Sometimes it only takes a day to create a great moment. While in November 1961 a young folk singer was recording his debut in New York alone with his acoustic guitar, John Lee Hooker, who had already shared the stage at Gerde’s Folk City with the same promising talent in April, assembled the most accomplished musicians in Chicago , that Motown had to offer, in the studio to take the decisive step in his career spanning more than five decades.
Sometimes it only takes a day to create a great moment
He too had started out as a solo artist and landed a top hit in the R&B charts as early as 1948 with the driving “Boogie Chillen”. Electric guitar, rhythmic pounding and a voice that had experienced what it was singing about were enough. As a soloist, Hooker was uninhibited in his tendency to vary the tempo in the middle of a song or to throw in spontaneous ideas. A nightmare for sidemen of any kind, but not for the six cracks who soon became legends as The Funk Brothers. Completely undeterred, they followed even the smallest turn. After a single session, everything was dry.
It was the single “Boom Boom” that got the blood pumping in young English blues adepts. Thirty years later, a commercial of all things became the focus of infection for the generation after next. The ten songs that followed, produced by Vee Jay mastermind Calvin Carter, including “Blues Before Sunrise,” “Drug Store Woman,” and “Keep Your Hands To Yourself,” with its unmistakable shot of “tequila,” kept that sparked Fire easily burning. For the somewhat belated anniversary, the vinyl version comes up not only with a successful reproduction of the iconic cover but also with a stereo mix sensitively remastered by Kevin Gray. The CD then also comes with the complete album in the original mono sound as well as an alternative take of “Thelma”.
Author: Ronald Born
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