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The talent and real soul. It's beautiful.The music.
Well. The recording on old music like this stinks.
The recording is so imperfect and flawed there's simply no reason to. actually, maybe it doesn't.The entire drum kit as well as horns are isolated to the right channelBass guitar isolated to the left.Noise floor is insanely high.My Magnepan 20.1 speakers and McInstosh gear can still extract a life size center of John and his guitar but you can forget about anything resembling coherent sound stage of the full band.This CD reminds me of the old classic movies that relied on the acting performance of the players before the special effects ability of today.The itch to analyze recordings like this, and the quality of the gear presenting it, simply melts away.
You find yourself involved in the performance forgetting the entire world of audiophilia.There's no need to analyze. They lyrics.
It's the performance that carries this entire CD.Incredible.5 stars easy.
This is THE music to get. Packed with power.Serves You Right To Suffer does not deviate a wit from this, nor should it. John Lee Hooker was the most basic of all the major bluesmen. That one chord boogie he did for over fifty years was blues at its essense. Simply put, this raw, primal, music: music as energy, music as sound, music as pure and basic emotion. Hypnotic, perfect and essential
His playing throughout is inspired and crisp, among some of his best. John Lee Hooker-It Serves You Right To Suffer ****1/2The fact that you can get many of these tracks on compilations with some of Hookers best work is far from an argument against the album. Together the tracks found on It Serves You Right To Suffer play as such a strong and concise effort it serves as one of the greatest blues albums of all time.'Bottle Up & Go' 'Decoration Day' his working of 'Money' and the albums title track serve as some of the very best of Hookers long and fantastic career. His style is more prominent through this release than just about any other he would ever put out, and it shows why he became so influential in the guitar and blues realms.It Serves You Right To Suffer is among the very best Hooker albums ever released. His power can be heard here better than any other of his albums, so buy a best of if you want but your missing the point when you avoid the album.
One of Hooker's top five albums ever. This becomes evident during Hooker's version of "Money".
The sound quality on this album is top notch (this is not true with all John Lee Hooker material or blues in general). This also includes some of Hooker's best songs, including "It Serves You Right to Suffer" and "Sugar Mama".
This is a great John Lee Hooker and probably one of the best blues albums period. This album came out in the 60's after the start of the British Invasion and this is Hooker's attempt to make a mainstream album for those who were into British Invasion groups.
The real deal of this album is that Hooker is trying to mainstream himself here. This is not from the classic Hooker period (but it is a classic album).
Typically the blues artists that tried to make a mainstream/ pop album lost a lot of what makes them great but what is so amazing about this album is that Hooker makes a mainstream album and sounds like Hooker. You need to buy this.
This is the real deal. John Lee Hooker with some of his strongest blues and at a rock bottom price. YOu can't beat it with a stick.
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