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CANNED HEAT & JOHN LEE HOOKER
HOOKER ‘N HEAT

Original 1970 double album liner notes

Canned Heat have long admired and loved John Lee Hooker, and it doesn’t seem strange that John has also admired Canned Heat.  “I sure like the way you boys boogie,” John had said at one chance meeting.  The Heat had often talked about recording an album with him, and in April, 1970, ABC Bluesway gave John permission to do just that.

He arrived for the session wearing a plaid cap, leather jacket, black satin shirt and some old dress slacks and carrying the old Epiphone guitar that had been around the world more than once.

Once at the studio, we tried out about eight really ancient amps before finding the one that had that real “Hooker” sound – a sound we hadn’t heard on John’s records for a long, long time.  We built a plywood platform for John to sit on while he played.  An old Silvertone amp rested a few feet away.  One mike on the amp, one for his voice, and one to pick up John’s stompin’ – he never quits stompin’!  Never far away, a bottle of Chivas Regal and a cup of water to smooth it down.

There is another blues great who really shines on this album – Alan “Blind Owl” Wilson.  This is the last album that the Owl was to record, for he died suddenly, shortly after the album was finished.  Hooker calls Alan “the greatest harmonica player ever.”  Alan’s piano and guitar work were also brilliant as this album clearly demonstrates.

During the past decade, John Lee Hooker’s appeal has been primarily to blues enthusiasts, but his human insight and compassion are universal in today’s troubled times.  Hopefully, with the availability of this album, a larger audience than ever before will be exposed to the talent of John Lee Hooker, Alan Wilson, and Canned Heat.

This is the real “boogie” – old and new together.  John Lee Hooker invented the “boogie” thirty years ago and Canned Heat made it popular on today’s music scene.  Here, then, is the natural and logical fusion of John Lee Hooker and Canned Heat doing the kind of music together that has made each of them famous three decades apart!

“Boogie Chillen”
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Various Musicians Playing on Each Track:

SIDE ONE

“Messin’ With The Hook”  (2:17)
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John Lee Hooker (instr. & vocal)

“The Feelin’ Is Gone”  (4:31)
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John Lee Hooker (instr. & vocal)

“Send Me Your Pillow”  (3:39)
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John Lee Hooker (instr. & vocal)

“Sittin’ Here Thinkin’”  (4:11)
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John Lee Hooker (instr. & vocal)

“Meet Me In The Bottom”  (3:34)
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John Lee Hooker (instr. & vocal)
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SIDE TWO

“Alimonia Blues”   (4:28)
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John Lee Hooker (instr. & vocal)

“Drifter”  (4:39)
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John Lee Hooker (instr. & vocal)

“You Talk Too Much”  (3:08)
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John Lee Hooker (guitar & vocal)

“Burning Hell” *  (3:55)
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John Lee Hooker (guitar & vocal)

“Bottle Up And Go”  (2:20)
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John Lee Hooker (guitar & vocal)
Alan Wilson (piano)
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SIDE THREE

“The World Today”   (7:22)
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John Lee Hooker (guitar & vocal)
Alan Wilson (piano)

“I Got My Eyes On You”  (4:21)
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John Lee Hooker (guitar & vocal)
Alan Wilson (guitar)

“Whiskey And Wimmen’”  (4:33)
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John Lee Hooker (rhythm guitar & vocal)
Henry Vestine (lead guitar)
Alan Wilson (harmonica)
Antonio de la Parra (bass)
Adolfo de la Parra (drums)

“Just You And Me”  (7:37)
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John Lee Hooker (guitar & vocal)
Henry Vestine (lead guitar)
Alan Wilson (harmonica)
Antonio de la Parra (bass)
Adolfo de la Parra (drums)
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SIDE FOUR

“Let’s Make It”   (4:04)
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John Lee Hooker (guitar & vocal)
Henry Vestine (lead guitar)
Alan Wilson (harmonica)
Antonio de la Parra (bass)
Adolfo de la Parra (drums)

“Peavine”  (5:00)
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John Lee Hooker (guitar & vocal)
Alan Wilson (rhythm guitar)
Antonio de la Parra (bass)
Adolfo de la Parra (drums)

“Boogie Chillen No. 2” *  (11:35)
Venice Music, Inc.-La Cienega Music BMI
John Lee Hooker (guitar & vocal)
Alan Wilson (harmonica)
Henry Vestine (lead guitar)
Antonio de la Parra (bass)
Adolfo de la Parra (drums)

All tunes written by John Lee Hooker – BMI
* Written by John Lee Hooker and Bernard Bresman
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Produced by: Skip Taylor & Robert Hite, Jr.

Engineer: Dino Lappas

Recorded at: Liberty Studios, Los Angeles, California – May 1970

Mixdown Engineers: Martin Birch & Robert Zimbler
At: De Lane Lea Studios – London, England – Sept., 1970


Art Direction: Norman Seeff

Design: Ron Wolin

Cover Photography: Tom Tucker

Black and White Photography: Philip Melnick


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