John Lee Hooker – Boogie Chillun

•    John Lee Hooker is best known for his electric guitar-style adaptation of the Delta blues

•    Songs include Crawling King Snake, Dimples, Boom Boom, Boogie Chillun and others

•    Boogie Chillun brings you some of the guitar great’s best known songs and is a great addition to any music enthusiast’s collection

John Lee Hooker was beloved worldwide as the king of the endless boogie, a genuine blues superstar whose droning, hypnotic one-chord grooves were at once both ultra-primitive and timeless. But he recorded in a great many more styles than that over a career that stretched across more than half a century.

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 boogie-woogie.

Some of his best known songs include “Boogie Chillen'” (1948), “Crawling King Snake” (1949), “Dimples” (1956), “Boom Boom” (1962), and “One Bourbon, 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 U.K. 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).

TRACKLISTING
I’m Going Upstairs
Boom Boom
I’m In The Mood
Dimples
I’m Mad Again
Baby Lee
Boogie Chillun
Let’s Make It
Bottle Up And Go
Unfriendly Woman
Hard Headed Woman
Crawlin’ Kingsnake