Lee Hooker's 40th Anniversary Album
1989 - The Detroit Lion
1989 - The Healer
1990 - The Hot Spot (Featuring Miles Davis)
1990 - Don't You Remember Me
1991 - More Real Folk Blues: The Missing Album
1991 - Mr. Lucky
1992 - Boom Boom
1992 - This Is Hip
1992 - Urban Blues
1993 - Nothing But The Blues
1994 - King of the Boogie
1994 - Original Folk Blues...Plus
1994 - Dimples (Classic Blues)
1995 - Alternative Boogie: Early Studio Recordings, 1948-1952
1995 - Chill Out
1995 - Whiskey & Wimmen
1995 - Blues for Big Town
1996 - Moanin' the Blues (Eclipse)
1996 - Alone: The First Concert
1997 - Don't Look Back
1997 - Alone: The Second Concert
1998 - Black Man Blues
2000 - On Campus
2001 - Concert at Newport
2001 - The Cream (Re-issue)
2001 - The Real Blues: Live in Houston 1979
2002 - Live at Newport
2003 - Face to Face
2003 - Burning Hell (Our World)
2003 - Rock With Me
2004 - Jack O' Diamonds: The 1949 Recordings

Compilations
1974 - Mad Man Blues (Chess 1951-1966)
1987 - Don't Look Back
1989 - The Hook: 20 Years of Hits
1989 - The Boogie Chillen Man
1991 - Hobo Blues
1991 - The Chess Masters
1991 - The Complete Chess Folk Blues Sessions (The Real Folk Blues/More Real Folk Blues)
1991 - The Ultimate Collection 1948-1990
1992 - Best Of: 1965-1974
1992 - The Ultimate Collection (Universal)
1992 - The Vee-Jay Years, 1955 - 1964
1993 - Boom Boom (UK only)
1993 - Boogie Man
1993 - The Legendary Modern Recordings 1948-1954
1994 - Blues Collection (Boogie Man)
1994 - John Lee Hooker (LaserLight)
1994 - The Early Years
1994 - Wandering Blues
1995 - Red Blooded Blues
1995 - The Very Best Of
1996 - Blues Legend
1996 - Live at Cafe au Go-Go (and Soledad Prison)
1997 - His Best Chess Sides
1997 - Live In Concert
1997 - The Essential Collection
1998 - The Best of Friends
1998 - The Complete 50's Chess Recordings
1999 - Best of John Lee Hooker: 20th Century Masters
1999 - This Is Hip [The Best Of]
2000 - The Definitive Collection
2001 - Born With The Blues
2001 - Gold Collection
2001 - Legendary Blues Recordings: John Lee Hooker
2002 - Blues Before Sunrise
2002 - The Complete - Vol. 1 [Body & Soul]
2002 - The Complete - Vol. 2 [Body & Soul]
2002 - The Complete - Vol. 3 [Body & Soul]
2002 - The Complete - Vol. 4 [Body & Soul]
2002 - The Classic Early Years 1948-51 (UK, London's JSP Records,4CD's)
2002 - The Real Folk Blues/More Real Folk Blues
2002 - Timeless Collection
2003 - Blues Kingpins
2003 - Final Recordings, Vol. 1: Face to Face
2003 - The Collection 1948-52
2004 - Don't Look Back: Complete Blues
2004 - The Complete - Vol. 5 [Body & Soul]
2005 - The Complete - Vol. 6 [Body & Soul]
2005 - The Early Years - Vol. 1
2006 - Hooker (4CD Box-set covering his whole career)

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Biography
John Lee Hooker was born on 22 August 1917[2] in Coahoma County near Clarksdale, Mississippi, [1] the youngest of the eleven children of William Hooker (1871–1923), a sharecropper and a Baptist preacher, and Minnie Ramsey (1875-?). John and his numerous siblings were permitted to listen only to religious songs, with his earliest musical exposure being the spirituals sung in church. In 1921, his parents separated. The next year, his mother married William Moore, a blues singer who provided John's first introduction to the guitar (and whom John would later credit for his distinctive playing style).[3] The year after that (1923), John's natural father died; and at age 15, John ran away from home, never to see his mother and step-father again.[4]

Throughout the 1930s, Hooker lived in Memphis where he worked on Beale Street and occasionally performed at house parties.[1] He worked in factories in various cities during World War II, drifting until he found himself in Detroit in 1948 working at Ford Motor Company. He felt right at home near the blues venues and saloons on Hastings Street, the heart of black entertainment on Detroit's east side. In a city noted for its piano players, guitar players were scarce. Performing in Detroit clubs, his popularity grew quickly, and seeking a louder instrument than his crude acoustic guitar, he bought his first electric guitar.[5]

Hooker's recording career began in 1948 when his agent placed a demo tape, made by Hooker, with the Bihari brothers, owners of the Modern Records label. The company initially released an up-tempo number, "Boogie Chillen", which became Hooker's first hit single.[1]

Though they were not songwriters, the Biharis often purchased or claimed co-authorship of songs that appeared on their labels, thus securing songwriting royalties for themselves, in addition to their other streams of income .

