John Lee Hooker Chronological CD Discography
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| Date | Title | Summary |
| 1960 | House of the Blues | Chess recordings from 1951-1952 (mainly solo) |
| 1960 | That's My Story (Sings The Blues) | Riverside album with 1960 recordings (most with bass and drums) |
| 1961 | John Lee Hooker Plays and Sings The Blues | Chess recordings from 1950-1952 (solo) |
| 1962 | Live at Sugar Hill | Galaxy album (a.k.a. Boogie Chillun on Fantasy), with live 1962 recordings (solo) |
| 1964 | Burning Hell | Riverside album with 1959 recordings (solo) |
| 196? | ...and Seven Nights | Verve Folkways album with 1964/5 recordings (featuring The Groundhogs) |
| 1966 | It Serve You Right to Suffer | Impulse album with 1965 recordings (with band) |
| 1966 | The Real Folk Blues | Chess album with 1966 recordings (with band) |
| 1967 | Live at the Cafe au Go-Go | Bluesway album with 1966 live recordings (with Muddy Waters' band) |
| 1967 | Urban Blues | Bluesway album with 1967 recordings (with band) |
| 1969 | Simply The Truth | Bluesway album with 1968 recordings (with band) |
| 1969 | That's Where It's At! | Stax album with 1961 recordings (with bass and second guitar) |
| 1970 | If You Miss 'Im...I Got 'Im | Bluesway album with 1969 recordings (with band including Earl Hooker) |
| 1971 | Hooker 'n' Heat | Liberty double album with 1970 recordings (some solo, some w. harmonica, some w. band) |
| 1971 | Endless Boogie | ABC double album with 1970 recordings (with band) |
| 1971 | Coast to Coast Blues Band | United Artists album (a.k.a. Anywhere - Anytime - Anyplace) with 1948-1951 recordings (mainly solo) |
| 1972 | Never Get Out of These Blues Alive | ABC album with 1971 recordings (with band) |
| 1972 | Live at Soledad Prison See entry for Live at the Cafe au Go-Go |
ABC album with 1972 live recordings (with band) |
| 1972 | Don't Turn Me from Your Door | Atlantic album (a.k.a. Detroit Special) with 1953 and 1961 recordings (mainly solo, some bass) |
| 1974 | Free Beer and Chicken | ABC album with recordings 1971-74 (with band, plus some brass overdubs) |
| 1976 | Alone | Tomato album with 1976 live recordings (solo) |
| 1977 | The Cream | Tomato album with 1977 live recordings (with band) |
| 1992 | Graveyard Blues | Specialty recordings from 1948-1950 (mainly solo, some harmonica) |
| 1992 | The Vee Jay Years, 1955-1964 | Charly 6CD box with 1955-1964 recordings (with band and solo) |
| 1993 | Everybody's Blues | Specialty recordings from 1950-1954 (several solo tracks, some with drums, piano, sax) |
| 1993 | The Legendary Modern Recordings | Modern recordings from 1948-1953 (mainly solo) |
| 19?? | Blues for Big Town | Chess recordings from 1950-1953/4 (mainly solo, a couple with band) |
| 1995 | Alternative Boogie | 3CD set of (primarily) 1948-1952 recordings (mainly solo) |
| 2000 | Boogie Chillen | Early recordings, including 'undubbed' King sides for first time (mainly solo, a couple with harp) |
Entries are sorted by
original release date, click here to sort entries alphabetically by title.
Note: This is not a 'complete' discography, but an 'in-progress' one. Perhaps it therefore isn't strictly a 'discography', but armed with this knowledge, I hope we can learn to live together. In general, I am adding entries to the tune of one or more per week, so my estimate is that it should be 'complete' by the turn of the millenium (i.e. the one after the next one - there are a lot of Hooker CD's out there!). I feel that the information that's there already is quite useful in its own right - it's certainly been useful to me! |
