The Very Best of John Lee Hooker

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Mambo Chillun
  2:48
• 2
  Time Is Marchin'
  3:03
  3.0 ★
• 3
  Dimples
  2:12
• 4
  Every Night
  3:00
• 5
  Baby Lee
  3:00
• 6
  Crawlin' Black Spider
  2:45
• 7
  I'm So Excited
  2:55
• 8
  Mama, You Got a Daughter
  2:39
• 9
  I Love You Honey
  2:35
• 10
  House Rent Blues
  4:03
• 11
  Trying to Find a Woman
  3:39
• 12
  Maudie
  2:25
• 13
  I'm in the Mood
  2:44
• 14
  Boogie Chillun
  2:37
• 15
  Hobo Blues
  2:49
• 16
  Crawlin' Kingsnake
  2:46
• 17
  Dusty Road
  2:21
• 18
  No Shoes
  2:25
• 19
  My First Wife Left Me
  3:34
• 20
  Moanin' Blues
  3:14
• CD 2
• 1
  Dirty Ground Hog
  3:32
• 2
  Hobo Blues (a.k.a. The Hobo) (live)
  3:04
• 3
  Tupelo (live)
  4:06
• 4
  I'm Going Upstairs
  2:55
• 5
  I'm Mad Again
  2:40
• 6
  Want Ad Blues
  2:15
• 7
  What Do You Say
  2:30
• 8
  Boom Boom
  2:30
  3.3 ★
• 9
  She's Mine
  2:20
• 10
  Drug Store Woman
  2:45
• 11
  You Know I Love You
  1:56
• 12
  Send Me Your Pillow
  2:25
• 13
  Don't Look Back
  2:55
• 14
  One Way Ticket
  3:29
• 15
  Bottle Up and Go
  2:26
• 16
  This Is Hip
  2:31
• 17
  Half a Stranger
  4:25
• 18
  Birmingham Blues
  2:55
• 19
  It Serves Me Right to Suffer
  3:32
• 20
  Big Legs, Tight Skirt
  2:17
  3.0 ★

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Release credits

• Andrew “Mike” Terry
  baritone saxophone [13]
• Benny Benjamin
  drums (drum set) [8, 13]
• Calvin Carter
  producer [7-8, 10]
• Earl Phillips
  drums (drum set) [4]
• Eddie Taylor
  guitar [1-2, 9]
• Everett McCrary
  bass guitar [9]
• George Washington
  bass guitar [1-2]
• Hank Crosby
  tenor saxophone [8]
• Henry Cosby
  tenor saxophone [13]
• James Jamerson
  bass [8], bass guitar [13]
• Jimmy Reed
  harmonica [1-2]
• Jimmy Turner
  drums (drum set) [18]
• Joe Hunter
  piano [1.9, 2.8]
• John Lee Hooker
  guitar [2.4, 2.8, 2.13, 2.20, 1.1-2, 1.9, 1.18], vocal [2.4, 2.8, 2.13, 2.20, 1.1-2, 1.5, 1.7, 1.9, 1.18]
• Larry Veeder
  guitar [13]
• Lefty Bates
  guitar [18]
• Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
  background vocals [13]
• Memphis Slim
  piano [13]
• Quinn Wilson
  bass guitar [4]
• Richard Johnson
  drums (drum set) [9]
• Roebuck “Pops” Staples
  guitar [4]
• Sylvester Hickman
  bass [18]
• Tom Whitehead
  drums (drum set) [1-2]
• [unknown]
  instrument [20]
• Show all credits (24)

Issues

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  The Very Best of John Lee Hooker

  2x CD (remastered)
  1997