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Release Date: Jan 06, 2014
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Solo performer: John Lee Hooker (vocals, guitar).
Recorded at Hunter College, New York, New York. Includes liner notes by Robert Palmer.
Personnel: John Lee Hooker (vocals, guitar).
Liner Note Author: Kent Cooper.
Recording information: Hunter College, new ork City (02/06/1976).
Photographer: E. De Carvalho Filho.
ALONE is made up of songs taken from a pair of live sets recorded at New York City's Hunter College spread over two discs. As the title makes evident, this is John Lee Hooker stripped down to basics; just a voice and an acoustic guitar. Despite the apparent simplicity of this set-up, Hooker's musical approach went beyond the stereotypical image of a blues musician keeping time with his foot and stringing together colloquial non sequitirs. Instead, improvisation is the name of the game, which means that Hooker doesn't necessarily keep specific time. Instead, these rambling narratives are occasionally punctuated either by a stray chord or a few squeezed-off notes.
This technique works especially well on some of the deeper shadows within which the Hook walks. "Jesse James" gave the outlaw his due whereas "I'll Never Get Out Of These Blues Alive" reeks of the foreboding that Robert Johnson must have felt at the crossroads. Hooker does get to boogie, and lays down a nice groove on numbers such as "Boom Boom," "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" and "All Night Long."
Recorded at Hunter College, New York, New York. Includes liner notes by Robert Palmer.
Personnel: John Lee Hooker (vocals, guitar).
Liner Note Author: Kent Cooper.
Recording information: Hunter College, new ork City (02/06/1976).
Photographer: E. De Carvalho Filho.
ALONE is made up of songs taken from a pair of live sets recorded at New York City's Hunter College spread over two discs. As the title makes evident, this is John Lee Hooker stripped down to basics; just a voice and an acoustic guitar. Despite the apparent simplicity of this set-up, Hooker's musical approach went beyond the stereotypical image of a blues musician keeping time with his foot and stringing together colloquial non sequitirs. Instead, improvisation is the name of the game, which means that Hooker doesn't necessarily keep specific time. Instead, these rambling narratives are occasionally punctuated either by a stray chord or a few squeezed-off notes.
This technique works especially well on some of the deeper shadows within which the Hook walks. "Jesse James" gave the outlaw his due whereas "I'll Never Get Out Of These Blues Alive" reeks of the foreboding that Robert Johnson must have felt at the crossroads. Hooker does get to boogie, and lays down a nice groove on numbers such as "Boom Boom," "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" and "All Night Long."
Tracks:
Disc 1:
1 - I Miss You So
2 - Jesse James
3 - Dark Room
4 - I'll Never Get Out of These Blues Alive
5 - Boogie Chillum
6 - When My First Wife Left Me
7 - Boom Boom
8 - One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
Disc 2:
1 - Put Your Hand On Your Hip
2 - Trying To Survive
3 - I Won't Be Back No More
4 - She Left Me On My Bended Knee
5 - You Ain't Too Old To Shift Them Gears
6 - Hobo Blues
7 - I Wish You Could Change Your Ways
8 - Boogie Chillen
9 - Crawlin' King Snake
1 - I Miss You So
2 - Jesse James
3 - Dark Room
4 - I'll Never Get Out of These Blues Alive
5 - Boogie Chillum
6 - When My First Wife Left Me
7 - Boom Boom
8 - One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
Disc 2:
1 - Put Your Hand On Your Hip
2 - Trying To Survive
3 - I Won't Be Back No More
4 - She Left Me On My Bended Knee
5 - You Ain't Too Old To Shift Them Gears
6 - Hobo Blues
7 - I Wish You Could Change Your Ways
8 - Boogie Chillen
9 - Crawlin' King Snake