Free Beer and Chicken
Free Beer and Chicken | ||||
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Studio album by John Lee Hooker | ||||
Released | 1974 (1974) | |||
Recorded | May 1974 | |||
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Genre | Blues | |||
Length | 39:46 | |||
Label | ABC | |||
Producer | Ed Michel | |||
John Lee Hooker chronology | ||||
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Free Beer and Chicken is an album by blues musician John Lee Hooker recorded in California in 1974 and released by the ABC label the same year.
Reception
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings | [2] |
AllMusic reviewer Eugene Chadbourne stated: "In some ways this is a typical John Lee Hooker album; in other ways it is totally unlike any other he did. Being interesting can be a curse, however, as the music itself just isn't that inspired. Of course ... Free Beer and Chicken has the sound of a collection of tracks that were salvaged from some ambitious but never finished project involving dozens of guests. That's one thing that is typical, or at least would become typical in the last, most high-profile decade of Hooker's career ... Free Beer and Chicken gets a low rating due to the presence of all the talent mentioned, as well as the genius of Hooker: With all that going for it, this should have been a much better album".[1]
Track listing
All compositions credited to John Lee Hooker
- "Make It Funky" – 3:27
- "Five Long Years" (Eddie Boyd) – 5:59
- "713 Blues" – 4:39
- "714 Blues" – 2:59
- "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" – 3:29
- "Homework" – 4:26
- "Bluebird" 4:52
- "Settin' on Top of the World" – 3:27
- "(You'll Never Amount to Anything If You Don't Go to) Collage (A Fortuitous Concatenation of Events)" – 5:52
- "I Know How to Rock"
- "Nothin' But the Best"
- "The Scratch" (Joe Cocker)
- "Sally Mae"
Personnel
- John Lee Hooker – guitar, vocals
- Greg Adams – trumpet (tracks 1, 7 & 9)
- Mic Gillette – trumpet, trombone (tracks 1, 7 & 9)
- Sam Rivers – flute (track 2)
- Emilio Castillo (tracks 1, 7 & 9), Lenny Pickett (tracks 1 & 7) – tenor saxophone
- Stephen Kupka – baritone saxophone (tracks 1, 7 & 9)
- Jim Caroompas (track 9), Charles Grimes (tracks 1 & 9), Hollywood Fats (tracks 3-5, 7 & 8), Jim Kahr (tracks 2 & 7), Jim Thorsen (track 9), Howard Roberts (tracks 3, 4 & 6), Luther Tucker (track 9), Wa-Wa Watson (tracks 1, 2, 6 & 9), – guitar
- Clifford Coulter – piano, Fender Rhodes electric piano, Hohner clavinet, Fender bass, Moog bass, Moog synthesizer, ARP synthesizer
- Robert Hooker – piano, Fender Rhodes electric piano, Hammond organ (tracks 1 & 9)
- Skip Olsen – Fender bass, bass (tracks 3, 4 & 9)
- Ron E. Beck (tracks 2-6), Ken Swank (tracks 1, 3, 4, 7 & 9) – drums
- Kenneth Nash – balophon, congas, Griot bells, Chinese hand cymbals, Ganquok bell, shaker (tracks 1 & 8), kalimba (track 8)
- Joe Cocker – vocals, tambourine (tracks 2, 5 & 9)
- Sugarcane Harris (tracks 3 & 4), Michael White (tracks 8 & 9) – violin
- Peter Berg – coconut banjo (track 8)
- Fatz Wess – tom tom, Moog synthesizer (track 8)
- Boyd Albritton – slide guitar (track 9)
References
- ^ a b Chadbourne, Eugene. John Lee Hooker: Free Bee and Chicken – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
- ^ Russell, Tony; Smith, Chris (2006). The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings. Penguin. p. 273. ISBN 978-0-140-51384-4.
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- Travelin' (1960)
- That's My Story (1960)
- The Folk Lore of John Lee Hooker (1961)
- Burnin' (1962)
- The Big Soul of John Lee Hooker (1963)
- John Lee Hooker on Campus (1964)
- Burning Hell (1964)
- ...And Seven Nights (1965)
- It Serve You Right to Suffer (1966)
- The Real Folk Blues (1966)
- Urban Blues (1967)
- Simply the Truth (1969)
- If You Miss 'Im...I Got 'Im (1969)
- Get Back Home (1969)
- I Feel Good! (1971)
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- Endless Boogie (1971)
- Never Get Out of These Blues Alive (1972)
- Born in Mississippi, Raised Up in Tennessee (1973)
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- Sittin' Here Thinkin' (1980)
- Jealous (1987)
- The Healer (1989)
- More Real Folk Blues: The Missing Album (1991)
- Mr. Lucky (1991)
- Chill Out (1995)
- Don't Look Back (1997)
- Concert at Newport (1963)
- Live at Sugar Hill (1963)
- Live at Cafe Au Go Go (1967)
- Live at Soledad Prison (1972)
- Kabuki Wuki (1973)
- The Cream (1978)
- House of the Blues (1959)
- I'm John Lee Hooker (1959)
- John Lee Hooker Plays & Sings the Blues (1961)
- Folk Blues (1962)
- Don't Turn Me from Your Door (1963)
- Original Folk Blues (1964)
- That's Where It's At! (1969)
- Goin' Down Highway 51 (1971)
- The Ultimate Collection (1991)
- Come See About Me (2004)
- "Boogie Chillen'" (1948)
- "Crawling King Snake" (1948)
- "Jack o' Diamonds" (1949)
- "Trouble in Mind" (1949)
- "Catfish" (1951)
- "I'm in the Mood" (1951)
- "Sugar Mama" (1952)
- "Worried Life Blues" (1952)
- "Baby, Please Don't Go" (1952)
- "Key to the Highway" (1952)
- "I'm Ready" (1956)
- "Dimples" (1956)
- "I Need Some Money" (1960)
- "Boom Boom" (1961)
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- "Don't Look Back" (1961)
- "How Long Blues" (1960)
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- "Bottle Up & Go" (1966)
- "I Can't Quit You Baby" (1966)
- "Meet Me in the Bottom" (1971)
- "Roll and Tumble" (1971)
- "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" (1974)
- "Terraplane Blues" (1987)
- "I Cover the Waterfront" (1991)
- "The Healing Game" (1997)
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