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This 1971 collaboration between primal one-part-Delta/one-part-Detroit singer-guitarist John Lee Hooker and Southern California blues revivalists Canned Heat works in large part because all parties involved are a little off. Hooker, the most unsystematic of the major bluesmen of his generation, isn’t a good fit for disciplined players; rather, he requires sidemen who play by feel. In harp player-guitarist Alan Wilson, the Crawling King Snake found a particularly sympathetic foil; sadly, Wilson died shortly after these sessions were completed. Roughly divided into spare, gritty Delta exercises and full-on boogie stomps featuring the full band, Hooker ‘n’ Heat is surely one of Canned Heat’s crowning moments, which isn’t saying that much. But that it stands as a milestone in Hooker’s oeuvre is quite a statement indeed!

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1	Let's Make It	32
2	Whiskey and Wimmen'	30
3	Peavine	26
4	I Got My Eyes on You	17
5	Burning Hell	16
5	The Feelin' Is Gone	16
7	Messin' With the Hook	14
7	You Talk Too Much	14
7	Bottle Up and Go	14
10	Send Me Your Pillow	13
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11	Drifter	11
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KeiONN wrote:
July 2011

Hell yeah.

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Ton87 wrote:
January 2011

Sounds like he is indeed improvising a lot. Blues songs from Hooker's time usually had some sort of theme or recognizable melody, a particular chord progression and of course lyrics. Musicians improvised to accompany or to fill up the space in between the lines of lyrics. If you want to learn how to play a blues song, you don't need to know every note. You only need to know the basic melodies and how to improvise. That's probably why blues is very interesting music even though most blues is more or less the same, note-wise. It's obviously not about complex progressions but it's about how each musician has it's own style and way to get emotion into a song that has been covered a hundred times before.

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Woutthefxck wrote:
January 2011

Is John just improvising? I'm wondering..

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Woutthefxck wrote:
January 2011

Blues heaven, well said! :) No better description for that.

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blissy10 wrote:
September 2010

this music is beautiful.

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sebastiano_riva wrote:
January 2009

Great! Great! Really Great! Alan Wilson and John Lee Hooker are at TOP

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DJcheasy wrote:
October 2008

I'm German! Hooker Is a special Musik Player Singer... BoomBoom

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fergalmc wrote:
June 2008

you may .. I'm Irish! How wonderful is this .. Hooker can't loose the kid!

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necrorgasmique wrote:
March 2007

May I have a Guinness ?

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