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Description Ripped from original CD with Exact Audio Copy. Art & Rip log included. All tracks are Properly tagged with art embedded in tag. John Lee Hooker 1998 - The Best Of Friends (2007 Expanded Remaster) [mp3@320]  John Lee Hooker  John Lee Hooker performing at the Long Beach Blues Festival, California, August 31, 1997 Wikipedia: John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1917 – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He was born in Mississippi, the son of a sharecropper, and rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-style adaptation of Delta blues. Hooker often incorporated other elements, including talking blues and early North Mississippi Hill country blues. He developed his own driving-rhythm boogie style, distinct from the 1930s–1940s piano-derived boogie-woogie. Some of his best known songs include "Boogie Chillen'" (1948), "Crawling King Snake" (1949), "Dimples" (1956), "Boom Boom" (1962), and "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" (1966). Boogie Chillen' was the most popular race record of 1949. The Best Of Friends (2007 Expanded Remaster)  Artist: John Lee Hooker Title: The Best Of Friends (2007 Expanded Remaster) Release Date: April 3, 2007 (1998) Producers: Mario Caldato, Jr., Ry Cooder, Jim Gaines, Mike Kappus, Van Morrison, Jeff Palo, J.P. Plunier, John Porter, Carlos Santana Reissue Producer: Shawn Amos Label: Shout! Factory Catalog #: 826663-10436 ASIN: B000NJXG9U Genre: Blues, Delta Blues, Acoustic Blues Duration: 68:08 Amazon.com Review by Genevieve Williams: The Hook's definitive duets album, remastered and expanded! Up and Down with Johnnie Johnson joins Boogie Chillen with Eric Clapton; The Healer with Carlos Santana; Dimples with Los Lobos; the Grammy-winning I'm in the Mood with Bonnie Raitt and Don't Look Back with Van Morrison, and more. The premise behind this compilation is somewhat unusual: classic tracks, yes, but classic tracks recorded by John Lee Hooker... and friends. Charles Brown, Eric Clapton, Ry Cooder, Los Lobos, and Bonnie Raitt are only some of the performers who appear here, and the tracks, selected from recordings made by the prolific guitarist since 1988, show that Hooker hasn't lost his touch. Among the highlights, there's a smokin' duet with Raitt on "I'm in the Mood," a rendition of "Boom Boom" with a guest appearance from Jimmie Vaughan, and a reprise of Hooker's 1956 hit "Dimples" with Los Lobos backing up. Mention must also be made of the lone solo track on this CD, the acoustic "Tupelo," which hearkens to Hooker's Delta blues roots. There are also three previously unreleased tracks, which are probably the real reason to get this compilation. AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine: John Lee Hooker's recordings for Virgin/Point Blank may have varied in quality, but never in formula. Once The Healer earned reams of praise and, more importantly, solid sales upon its 1989 release, it was pretty much set in stone that every future Hooker album would be painstakingly constructed and boast a plethora of superstar cameos. The guest stars were designed to bring in a larger audience, who would hopefully be impressed enough to stick around for Hooker's solid stuff, which was usually better than the attention-grabbing, star-studded tracks. Of course, the names are what sold, and Virgin did not overlook that fact, choosing to assemble a collection of highlights titled The Best of Friends in 1998. (The 2007 Shout! Factory edition features one bonus cut.)  01. Boogie Chillen' (with Eric Clapton) [04:37] 02. This Is Hip (with Ry Cooder, Nick Lowe and Johnnie Johnson) [03:27] 03. The Healer (with Carlos Santana) [05:41] 04. I Cover the Waterfront (with Van Morrison and Booker T. Jones) [06:43] 05. Boom Boom (with Jimmie Vaughan) [04:20] 06. I'm in the Mood (with Bonnie Raitt) [04:30] 07. Burning Hell (with Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite) [05:03] 08. Tupelo [03:56] 09. Baby Lee (with Robert Cray) [03:44] 10. Dimples (with Los Lobos) [04:03] 11. Chill Out (Things Gonna Change) (with Carlos Santana) [04:48] 12. Big Legs, Tight Skirt (with Ry Cooder) [06:03] 13. Don't Look Back (with Van Morrison) [06:45] 14. Up and Down (with Johnnie Johnson) (Bonus Track) [04:35] Artists: José Chepitó Areas - Timbales Eric Barber - Sax (Bass) Steve Berlin - Sax (Baritone) Gil Bernal - Sax (Tenor), Vocals Gaylord Birch - Drums Victor Bisetti - Drums Dean Butterworth - Drums Danny Caron - Guitar Leon "Ndugu" Chancler - Drums Eric Clapton - Guest Artist, Guitar Joachim Cooder - Drums Ry Cooder - Guest Artist, Guitar Richard Cousins - Bass Robert Cray - Guitar Maurice Cridlin - Bass Ruth Davies - Bass (Acoustic) Steve Ehrmann - Bass Terry Evans - Vocals William "Bill" Greene - Vocals Ben Harper - Guitar Kevin Hayes - Drums David Hidalgo - Guitar John Lee Hooker - Guitars, Vocals Johnnie Johnson - Piano Booker T. Jones - Organ Bobby "Blanco" King - Vocals Rich Kirch - Guitar John "Juke" Logan - Harmonica Nick Lowe - Bass Conrad Lozano - Bass Reggie McBride - Bass Van Morrison - Guitar, Vocals Charlie Musselwhite - Harmonica Juan Nelson - Bass Michael Osborn - Guitar Bill Payne - Keyboards Armando Peraza - Congas Karl Perazzo - Timbales Jim Pugh - Keyboards Bonnie Raitt - Guitar, Vocals Raul Rekow - Congas Benny Rietveld - Bass Roy Rogers - Guitar Cesar Rosas - Guitar Carlos Santana - Guitar Johnny Lee Schell - Guitar Samuel Taylor - Bass Chester Thompson - Keyboards, Synthesizer Ike Turner - Piano Jimmie Vaughan - Guitar Note: This is not my rip. My thanks to the original uploader (whoever that may be).    ♪♬♫ ENJOY! ♪♬♫ Related Torrents
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