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50 Years: John Lee Hooker Anthology

John Lee Hooker Format: Audio CD
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Track Listings

Disc: 1

1 Boogie Chillen'
2 Hobo Blues
3 Hoogie Boogie
4 Crawlin' King Snake
5 Huckle Up Baby
6 Let Your Daddy Ride
7 John l's House Rent Boogie
8 I'm in the Mood
9 Dimples
10 I Love You Honey
11 No Shoes
12 No More Doggin'
13 I Need Some Money
14 Teachin' the Blues
15 Boom Boom
16 She's Mine

Disc: 2

1 Big Legs Tight Skirt
2 It Serves Me Right to Suffer
3 Bottle Up and Go
4 One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
5 Let's Go out Tonight
6 I Cover the Waterfront
7 I'm Bad Like Jesse James Live
8 Peavine
9 Jealous
10 The Healer
11 I'm in the Mood
12 Same Old Blues Again
13 Boogie at Russian Hill
14 Kiddio
15 Chill Out (Things Gonna Change)
16 Don't Look Back

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The 2-CD set 50 Years: The John Lee Hooker Anthology covers blue legend's entire career from his out-of-the-box 1948 R&B #1 hit "Boogie Chillen'" all the way up to his final recordings in the late '90s. This anthology covers five decades of highlights in between, including his groundbreaking one-man/one-guitar vamps ("Crawlin' King Snake"), bar-band blues ("Dimples"), Funk Brothers-backed pop-blues ("Boom Boom"), blues-rock with Canned Heat ("Peavine"), and career-renaissance duets with Eric Clapton, Santana, Van Morrison, and Bonnie Raitt (including the Grammy-winning duet "I'm in the Mood"). It all adds up to the most complete 2-CD John Lee Hooker overview ever released.

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  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.62 x 4.92 x 0.4 inches; 4 ounces
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ SHOUT! FACTORY
  • Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2009
  • Date First Available ‏ : ‎ January 7, 2009
  • Label ‏ : ‎ SHOUT! FACTORY
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B001P4OAB0
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2
  • Customer Reviews:
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Virtuoso
5.0 out of 5 stars An amazing production making these historic albums like-new again
Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2022
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First of all, I have been a big fan of Focus since I was a kid and 'discovered' them buying their Moving Waves album on the old Blue Horizon label in 1971. Secondly, I did purchase all the main albums featured in this set from Red Bullet when they were remastered 20 years ago (or so). Those recordings were fine, so I questioned the need to buy this set. Red Bullet has done a wonderful job with this production, which I am now so glad that I purchased. Why? The sound is improved, overall. Many of the album cuts which were remastered are major improvements over what were offered earlier. The price is a value, when you consider what you are getting - all the original albums, which include an improved and expanded Rainbow concert (on CD and DVD), a greatly improved Moving Waves - with this purchase I can now hear a clear and potent version of "Hocus Pocus" (previous recordings were sub-par), plus generally excellent early recordings of the complete "Eruption" as being developed in 1970 (due to the old limitations of 20+ minutes on a album side, the magnificent "Eruption" on Moving Waves was shortened around 10 minutes), plus a developmental recording of "Focus I" of 14 minutes which is up to standards. The "Ship of Memories" CD is much superior in sound to the previous Red Bullet remaster, and featured 10 bonus cuts. One criticism: the 1985 Focus album should have been included - I find that it was seriously underrated previously, but contains some wonderful cuts. Stuff that I didn't have: the complete 1973 BBC concert (around an hour long) and 77 minutes of other live recordings on another CD. Both are newly released and highly valued.

The two DVDs are in Region 0 format, which was OK with me since I have a region-free player (so beware). As to the content: The first DVD contains around 2 hours: Old Whistle Stop early group recordings, as well as the complete BBC and Rainbow concerts, The second DVD contains again two full hours of live recordings (variable quality - hey, they were recorded analog around 50 years ago) plus an item I had been searching for in vain for years and years: the last full group reunion recorded in Holland April 1990 which contains 5 cuts and is around 17 minutes in duration.

I must extend my appreciation for the job Red Bullet did producing this package, and highly recommend it to others, especially aspiring guitarists like I became when first hearing Jan Akkerman play on these great albums, which never seem to become tiresome. How many artists can you say that about. OK, the Beatles, then.....?

