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Description
Once the heart of America's motor industry, many of Detroit's production lines are derelict, 30,000 houses are empty or demolished. Neighbors now grow vegetables for neighbors, while industrialised farming waits to take over.
The inner city tries to regenerate itself but wholesale bankruptcy acts as a deterrent. Music and gas-guzzling cars stagger on but the city that nurtured the talents of the artists featured here has all but vanished.
As well as automobiles, there was music. But until Motown, Detroit even lacked a major record label. Activity came from a handful of independents - Fortune, JVB, Sensation and Staff among them - who relied on local talent.
Then there was Elmer Barbee, the owner of a record store with a studio in the rear. He it was who found John Lee Hooker playing a little bar on Monroe Street. The pair persisted for a year before - through the success of Boogie Chillun - Hooker's talent became increasingly widely known.
Here are many of Hooker's early Detroit recordings and of the many who hoped to achieve - and occasionally succeeded in achieving - similar success. -
Tracklisting
- 1. John Lee Hooker: Rocks
- 2. John Lee Hooker: Leavin Chicago
- 3. John Lee Hooker: Wednesday Evening Blues
- 4. John Lee Hooker: Mercy Blues
- 5. John Lee Hooker: Boogie Woogie
- 6. John Lee Hooker: Good Business
- 7. John Lee Hooker: Poor Slim Tk 1
- 8. John Lee Hooker: Shake Your Boogie
- 9. John Lee Hooker: Poor Slim Tk 2
- 10. John Lee Hooker: Down So Long
- 11. John Lee Hooker: Miss Pearl Boogie
- 12. John Lee Hooker: Boogie Awhile
- 13. John Lee Hooker: Tuesday Evening
- 14. John Lee Hooker: Christmas Time Blues
- 15. John Lee Hooker: Cotton Pickin Boogie
- 16. John Lee Hooker: Low Down Boogie
- 17. John Lee Hooker: We Gonna Make Everything Alright
- 18. John Lee Hooker: Must I Wait Til Your Man Is Gone
- 19. John Lee Hooker: Roll Me Baby
- 20. John Lee Hooker: Miss Rosie Mae
- 21. John Lee Hooker: Highway Blues
- 22. John Lee Hooker: I Love To Boogie
- 23. John Lee Hooker: Real Gone Gal
- 24. John Lee Hooker: Little Boy Blue
- 1. John Lee Hooker: Questionnaire Blues
- 2. John Lee Hooker: My Daddy Was A Jockey
- 3. John Lee Hooker: Feed Her All Night
- 4. John Lee Hooker: How Long Must I Be Your Slave
- 5. John Lee Hooker: Ground Hog
- 6. John Lee Hooker: Mean Old Train
- 7. John Lee Hooker: Catfish
- 8. John Lee Hooker: Have Mercy On Poor Me
- 9. John Lee Hooker: I Came To See You Baby
- 10. John Lee Hooker: I m A Boogie Man
- 11. John Lee Hooker: My Baby Left Me
- 12. Eddie Burns: I Ain t Cheatin
- 13. Eddie Burns: Sunnyland Blues
- 14. Eddie Burns: Making A Fool Out Of Me
- 15. Eddie Burns: Gangster Blues
- 16. Eddie Burns: Grieving Blues
- 17. Eddie Burns: Where Did You Stay Last Night
- 18. Eddie Burns: Squeeze Me Baby
- 19. Eddie Burns: Decoration Day Blues
- 20. Eddie Burns: She Keeps Me Guessing
- 21. Eddie Burns: Sitting Here Wondering
- 22. Eddie Burns: I Love To Jump The Boogie
- 23. Eddie Burns: Tavern Lounge Boogie
- 24. Richard Brothers: Stolen Property
- 25. Big Jack Reynolds: Going Down Slow
- 1. Sylvester Cotton: Three Cent Stamp Blues
- 2. Sylvester Cotton: Brownskin Woman
- 3. Sylvester Cotton: Ugly Woman
- 4. Sylvester Cotton: Christmas Blues
- 5. Sylvester Cotton: Cottonfield Blues
- 6. Sylvester Cotton: Stormy Weather Blues
- 7. Sylvester Cotton: Wife Lovin Blues
- 8. Sylvester Cotton: Stranger In Your Town Tk 1
- 9. Sylvester Cotton: Big Chested Mama Blues Tk 1
- 10. Sylvester Cotton: Thanksgiving Blues
- 11. Sylvester Cotton: Sak-relation Blues
- 12. Sylvester Cotton: Pay Day Blues
- 13. Sylvester Cotton: I Tried
- 14. Sylvester Cotton: When I m Gone Tk 1
- 15. Sylvester Cotton: Waterlee Blues
- 16. Sylvester Cotton: Single Man Blues
- 17. Sylvester Cotton: Way Down In Hell
- 18. Sylvester Cotton: Stranger In Your Town Tk 2
- 19. Sylvester Cotton: Big Chested Mama Blues Tk 2
- 20. Sylvester Cotton: When I m Gone Tk 2
- 21. Alfred Dunham: Mae Liza Tk 1
- 22. Alfred Dunham: Sweet Lucy
- 23. Alfred Dunham: Hattie Mae
- 24. Alfred Dunham: Little Bitty Woman Tk 1
- 25. Alfred Dunham: Got A Woman
- 26. Alfred Dunham: She Left Me
- 1. Alfred Dunham: I Found Out
- 2. Alfred Dunham: Genevee
- 3. Alfred Dunham: Nezeree Blues
- 4. Alfred Dunham: Mae Liza Tk 2
- 5. Alfred Dunham: Little Bitty Woman Tk 2
- 6. L.C. Green & Sam Kelly: When The Sun Was Shining
- 7. L.C. Green & Sam Kelly: Little Schoolgirl
- 8. L.C. Green & Sam Kelly: Remember Way Back
- 9. L.C. Green & Sam Kelly: Shine My Light
- 10. James Walton: Eva Lee
- 11. James Walton: If You Don t Believe I m Leaving
- 12. James Walton: Papa Do
- 13. Bobo Jenkins: Decoration Day Blues Tk 1
- 14. Bobo Jenkins: Seasick And Water Bound
- 15. Bobo Jenkins: Ten Below Zero
- 16. Bobo Jenkins: Baby Don t You Want To Go
- 17. Bobo Jenkins: Decoration Day Blues Tk 2
- 18. Eddie Kirkland: Mercy Blues
- 19. Eddie Kirkland: I ll Move You
- 20. Eddie Kirkland: Train Done Gone
- 21. Eddie Kirkland: You Know I Love You
- 22. Eddie Kirkland: Blood On Your Hands
- 23. Eddie Kirkland: Love You Till The Day I Die
- 24. Eddie Kirkland: I Must Have Done Somebody Wrong
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