Live At The Cafe Au Go-Go (And Soledad Prison)

Release Date: 1996-11-19, Audio CD, Mca

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From: Amazon
Posted: Jan-21-2007

Hard blues True blues Live blues

John lee seemed like he had the blues his hole life.Maybe he did maybe he didn't. He played the hole blues man thing to a T. He seemed like the coolest of all cats when he was up on stage. That's because he was. The people bought it hook line and sinker as they should.I have heard,lived and felt...

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Posted: Jan-10-2007

Best Ever

If I was stranded on a deserted island and I was to have one CD this would be the one , thought that Hooker and Heat was good , this blows it away ...............

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Posted: Oct-18-2006

Two Great Live Albums in One CD

This is actually two live albums combined. Cafe Go-Go finds Johnny earlier in his career and Live at Soledad prison finds Johnny mid-career right in the middle of his endless boogie phase. Live at The Cafe Go-Go is recoreded with Muddy Waters band (Muddy always had the best bands!) including the...

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Posted: Jul-01-2006

John Lee Hooker - Live At The Cafe Au Go-Go (And S

This is JLH as his best... This is a got to have it! listen to serves me right to suffer...CLASSIC BLUES FROM "THE TRUE KING OF BLUES" MR. LUCKY HIMSELF...JOHN..LEE..HOOKER!!! A+

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Posted: Nov-22-2005

Live John Lee...

Hearing John Lee Hooker backed by the Muddy Water's band from the 1960's is a real treat. The version of "I'm Bad Like Jessie James" that opens the CD is one of the most menacing songs I've ever heard; John Lee describes in detail how he will "take care of" a former friend he took in who went...

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Posted: Apr-07-2005

What an incredible man!

It's hard not to get shivers when listening to this recording. John Lee Hooker had such an incredible voice and it's as if his singing and playing encapsulates all misery imaginable. He extracted so much emotion from these songs that made me feel as though I'd actually lived the experience....

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Posted: Nov-03-2004

Artistry, Innovacation, Creative work by a sensitive genius

Like too many blues artists, Hooker tends to be reduced to a primitivist stereotype. Rather than being a creative artist whose depth of spirit, intellect, music and poetry create a new power and product with his music, he is misinterpreted as some kind of relict of an older or truer blues...

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From: Amazon
Posted: Jul-02-2004

A Real Transformation

Despite Hooker being in his prime and having a great band at the Cafe Au Go-Go, I found the tracks from his performance there tepid. It sounds like he was trying to tone down his act for an ofay audience. Really - it's not a lively performance. So, that part of the disc gets three...

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Posted: Jan-16-2004

Classic, Must-Have

Miles Davis once told John Lee that, "You sound like you're buried up to your neck in mud" (that's a good thing if you tell the blues). This CD is deep. Raw. Painful. In fact, "I'm Bad Like Jesse James" hits so hard that you get scared just listening to the song. This live compilation, especially...

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Posted: Nov-30-2003

Wonderfully gritty live blues

This CD reissue combines John Lee Hooker's "Live At The Cafe Au Go-Go" album with five songs from his "Live At Soledad Prison" LP (the other two songs from that LP had John Lee Hooker, jr. doing lead vocals, which is probably why they aren't included).The eight Caf? Au Go-Go-tracks feature Muddy...

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