Rockin' Wild 1952-1963... - Earl Hooker - Audio CD (Arrives in 50 days)

Earl Hooker was the “blues guitarists’ guitarist,” the most respected six-string wizard in Chicago blues musicians’ circles during the 1950s and ’60s. A cousin of John Lee Hooker and a protégé of slide guitar master Robert Nighthawk, Hooker was an endlessly inventive axeman who would likely have been a star had his modest vocal abilities matched his instrumental prowess and had he not suffered from chronic tuberculosis (which would lead to his death at the tender age of 41).

This collector's cd presents most of Hooker's finest efforts. It compiles 30 remastered tracks, including those sensational and hard-to-find sides he recorded for a varietyof labels between 1952 and 1963(such as Argo, King, Chief, Age and U.S.A. Records).

EARL HOOKER, electric guitar(and lead vocals on track 4), plus:

Junior Wells (vocals & harmonica), Jackie Brenston, Lillian Offitt (vocals) A.C. Reed (vocals & tenor sax), Julian Beasley (alto sax), Earnest Johnson (bass), Lafayette Leake, Pinetop Perkins (piano), Johnny “Big Moose” Walker (organ & piano), Bobby Little (drums), among others.

Recorded in Chicago, between 1952 and 1963.

Tracklist

1. Blue Guitar
2. Blues In D Natural
3. Rockin' Wild
4. Win the Dance
5. Rockin' With the Kid
6. Universal Rock [With Junior Wells]
7. Galloping Horses a Lazy Mule [With Junior Wells]
8. Calling All Blues [With Junior Wells]
9. Off the Hook
10. Frog Hop
11. Swear To Tell the Truth
12. Apache War Dance
13. This Little Voice
14. Nothing But Good [With Reggie Boyd]
15. The Bright Sound
16. That Man
17. Oh, Mama
18. You'd Better Be Sure
19. That Ain't Right
20. I Wanna Be Free
21. These Cotton Pickin' Blues
22. Crying Blues
23. I Stay Mad
24. Lotta Lovin'
25. Race Track
26. The Leading Brand
27. Want You To Rock Me [With Jackie Brenston]
28. Little By Little [With Junior Wells & Willie Dixon]
29. Don't You Ever Forget It
30. How Long Can This Go On

Label: Soul Jam | Origin: Holland

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