Goin' Down Highway 51
1971 compilation album by John Lee Hooker
Goin' Down Highway 51 | ||||
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Compilation album by John Lee Hooker | ||||
Released | 1971 (1971) | |||
Recorded | August 7, 1951 – November 1954 | |||
Genre | Blues | |||
Length | 30:08 | |||
Label | Specialty | |||
Producer | Bernie Besman | |||
John Lee Hooker chronology | ||||
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Goin' Down Highway 51 is an album by blues musician John Lee Hooker, compiling tracks originally recorded for Bernie Besman between 1948 and 1951, that was released by the Specialty label in 1971.
Reception
An AllMusic review notes: "this LP brings you early recordings of Hooker in his absolute prime. These sides were recorded in Detroit not long after the singer/guitarist's arrival in the Motor City from his native Mississippi".[1]
Track listing
All compositions credited to John Lee Hooker
- "My Baby's Got Something" – 2:48
- "Grinder Man" – 3:10
- "Four Women in My Life" – 3:11
- "Goin' Down Highway 51" – 2:28
- "Sail On Little Girl" – 2:15
- "Miss Sadie Mae" – 2:46
- "Alberta - Part 2" – 2:42
- "21 Boogie" – 2:50
- "Find Me a Woman" – 2:39
- "Hastings Street Boogie" – 2:18
- "Canal Street Blues" – 2:44
- "Strike Blues" – 2:37
- "War Is Over (Goodbye California)" – 2:45
- "Henry's Swing Club" – 3:09
- Recorded in Detroit on September 3, 1948 (tracks 13 & 14), February 16 or 18, 1949 (track 10), July 1949 (tracks 5-7), December 1949 (track 11), February 8 or 27, 1950 (track 4), April 28, 1950 (tracks 8 & 12), November 16, 1950 (track 2) and April 2, 1951 (tracks 3 & 9)
Personnel
- John Lee Hooker – guitar, vocals
- Eddie Kirkland – guitar, vocals
References
- ^ Roundup Newsletter. John Lee Hooker: Goin' Down Highway 51 – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved August 31, 2019.
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John Lee Hooker
- The Country Blues of John Lee Hooker (1959)
- 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)
- Hooker 'n Heat (1971)
- Endless Boogie (1971)
- Never Get Out of These Blues Alive (1972)
- Born in Mississippi, Raised Up in Tennessee (1973)
- Free Beer and Chicken (1974)
- 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)
- "Drifting Blues" (1961)
- "Don't Look Back" (1961)
- "How Long Blues" (1960)
- "Good Mornin', Lil' School Girl" (1960)
- "Smokestack Lightnin'" (1960)
- "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" (1966)
- "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)
- "Red House" (1997)
- Discography
- Detroit blues
- Eddie Kirkland
- Eddie "Guitar" Burns
- Canned Heat
- The Blues Brothers
- The Iron Man: The Musical by Pete Townshend
- John Lee Hooker Jr.