The Very Best of John Lee Hooker

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Boom Boom
  2:30
  3.2 ★
• 2
  Dimples
  2:14
• 3
  I’m in the Mood
  2:41
  3.0 ★
• 4
  I’m So Excited
  2:54
• 5
  Hard Hearted Woman
  2:30
• 6
  Want Ad Blues
  2:21
• 7
  I Wanna Walk
  2:14
• 8
  Onions
  2:09
• 9
  Thelma
  3:32
• 10
  Send Me Your Pillow
  2:26
• 11
  Lost a Good Girl
  1:56
• 12
  House Rent Boogie
  4:01
• 13
  What Do You Say
  2:30
• 14
  Blues Before Sunrise
  3:50
• 15
  Process
  3:37
• 16
  Let’s Make It
  2:22
  1.0 ★
• 17
  I’m Leaving Baby
  2:11
• 18
  She’s Mine (Keep Your Hands to Yourself)
  2:21
• 19
  Baby Lee
  2:57
• 20
  I’m Goin’ Upstairs
  2:59
  3.0 ★
• CD 2
• 1
  Boogie Chillen
  3:09
  3.0 ★
• 2
  Crawling Kingsnake
  3:00
• 3
  Burnin’ Hell
  2:42
• 4
  Highway Blues
  3:02
• 5
  Whistlin’ and Moanin’ Blues
  3:07
• 6
  Hoogie Boogie
  2:56
• 7
  Do the Boogie
  3:12
• 8
  Goin’ Home Blues
  3:27
• 9
  Landing Blues
  3:26
• 10
  Twister Blues
  2:32
• 11
  Hastings Street Boogie
  2:20
• 12
  Miss Eloise
  2:41
• 13
  Sally Mae
  3:11
• 14
  Miss Rosie Mae
  3:02
• 15
  Hobo Blues
  3:02
• 16
  Build Myself a Cave
  2:57
• 17
  Alberta
  3:04
• 18
  Lowdown Midnight Boogie
  3:34
• 19
  Momma Poppa Boogie
  2:57
• 20
  Shady Grove Blues
  3:19
• 21
  Walkin’ the Boogie
  2:43
• 22
  Sugar Mama
  3:15
• 23
  Queen Bee
  2:35
• 24
  Dimples (alternate version)
  2:11

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12 grandes éxitos en versión original

12 grandes éxitos en versión original 1998

Don’t Look Back

Don’t Look Back 1997

The Best of Hooker ’n Heat

The Best of Hooker ’n Heat 1996

Alternative Boogie: Early Studio Recordings, 1948-1952

Alternative Boogie: Early Studio Recordings, 1948-1952 1995

Release credits

• Andrew “Mike” Terry
  baritone saxophone [14]
• Benny Benjamin
  drums (drum set) [1, 14]
• Bernard Besman
  producer [1]
• Calvin Carter
  producer [1, 13, 16]
• Eddie Burns
  guitar [3]
• Hank Crosby
  tenor saxophone [1]
• Henry Cosby
  tenor saxophone [14]
• James Jamerson
  bass [1], bass guitar [14]
• Joe Hunter
  piano [1, 14]
• John Lee Hooker
  guitar [1.1, 1.3, 1.14, 2.1, 2.17], lead vocals [1.3, 2.17], vocal [2.1, 1.1, 1.4, 1.8, 1.14]
• Larry Veeder
  guitar [14]
• Marshall Chess
  executive [3]
• Michael Heatley
  liner notes
• Ralph Bass
  producer [3]
• Ron Malo
  editor [3]
• [unknown]
  instrument [3]
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Issues

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  The Very Best of John Lee Hooker

  2x CD
  2009
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  T
  The Very Best of John Lee Hooker

  2x CD
  2009
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  The Very Best of John Lee Hooker

  2x CD
  2016