[商品番号 SJR-600871] [CD] [輸入盤] [24BIT DIGITALLY REMASTERED] [DOMINO RECORDS]

[収録作品]

01. Burning Hell 3:16
02. Graveyard Blues 3:37
03. Baby Please Don't Go 4:50
04. Jackson, Tennessee 3:19
05. You Live Your Life And I'll Live Mine 3:22
06. Smokestack Lightnin' 3:21
07. How You Can Do It? 2:58
08. I Don't Want No Woman If Her Hair Ain't No Longer Than Mine 3:16
09. I Rolled And Turned And Cried The Whole Night Long 3:48
10. Blues For My Baby 3:36
11. Key To The Highway 3:11
12. Natchez Fire 3:02

Bonus Tracks
13. Hobo Blues 2:49
14. Crawlin' King Snake 2:45
15. I Can't Believe 2:49
16. Worried Life Blues 3:04
17. Five Long Years 3:38
18. I Don't Want Your Money 3:04
19. Take Me As I Am 3:02
20. Tupelo (Live) 3:25

当時UK でリリースされた、オリジナルのアナログ盤 (Riverside RM-008)は超レア・アイテムとなっておりますが、それだけではなく、最もピュアなフッカーの “トーキング・ブルース”を聴くことができる名盤である。ボーナス・トラックも同じくソロ・レコーディング・セッションを中心にセレクトされている。

メンバー：
Tracks 1-12: Solo recordings by John Lee Hooker (vocals and acoustic guitar).
Recorded by Bill Hevron at United Sound Systems, Detroit, Michigan,April 20, 1959.
Produced by Bill Grauer.
Tracks 13 & 14: Recorded in Chicago, Illinois, January 22, 1959.
Track 15: Recorded in Chicago, Illinois, March 1960.
Tracks 16 & 18: Recorded in Detroit, Michigan, late 1952.
Tracks 17 & 19: Recorded in Chicago, Illinois, January 4, 1961.
Track 20: John Lee Hooker (vocals and guitar) plus Bill Lee (string bass).
Recorded live at the Newport Folk Festival, Newport, Rhode Island, June 25, 1960.