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Reel-to-reel: JOHN LEE HOOKER - NEVER GET OUT OF THESE BLUES ALIVE 4-track reel to reel tape
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3.75 IPS 4-TRACK REEL TAPE
ABC RECORDS F 0022-736:
JOHN LEE HOOKER - NEVER GET OUT OF THESE BLUES ALIVE
John Lee Hooker is No. 2 on my list of Best Bluesmen, Muddy Waters is No. 1.
I was lucky enough to see John Lee Hooker perform a couple of times, once at the San Francisco Blues Festival and once at the Boom Boom Room on Fillmore St.
Contrary to common knowledge, that bar was not owned by Hooker, not even partly, the owner only uses his name to promote the joint... but John Lee Hooker did play there once in a while.
By 1972 John Lee Hooker had been recognized as what he was, a one-of-a-kind blues musician, completely original and brilliant. The participation of the top notch studio musicians and young rockers who back up Mr. Hooker on this excellent album is a tribute to a master, and they guaranteed ABC Records would make sure every effort was put forth to make it worthy of him.
The sound quality, unlike many of Mr. Hooker’s earlier recordings, is downright excellent, there’s nothing at all to criticize. Both sides of this 3.75 ips 4-track reel tape play perfectly from beginning to end. I heard no glitches of any sort.
A new long leader was spliced onto the start end of this tape.
The tape still looks fresh; it’s flat, shiny and supple, and packed flat on the original reel.
Please see the photos to check the condition of the box and reel.
Never Get Out of These Blues Alive is a studio album by American blues musician John Lee Hooker , released in 1972 by ABC Records and recorded from September 28 through September 29, 1971. The album features Van Morrison, Elvin Bishop, Charlie Musselwhite, and Steve Miller .
All songs written by Hooker, except noted.
- "Bumble Bee Blues" – 4:12
- "Hit the Road" – 2:57
- "Country Boy – 6:59
- "Boogie with the Hook" – 6:32
- "If You'll Take Care of Me, I'll Take Care of You" – 3:42
- "(I Got) A Good 'Un" – 3:26
- “T.B. Sheets" (Hooker, Van Morrison) – 4:58
- Ron Beck – drums
- Baker Bigsby – mixing
- Elvin Bishop – slide guitar
- Mel Brown – guitar, bass guitar
- Clifford Coulter – electric piano
- Chuck Crimelli – drums
- John Lee Hooker – guitar, Vocals
- Robert Hooker – organ, electric piano
- Earl Hooker – guitar
- Ken Hopkins – engineer
- John Kahn – bass guitar
- Ray MacCarty – guitar
- Philip Melnick – cover design, photography
- Ed Michel – production
- Steven Miller – organ
- Van Morrison – composer, guitar, vocals
- Charlie Musselwhite – harmonica
- Mark Naftalin – piano
- Benny Rowe – slide guitar
- Gino Skaggs – drums, bass guitar
- Rick Stanley – assistant Engineer
- Ken Swank – drums
- Luther Tucker – guitar
- Michael White – violin
- Paul Wood – guitar
John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1912 or 1917 – 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. Hooker often incorporated other elements, including talking blues and early North Mississippi Hill country blues. He developed his own driving-rhythm boogie style, distinct from the 1930s–1940s piano-derived boofie-woogie. Hooker was ranked 35 in Rolling Stone 's 2015 list of 100 greatest guitarists.
Some of his best known songs include “Boogie Chillen'" (1948), “Crawling King Snake" (1949), “Dimples" (1956), “Boom Boom" (1962), and “One Boubon, One Scotch, One Beer" (1966). Several of his later albums, including The Healer (1989), Mr. Lucky (1991), Chill Out (1995), and Don’t Look Back (1997), were album chart successes in the U.S. and UK. The Healer (for the song "I'm In The Mood") and Chill Out (for the album) both earned him Grammy wins as well as Don't Look Back, which went on to earn him a double-Grammy win for Best Traditional Blues Recording and Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals (with Van Morrison).
