I'm a Boogie Man: The Essential Masters 1948-1953 [Original recording remastered]

I'm a Boogie Man: The Essential Masters 1948-1953 [Original recording remastered]

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In the wake of his 1949 R&B chart-topper "Boogie Chillen" for Los Angeles-based Modern Records, Detroit bluesman John Lee Hooker was hot as a firecracker and ready to record for any label willing to come up with sufficient cash. One of his first connections outside of Modern was with Cincinnati-based King Records in late 1948; under the auspices of his manager Elmer Barbee and Hastings Street record store operator Joe Von Battle (who had a small studio in the rear of his shop), Hooker cut a series of brilliant solo pieces that King issued as by the pseudonymous Texas Slim despite the fact that Hooker didn’t hail from the Lone Star state. I’m A Boogie Man collects those 16 classic (and domestically unavailable) performances, along with three stunning 1953 performances by Hooker for King’s DeLuxe imprint with Eddie Kirkland on second guitar that have somehow eluded reissue all these years until now ("My Baby Left Me" is totally unissued). This is prime Hooker at his earliest, rawest, and most hypnotic, when he was just commencing his unbelievably prolific and brilliant career as one of the greatest of all postwar blues icons.

I'm a Boogie Man: The Essential Masters 1948-1953, Music, John Lee Hooker, Acoustic Blues, Blues, Blues Traditional, Delta Blues, Detroit Blues, Electric Blues, Electric Delta Blues, Pop, United States of America

I'm a Boogie Man: The Essential Masters 1948-1953 [Original recording remastered]

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