Sold Date: August 12, 2022
Start Date: August 5, 2022
Final Price: $22.01 (USD)
Bid Count: 6
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You are bidding on a Vinyl LP from blues legend John Lee Hooker, “Live at Café Au Go-Go.”  This compilation album was recorded live in a small club in Greenwich Village in 1966, and features John Lee Hooker accompanied by Muddy Water’s backing band. (Drums; ; Electric Bass; ; Guitar;  , , ; Harmonica; ; Piano;  . 

The LP was originally released in 1967 on ABC Records, and this appears to be original issue. We purchased this item in the 1970’s, played it (and enjoyed it!), and it has been sitting in our home (vertically) for the last few decades. 

The LP is in VG+ condition; looking very clean. The LP cover is in VG condition, but does show signs of wear, and has a small punch hole in the upper right corner of the album cover.  Please remember that this album was well taken care of, but it was played as part of our record collection decades ago.  We have tried to show the good and the bad on the photos included with this listing.

This item has been stored at room temperature, in a smoke free home.  Please see photos of actual item being sold. 

 “Hooker's appearance on the same bill with  at this trendy mid-'60s nightclub pressed Waters and his band into service as John Lees backup band of the evening. Of course, ' brand of blues was far more developed structurally compared to Hooker's droning monochord style, and the perpetual stylistic clash is what largely fuels this 1966 live session, the audio equivalent of the recalcitrant child being dragged by the scruff of their neck. The musical glue that keeps the lid on throughout the performance is 's piano. Providing spot-on fills when Hooker frequently ignores the next logical chord change while simultaneously steering the three-electric-guitar attack of the band (, , and ) back into John Lee Hooker land when the Boogie Man goes off on another errant rhythmic or structural bent,  makes this session very special. "I'm Bad Like Jesse James" (originally "I'm Mad Again") takes the original storyline from the Vee-Jay version and amps up the foreboding violence level to a nasty degree. The patented Hooker boogie gets trotted out for "She's Long, She's Tall (She Weeps Like a Willow Tree)," and the ' band ropes him in to almost conform to standard 12-bar changes, even though he never changes the one-chord pattern on his guitar. Two slow blues, "When My First Wife Left Me" and "Heartaches and Misery" (the last sporting a slide guitar solo from ), both keep the band largely reeled into a monochord pattern, but Hooker's vocals are so impassioned it's a minor concern. A romping "One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer" is next up, followed by three slow ones in a row, "I Don't Want No Trouble," "I'll Never Get Out of These Blues Alive," and "Seven Days," all full of the anger and longing that mark his best work and putting a fitting capper to a historic blues summit”.