aka - Hooker & Hogs
Out of Print
$29 @ 'Zon
This was recorded in 1965 and released in 1972
Most everyone knows about the venerable Boogie Man's work with Bonnie Raitt, Carlos Santana, the Stones, Van Morrison, Canned Heat, and other admiring white rock musicians. Few Hooker fans, however, know of his well-received tours and sessions in England in the early '60s with guitarist Tony (T.S.) McPhee's Groundhogs, named after one of Hooker's repertory numbers at the time. As attested to by these digitally re-mastered mono recordings, Hooker and his young acolytes really hit it off, with the Detroit bluesman's alchemical mix of rhythmic urgency and unyielding anguish of tone over the respectful, bare-bones 'Hogs on "I Cover the Waterfront," "Little Dreamer," and nine more. Note: Four haphazardly recorded "bonus tracks" feature Hooker, solo or with unidentified sidemen. ~F. J. Hadley
Track List:
Bad luck and trouble
Don't be messing with my bread
I cover the waterfront
I'm losin' you
It's a crazy mixed up world
It's raining here
Lay down little dreamer
Little girl (go back to school)
Mai Lee
No one pleases me but you
Seven days and seven nights
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