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Earl Hooker Don't Have To Worry
Recorded May 29, 1969 (Vault Recording Studio Los Angeles, CA) Label: Bluesway/ Stateside (UK) Format : Mp3@; 320  Unlike his contemporaries Elmore James and Muddy Waters, Earl Hooker used standard tuning on his guitar for slide playing. He also used a short steel slide. This allowed him to switch between slide and fretted playing during a song with greater ease. Part of his slide sound has been attributed to his light touch, a technique he learned from Robert Nighthawk. "Instead of using full-chord glissando effects, he preferred the more subtle single-note runs inherited from others who played slide in standard tuning, such as Tampa Red, Houston Stackhouse, and his mentor Robert Nighthawk." In addition to his mastery of slide guitar, Hooker was also a highly developed standard-guitar soloist and rhythm player. At a time when many blues guitarists were emulating B.B. King, Hooker maintained his own course. Although he was a bluesman at heart, Hooker was adept at several musical styles, which he incorporated into his playing as it suited him. Depending on his mood and audience reaction, a Hooker performance could include blues, boogie-woogie, R&B/soul, be-bop, pop, and even a country & western favorite. Earl Hooker was a flamboyant showman in the style of T-Bone Walker and predated Guitar Slim and Johnny "Guitar" Watson. He wore flashy clothes and would pick the guitar with his teeth or his feet or play it behind his neck or between his legs. He also played a double neck guitar, at first a six-string guitar and four-string bass combination and later a twelve- and six-string guitar combination. After his 1967 tuberculosis attack left him weakened, he sometimes played while seated and using a lighter single-neck guitar. In a genre that typically shunned gadgetry, Earl Hooker was an exception. He experimented with amplification and used echo and tape delay, including "double-tracking his playing during a song, so he could pick simultaneously two solos in harmony". In 1968, he began using a wah-wah pedal to add a vocal-like quality to some of his solos. Although Hooker did not receive the public recognition to the extent as some of his contemporaries, he was highly regarded by his fellow musicians. Many consider Earl Hooker to be one of the greatest modern blues guitarists Tracklist : 01. The Sky Is Crying 4:17 02. Hookin' 4:17 03. Is You Ever Seen A One-Eyed Woman Cry? 3:42 04. You Got To Lose 5:42 05. Blue Guitar 3:51 06. Moanin' And Groanin' 4:47 07. Universal Rock 4:08 08. Look Over Yonder's Wall 3:05 09. Don't Have To Worry 4:18 10. Come To Me Right Away, Baby 3:42 Earl Hooker - Guitar & Vocals (4,9) Andrew 'Blues Boy' Odom - Vocals (1,6,10) Johnny Walker - Piano, Organ & Vocals (3,8 ) Paul Asbell - Rhythm Guitar Chester 'Gino' Skaggs - Bass Roosevelt Shaw - Drums Jeffrey M. Carp - Harmonica Sharing Widget |
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