Sometimes these songs were older tunes renamed (B.B.King's "Rock Me Baby"), anonymous jams ("B.B.'s Boogie") or songs by employees (bandleader Vince Weaver). The Biharis used a number of pseudonyms for songwriting credits: Jules was credited as Jules Taub; Joe as Joe Josea; and Sam as Sam Ling. One song by John Lee Hooker, "Down Child" is solely credited to "Taub", with Hooker recieving no credit for the song whatsoever. Another, "Turn Over a New Leaf" is credited to Hooker and "Ling".

Despite being illiterate, Hooker was a prolific lyricist. In addition to adapting the occasionally traditional blues lyric (such as "if I was chief of police, I would run her right out of town"), he freely invented many of his songs from scratch. Recording studios in the 1950s rarely paid black musicians more than a pittance, so Hooker would spend the night wandering from studio to studio, coming up with new songs or variations on his songs for each studio. Due to his recording contract, he would record these songs under obvious pseudonyms such as "John Lee Booker", "Johnny Hooker", or "John Cooker."[6]

His early solo songs were recorded under Bernie Besman. John Lee Hooker rarely played on a standard beat, changing tempo to fit the needs of the song. This made it nearly impossible to add backing tracks. As a result, Besman would record Hooker, in addition to playing guitar and singing, stomping along with the music on a wooden palette.[7]

He appeared and sang in the 1980 movie The Blues Brothers. Due to Hooker's improvisatory style, his performance was filmed and sound-recorded live at Chicago's Maxwell Street Market, in contrast to the usual "playback" technique used in most film musicals.[8] Hooker was also a direct influence in the look of John Belushi's character Jake Blues, borrowing his trademark sunglasses and soul patch.

In 1989, he joined with a number of musicians, including Keith Richards and Carlos Santana to record The Healer, which won a Grammy award — one of many awards. Hooker recorded several songs with Van Morrison, including "Never Get Out of These Blues Alive", "The Healing Game" and "I Cover the Waterfront". He also appeared on stage with Van Morrison several times, some of which was released on the live album A Night in San Francisco.

Hooker recorded over 100 albums. He lived the last years of his life in the San Francisco Bay Area, where, in 1997, he opened a nightclub called "John Lee Hooker's Boom Boom Room", after one of his hits.[9]

He fell ill just before a tour of Europe in 2001 and died soon afterwards at the age of 83. The last song Hooker recorded before his death, is "Ali D'Oro", a collaboration with the Italian soul singer Zucchero, in which Hooker sang the chorus "I lay down with an angel". He was survived by eight children, nineteen grandchildren, numerous great-grandchildren and a nephew.

Among his many awards, John Lee Hooker has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and in 1991 he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Two of his songs, "Boogie Chillen" and "Boom Boom" were named to the list of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. "Boogie Chillen" was included as one of the Songs of the Century. He was also inducted in 1980 into the Blues Hall of Fame. In 2000, Hooker was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

Music
John Lee Hooker's guitar playing is closely aligned with piano Boogie Woogie. He would play the walking bass pattern with his thumb, stopping to emphasize the end of a line with a series of trills, done by rapid hammer-ons and pull-offs. The songs that most epitomize his early sound are "Boogie Chillen", about being 17 and wanting to go out to dance at the Boogie clubs, "Baby Please Don't Go", a more typical blues song, summed up by its title, and "Tupelo", a stunningly sad song about the flooding of Tupelo, Mississippi.

He maintained a solo career, popular with blues and folk music fans of the early 1960s and crossed over to white audiences, giving an early opportunity to the young Bob Dylan. As he got older, he added more and more people to his band, changing his live show from simply Hooker with his guitar to a large band, with Hooker singing.

His vocal phrasing was less closely tied to specific bars than most blues singers'. This casual, rambling style had been gradually diminishing with the onset of electric blues bands from Chicago but, even when not playing solo, Hooker retained it in his sound.

Though Hooker lived in Detroit during most of his career, he is not associated with the Chicago-style blues prevalent in large northern cities, as much as he is with the southern rural blues styles, known as delta blues, country blues, folk blues, or "front porch blues". His use of an electric guitar tied together the Delta blues with the emerging post-war electric blues.[10]

His songs have been covered by The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Van Morrison, The Yardbirds, The Animals, R.L. Burnside, and The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. One of his later songs, "Harry's Philosophy", was heavily sampled by acid jazz DJ St. Germain for use on the song "Sure Thing", off St. Germain's album Tourist.

John Lee Hooker: Boom boom


John Lee Hooker & Bonnie Raitt - I'm in the mood


John Lee Hooker & Santana - The Healer


JOHN LEE HOOKER & FRIENDS


I'm Bad Like Jesse James (1991)


John Lee Hooker - Hobo Blues


ROLLING STONES, JOHN LEE HOOKER & CLAPTON - Boogie Chillin'

Ну... и не без этого.

