John Lee Hooker CD Discography - Live at the Cafe au Go-Go

	John Lee Hooker Live at the Cafe au Go-Go

Current:		Beat Goes On CD 39 (BGOCD39, 1995, U.K.)
Current:		MCA Records CD 11537 (MCAD-11537, 1996) Live at the Cafe au Go-Go (and Soledad Prison)
Original Release:		ABC-Bluesway LP 6002 (BLS 6002, 1967)

Specifications:		1 disc, 8/13 tracks, duration approx. 36 minutes and 68 minutes respectively, Stereo

Recorded:		Live at the Cafe au Go-Go, New York City, August 30th, 1966 (except 09 - 13, Live at Soledad Prison, June 11th, 1972)

Tracks:		01.	I'm Bad Like Jesse James [05:31] Bluesway LP 6002
		02.	She's Long, She's Tall (She Weeps Like a Willow Tree) [03:31] Bluesway LP 6002
		03.	When My First Wife Left Me [04:10] Bluesway LP 6002
		04.	Heartaches and Misery [05:24] Bluesway LP 6002
		05.	One Bourbon, One Scotch and One Beer [04:31] Bluesway LP 6002
		06.	I Don't Want No Trouble [04:22] Bluesway LP 6002
		07.	I'll Never Get Out of These Blues Alive [04:50] Bluesway LP 6002
		08.	Seven Days [04:08] Bluesway LP 6002
			Bonus Tracks (MCA)
		09.	What's the Matter Baby [03:48] ABC LP 761
		10.	Lucille [06:44] ABC LP 761
		11.	Boogie Everywhere I Go [09:02] ABC LP 761
		12.	Serve Me Right to Suffer [07:19] ABC LP 761
		13.	Bang Bang Bang Bang [04:28] ABC LP 761

References:		ABC-Bluesway LP 6002 Live at the Cafe au Go-Go (BLS 6002, 1967) ABC LP 761 Live at Soledad Prison (1972)

Personnel:		John Lee Hooker vocals; guitar Otis Spann piano Muddy Waters, Sammy Lawhorn, Luther Johnson guitars Mac Arnold bass Francis Clay drums Produced by Bob Thiele Engineered by Rudy Van Gelder All songs written by John Lee Hooker Cover painting & design by Byron Goto/Henry Epstein Original liner notes by Stanley Dance Additional MCA liner notes by Chris Morris MCA reissue produced by Andy McKaie MCA digitally remastered by Erick Labson (MCA Music Media Studios, North Hollywood, CA) MCA reissue art direction by Vartan MCA reissue design and typography by Michael Diehl MCA reissue photo research by Geary Chansley Additional personnel information regarding Live at Soledad Prison: John Lee Hooker vocals; guitar Luther Tucker, Charlie Grimes guitar Lex Silver bass Ken Swank drums John Lee Hooker Jnr. second vocal on Boogie Everywhere I Go Produced by Ed Michel Engineered by Baker Bigsby at Village Recorders Location recording equipment by Wally Heider Recording

Notes:		Harmonicist George Smith is often credited with playing on the Live at the Cafe au Go-Go tracks, but is inaudible. My brain is now a sort of frazzled sausage type creation, after trying to make out harmonica on some of the quieter passages, so don't buy it if you're a George Smith fan, unless you're a Hooker fan, too. In the draft copy of the Hooker entry in Blues Records 1943-1970 that I'm using as a reference, Les Fancourt claims that the Live at the Cafe au Go-Go tracks are not in fact live (presumably with the audience noise being overdubbed), but I haven't seen any evidence elsewhere to substantiate this yet. The Live at Soledad Prison tracks are all but the first two tracks, namely Superlover and I'm Your Crosscut Saw, from the original album. The omitted tracks do not feature John Lee Hooker on vocals, instead featuring John Lee Hooker Jnr. on vocals.

Online:		RealAudio 01-13: Tunes.COM


		INFORMATION SOURCES

Cover:		Borrowed from Tunes.COM

Details:		Most of the information gleaned from my MCA CD, and looking at the BGO CD in a shop. Some information from Les Fancourt's work.