Back then at V&D these albums were 2.50 guilders. I had seen that mentioned in the Saturday edition of the newspaper but was sick and asked a friend of mine to just take 2 elpees at random. One of them was this one. I don’t really like greatest hits, but she knew a lot and this seemed like a safe choice. I often find greatest hits a mishmash but this one was consistent and all the songs fit together perfectly, especially in terms of atmosphere. Such an old United Artists record. Very pure performances, on which the depth of John Lee Hooker’s voice is outstanding. Still the vintage sound without embellishments and great performances that bore right in. Terrible albums they released. I found that out later. When I heard this album I knew it….this kind of music is what gets me. Since then I have never been able to let go of the blues and my tastes have changed forever. Blues, preferably bare and as pure as possible. And that’s what you get with this album. The old Lightning Hopkins albums have that too, just like the terrible, terrible and another terrible Alabama Blues by J.B. Lenoir. But that’s not an elpee. And no matter how many elpees\/CDs I have heard of John Lee Hooker that are not greatest hits: this elpee remains unsurpassed. By anyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9441","bluesvdmaand","type-bluesvdmaand","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n