Для меня Хукер - это и есть блюз... Та его вершина, до которой никому никогда не добраться. Вот моя любимая версия его Boom Boom из лучшего, на мой сугубо личный взгляд, блюзового фильма The Blues Brothers...

MUSIC

http://musicmp3.spb.ru/mp3/7/john_lee_hooker.htm

ой...

неужели это кому-нидь здеся нуна?
Интереснее, наверное, услышать личные мнения о творчестве...
А так, можно, вероятно, было просто ссылочки скинуть гуртом и полный бум-бум был бы... а так...
неужели это кому-нидь здеся нуна?
(и так по кругу, по михаилу)

шоп скучно не было слушать,
смотрите визуальный ряд.
На злобу: дня "Бум-бум-бум-бум"

А это песня о главном.
Ну низзя без неё никак.
Tupelo blues.
Вопщем, жызненная...

Jealous
Release Date: 7/17/2007

Jealous, recorded in 1982 but not released until 1986, put Hooker on the comeback trail that culminated in the 1989 GRAMMY-winner The Healer. In contrast to the parade of guest stars who grace most of his late-period career album, Jealous is a down-and-dirty effort from Hooker's seasoned tour band. Despite its humble origins, it was nominated for a GRAMMY, won a W.C. Handy Award, and remains a vital work from a genuine blues master.

1 Jealous
2 Ninety Days
3 Early One Morning
4 When My First Wife Left Me
5 Boogie Woman
6 Well Well
7 I Didn't Know
8 We'll Meet Again
9 Worried Life Blues
10 Ninety Days Reprise
11 BONUS - Lonely Man
12 BONUS - Decoration Day

Don't Look Back
Release Date: 7/17/2007

Don't Look Back, originally released in 1997, was co-produced by Van Morrison, who also duets with Hooker on four tracks. The album contains newly recorded versions of Hooker classics, as well as some new songs and two bonus tracks. Los Lobos appear on a storming version of “Dimples,” and Hooker takes on Hendrix with a cover of “Red House.” The album won two GRAMMY Awards: Best Traditional Blues Album and Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals for the title track, with Van Morrison.

1 Dimples
2 The Healing Game
3 Ain't No Big Thing
4 Don't Look Back
5 Blues Before Sunrise
6 Spellbound
7 Travellin' Blues
8 I Love You Honey
9 Frisco Blues
10 Red House
11 Rainy Day
12 BONUS - Send Me Your Pillow
13 BONUS - Blues Before Sunrise

Кому интересно:

выложил чуточку видеораритетов:

John Lee Hooker feat. Robert Cray - Mr.Lucky (1991)


Из коллекции Yazoo Rec
John Lee Hooker - Boom Boom (Masters of the Country Blues)


John Lee Hooker & Lady Bianca -- Boogie Woman (live)

Кстати, отсутствие 2х знаменитых дисков объяснили тем, что ждут ремастированных, а старые закончились.

Ну, и супер экслюзив:

Одно из последних появлении на публике. На сцене можно увидеть и дочь-хранительницу, и сына-раздолбая:


John Lee Hooker & Charlie Brechtel

2SergeK:

>Кстати, отсутствие 2х знаменитых дисков объяснили
>тем, что ждут ремастированных, а старые закончились.

забавно, шо смели и сдвоенный бокс бумбум , и переизданный без бонусов хилер с альтернативной обложкой.
Чёта непонятное творицца в датском королефстве

2john lee hooker:
Вот Хилера и Лаки нет как рассс! :)

Ещё один масенький эксклюзивчик от "хукера":

Джон Ли + Майлз Дэйвис + Тадж Махал + Рой Раджерс = Горячее Местечко

Секс никогда не бывает безопасным

John Lee Hooker & Miles Davis - Harry & Dolly (1990)

2SergeK:

>2john lee hooker:
>Вот Хилера и Лаки нет как рассс! :)
м.б. скинуть?
кста, как Джелоуз, переварился?

94 года назад родился Джон Ли Хукер (John Lee Hooker)

Проверял свои ютубовские лайки (ставлю в основном там где хочу сохранить для себя возможность вернуться к видео).
Далеко эти два видео улетели под кат. А я ещё не полностью ими насытился. Пусть будут здесь, в быстром доступе.

По первой ссылке кстати отчетливо видно (слышно) те ходы которые потом можно услышать у Хендрикса в концертных версиях "Рэд Хаус". Можно даже сказать 1 в 1.
Это к вопросу о влиянии (была такая тема на форуме). Хукер с его кантри-хилл, дельта стилем однозначно повлиял на Хендрикса. И Хукер и Хендрикс могут одной гитарой быть самодостаточными - насытить музыкальную ткань разнообразными партиями.
А от Б.Б.Кинга влияния на Джими с размером с титьку тараканью. Потому что стиль Кинга - буржуазный блюз, когда негры для тебя всю дорогу делают основную работу, а ты сидишь и в нужный момент выпускаешь пару нот соло и снимаешь сливки.
Но это разумеется слышно тем кто в теме.

Короче ранний Хукер это просто прекрасно.

Early John Lee Hooker


John Lee Hooker 1969 PBS