Earl Hooker, Blue Guitar - 50m 33s

Tracks & Durations

1. Will My Man Be Home Tonight (Vocal by Lillian Offitt)	2:38
2. Oh Mama (Vocal by Lillian Offitt)	2:47
3. Calling All Blues	2:34
4. Swear To Tell The Truth (Vocal by Harold Tidwell)	2:34
5. Galloping Horses A Lazy Mule	2:34
6. Blues In D Natural	2:13
7. Universal Rock	2:32
8. Apache War Dance	2:18
9. Rocking With The Kid	2:08
10. Rockin' Wild	2:07
11. This Little Voice (Vocal by A.C. Reed)	2:21
12. Blue Guitar	2:41
13. How Long Can This Go On	2:13
14. These Cotton Pickin' Blues	2:46
15. That Man	2:32
16. Win The Dance	2:04
17. Crying Blues	2:00
18. The Bright Sound	2:15
19. Off The Hook	1:42
20. Lotta Lovin' (Vocal by A.C. Reed)	2:48
21. The Leading Brand	2:34

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Review

B.B. King calls Earl Hooker one of his favorite guitarists. Indeed, this late, underrecorded master of melody, rhythm, and especially slide was a giant whose renown was diminished by his premature death from tuberculosis at age 40 in 1970 and his relatively small number of recordings as a leader. Much of this CD features Hooker as a sideman, backing singers Lillian Offit, Harold Tidwell, and A.C. Reed. Too bad, because it's the instrumentals that make this disc worth owning. Hooker's slide is sweet and buttery on tunes like "The Leading Brand" and "Blues in D Natural." He tips up the tempo for his own arrangement of Junior Wells's theme song, which Hooker called "Rocking with the Kid." And his sly picking in organ-combo tunes like "The Bright Sound" and "Off the Hook" are textbook blues guitar genius. --Ted Drozdowski

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Blue Guitar

Tracks: 29 (+8 tracks), Disk length: 1h 11m 29s (+20m 56s)

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