Canned Heat & John Lee Hooker

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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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  • barrospablito

    Perfect.

    last month

  • Lowbacca

    HELL YEEAHHH

    February 2012

  • KeiONN

    Hell yeah.

    July 2011

  • Ton87

    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.

    January 2011

  • Woutthefxck

    Is John just improvising? I'm wondering..

    January 2011

  • Woutthefxck

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

    January 2011

  • blissy10

    this music is beautiful.

    September 2010

  • sebastiano_riva

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

    January 2009
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