As far as the video goes, the DVDs are both
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David L
5.0 out of 5 stars Essential for the Focus fan, old and new
Reviewed in the United States on June 12, 2021
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As noted by other reviewers, this box set is quite the bargain, given the amount of material covered. I'd owned the previous CD versions of the first 4 studio albums, and the new versions are welcome improvements, not just sonically, and definitely for the bonus tracks. I especially welcomed the fixes to Focus 3; the old one had bad indexing, bad segues and bad editing, but in the box set's booklet they make a point of mentioning that Anonymus 2, for example, was restored to its original form, and the studio laughter at the end of Answers? Questions!...is intact.

A few nitpicks: there could have been repros of the original U.S. sleeve designs for Focus 3 and At the Rainbow; the Focus logo used throughout (with the rainbow design) was in fact the one used on the U.S. Focus 3 LP. I was wondering if the b-side "Hocus Pocus II" (from the Sire single) was included here, since I didn't see it listed, but it ended up on the Focus 3 CD as "Hocus Pocus (U.S. Single Version)." The track-by-track notes originally included on the original Ship of Memories should have been included as well.

The previously unreleased live material provided a surprise or two, mainly the early versions of Eruption, one stretched to 46:00. Now I know that the extract from Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra inserted in the At the Rainbow version was a part of Eruption from the beginning, and that it was likely changed for the studio version due to copyright issues. There was a second Bartok extract used in the early versions as well.

Some notes on the DVDs: First, they fortunately proved compatible with my 10-yr-old laptop. Of course some occasional glitches in the film or tape were unavoidable, but any vintage footage is welcome, and overall everything was of high quality. My only real complaint is that there couldn't have been English subtitles for the interview segments (mainly in the 1997 documentary) where Dutch was spoken (though where English was spoken, Dutch subtitles were provided).

All in all, highly recommended for fans old and new. 5 stars in spite of my nitpicks.
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Arthurley
5.0 out of 5 stars The DVD's played
Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2021
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Excellent anthology of the band when they mattered 1970-76! Contains all material released here and abroad as well as bonus tracks on all re-mastered Lp's! The new sound is excellent and brings some cuts to life in a whole new way! It includes all BBC recordings of the band in this time period. Highlights of the bonus material are two versions of Eruption performed in concert one in 1970 clocking in at 37:31 and the other in 1971 at 46:10 that are stunning! I purchased this box believing that the DVD's were of European codes and would not play so you can imagine my surprise when the box arrived and they played on my American made blu-ray player! Highlites of the DVD's are the entire Focus at the Rainbow concert which was released in the states on Lp as well as them playing Hamburger Concerto on BBC TV. All in all a excellent set and a must if you are a fan of the band!
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Miguel Ángel Inda
5.0 out of 5 stars Focus? Sí que sí
Reviewed in Mexico on March 29, 2024
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Me llegó a tiempo, en buen estado y a precio satisfactorio. Gran banda con grandes temas, Jan Akkerman en la guitarra fenomenal!
Me gustó la presentación del BoxSet en replicas de los LPs originales. Buen sonido. Moving Waves el mejor. Recomendable para los amantes del Rock Progresivo!
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ebygum
5.0 out of 5 stars the real deal
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 13, 2024
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such a good band with a few classic singles but this is full on proggy goodness mad jams trying to push on to the future past bonkers
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gambon
5.0 out of 5 stars compleet overzicht van het werk
Reviewed in Germany on January 13, 2024
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Alles wat er maar te vinden is van Focus in 1 zeer betaalbare box.
Fraai vormgegeven met een mooi boekje.
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FERNANDO P.
5.0 out of 5 stars Asi deben de hacerse los Boxset
Reviewed in Spain on April 9, 2023
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Fantástico boxset, todos los ( importantes) álbumes de Focus, infinidad de bonus tracks, un sonido excelso y el libreto muy informativo.
A un precio ajustado.
No necesita memorabilia, posters ni pegatinas como otros boxsets.
Si te gusta el Progrock , cómpralo
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Bruce Atchison
5.0 out of 5 stars Everything you ever wanted to know about Focus and more
Reviewed in Canada on February 17, 2021
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This box set is a treasure trove for fans of the jazz-rock band Focus. It contains all their albums from 1970 to 1976 and the disks have bonus tracks of mixes. The live concert disks are also fascinating to hear. Live at The Rainbow is the full concert, not the truncated vinyl version. The box contains 2 region 0 DVDs of live concert footage and an interview of the band. My only quibble is that the box doesn't have the 3D rainbow logo like the LP of Focus 3 has. Apart from that, it's the ideal collection for folks who either love the band or who haven't switched over from vinyl to CDs of the band.
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