Hooker was working as janitor in a Detroit steel mill when his recording career began in 1948, when Modern Records, based in Los Angeles, released a demo he had recorded for Bernie Besman in Detroit. The single, “Boogie Chillen", became a hit and the best-selling race record of 1949. Despite being illiterate, Hooker was a prolific lyricist. In addition to adapting traditional blues lyrics, he composed original songs. In the 1950s, like many black musicians, Hooker earned little from record sales, and so he often recorded variations of his songs for different studios for an up-front fee. To evade his recording contract, he used various pseudonyms, including John Lee Booker (for Chess Records and Chance Records in 1951–1952), Johnny Lee (for De Luxe Records in 1953–1954), John Lee, John Lee Cooker, Texas Slim, Delta John, Birmingham Sam and his Magic Guitar, Johnny Williams, and the Boogie Man.
His early solo songs were recorded by Bernie Besman. Hooker rarely played with a standard beat, but instead he changed tempo to fit the needs of the song. This often made it difficult to use backing musicians, who were not accustomed to Hooker's musical vagaries. As a result, Besman recorded Hooker playing guitar, singing and stomping on a wooden pallet in time with the music.
For much of this period he recorded and toured with Eddie Kirkland. In Hooker's later sessions for Vee-Jay Records in Chicago, studio musicians accompanied him on most of his recordings, including Eddie Taylor, who could handle his musical idiosyncrasies. “Boom Boom" (1962) and “Dimples", two popular songs by Hooker, were originally released by Vee-Jay.
Beginning in 1962, Hooker gained greater exposure when he toured Europe in the annual American Folk Blues Festival. His "Dimples" became a successful single on the UK Singles Charts in 1964, eight years after its first US release. Hooker began to perform and record with rock musicians. One of his earliest collaborations was with British blues rock band the Groundhogs. In 1970, he recorded the joint album Hooker ’n Heat, with the American blues group Canned Heat, whose repertoire included adaptations of Hooker songs. It became the first of Hooker's albums to reach the Billboard charts, peaking at number 78 on the Billboard 200. Other collaboration albums soon followed, including Endless Boogie (1971) and Never Get Out of These Blues Alive (1972), which included Steve Miller, Elvin Bishop, Van Morrison, and others.
Hooker appeared in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers. He performed "Boom Boom" in the role of a street musician. In 1989, he recorded the album The Healer with Carlos Santana, Bonnie Raitt, and others. The 1990s saw additional collaboration albums: Mr. Lucky (1991), Chill Out(1995), and Don’t Look Back (1997) with Morrison, Santana, Los Lobos, and additional guest musicians. His re-recording of "Boom Boom" (the title track for his 1992 album) with guitarist Jimmie Vaughan became Hooker's highest charting single (number 16) in the UK. Come See About Me, a 2004 DVD, includes performances filmed between 1960 and 1994 and interviews with several of the musicians.
Hooker owned five houses in his later life, including houses located in Los Altos, California; Redwood City, California, Long Beach, California, and Gilroy, California.
Hooker died in his sleep on June 21, 2001, at his home in Los Altos, California. He is interred at the Chapel of the Chimes in Oakland, California. He was survived by eight children, 19 grandchildren, and numerous great-grandchildren.
On June 25, 2019, The New York Times Magazine listed John Lee Hooker among hundreds of artists whose recordings were reportedly destroyed in the 2008 Universal fire.
Among his many awards, Hooker was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1980, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991. He was a recipient of a 1983 National Heritage Fellowship awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts, which is the United States government's highest honor in the folk and traditional arts. He was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000 and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He is also inducted into the Mississippi Musicians Hall of Fame.
Two of his songs, "Boogie Chillen" and "Boom Boom", are included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's list of the 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll. "Boogie Chillen" is also included in the RIAA's's list of the “Songs of the Century".
In 2007, John Lee Hooker was voted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame.