Earl Hooker - Calling All Blues (2021)

                                                                Earl Hooker

 Earl Zebedee Hooker (January 15, 1930 – April 21, 1970) was a Chicago blues guitarist known for his slide guitar playing. Considered a "musician's musician", he performed with blues artists such as Sonny Boy Williamson II, Junior Wells, and John Lee Hooker and fronted his own bands. An early player of the electric guitar, Hooker was influenced by the modern urban styles of T-Bone Walker and Robert Nighthawk. He recorded several singles and albums as a bandleader and with other well-known artists. His "Blue Guitar", a slide guitar instrumental single, was popular in the Chicago area and was later overdubbed with vocals by Muddy Waters as "You Shook Me".
In the late 1960s, Hooker began performing on the college and concert circuit and had several recording contracts. Just as his career was on an upswing, he died in 1970, at age 40, after a lifelong struggle with tuberculosis. His guitar playing has been acknowledged by many of his peers, including B.B. King, who commented, "to me he is the best of modern guitarists. Period. With the slide he was the best. It was nobody else like him, he was just one of a kind".
 
 

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Tracklist:
 
01. Rockin’ Wild 02:09
02. Calling All Blues 02:35
03. Swear to Tell the Truth 02:33
04. Galloping Horses a Lazy Mule 02:34
05. Apache War Dance 02:18
06. Rockin’ with Kid 02:09
07. This Little Voice 02:23
08. I Wanna Be Free 02:38
09. That Ain’t Right 02:00
10. Blue Guitar 02:42
11. Will My Man Be Home Tonight 02:39
12. Oh Mama 02:49
13. Blues in D Natural 02:15
14. Universal Rock 02:32