Body Electric

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On Body Electric, Steve Roach returns to his chromium roots, or at least strips away some of the dirt that's gathered on them over the years. While it's not quite the sequencer dervish of early albums like Empetus, it does shift the timbral focus from the organic rhythms and textures to the electronic techno sound. He's joined on this album by Chicago-based electronica artist Vir Unis. Together these sonic alchemists create a world full of trance rhythms and atmospheres that swirl like a lava pool. The opening "Born of Fire" establishes their modus operandi of head-snapping electro-voodoo grooves with Omar Faruk Tekbelik's ney (Turkish flute) calling out like a lost soul in the maelstrom. From there, it's into the deep as the Roach-Unis world closes in around you. Walt Whitman sang the body electric. Steve Roach and Vir Unis plug you right in. --John Diliberto

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Body Electric

Tracks:

Flying High
Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine
Death Sound
Porpoise Mouth
Section 43
Super Bird
Sad And Lonely Times
Love
Bass Strings
The Masked Marauder
Grace

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Given their origins, both geographically (San Francisco) and stylistically (founder Joe McDonald and lead guitarist Barry Melton first hooked up in a jug band), it wasn't surprising that the ragtag Fish sounded like an acid-soaked, plugged-in folk band when they debuted in '67. Simultaneously the most political and funniest of all the Northern California bands, the Fish's yippie-hippie philosophy was reflected in songs like "Superbird" (about Lyndon Johnson), "Flying High" (about getting you-know-what), and the bluesy free love saga, "Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine." That they could periodically wax serious as well (the wide-angled instrumental "Section Forty Three" and the moody "Bass Strings") only added more bite to their satiric pungency. --Billy Altman

Customer Reviews:

Whoah there........2006-11-08

This is hands down, the best album of all time!!!! Sounds best on vinyl.

A Masterpiece.......2006-03-29

Wow! What to say about this highly entertaining and great piece of music. So, the Commie Pinko band can really rock! Everyone (conservative that is) back in the sixties thought of these guys as communists and agitators. Funny thing is they only had a few political songs. The rest make some of the greatest psychedelic music to come out of San Francisco.

I remember seeing this album in the record stores and always wanted to get it but just never did. I ended up getting Feel Like I'm Fixin' To Die instead. Now that album is fantastic... but we are talking about this one.

Some 30 odd years later, I finally get a copy of the CD. Wow! The tunes are mostly blues based and Barry and David have incredible guitar chops. I particularly like their minor key runs and the fuzz guitar. This group of guys had some real chemistry and I don't know about the third album, but this one and the Fixin' album are just incredible. Favorites are Death Sound, Flying High, just to name a few. Death Sound is how psychedelic blues should be played! When I think back on it, I can hear a lot of Barry Melton and David Cohen influence in my guitar playing.

Highly recommended.

Waiting for the remaster.......2006-03-11

This album is an all time classic, as it is, but would be amazing if it were remastered. Come on Joe, get with it.
As a side note, I melted a hole in my first copy while trying to read the song titles on the album by the light of a lit stick of incense as the record was spinning around on the turntable.
Ahhhh, those were the days...........

Psychedelia's greatest moment was a miraculous fluke.......2004-11-16

Have you ever wondered why ELECTRIC MUSIC is a masterpiece and why all of their subsequent records are absolute crap? Yes, they obviously dried up too soon. But there's a big reason why they dried up too soon. Turns out The Boys lost their religion. Consider the following dialog:

From CJ FISH ON SATURDAY NIGHT [1968] by Richard Goldstein: "I asked him why his music had changed. He straightened up slowly and took off his hat. 'See, we're not what we thought we were.'/'How so?'/'Well, 2 years ago, we believed in music like a god. If you're gonna get into a heavy acid trip, you're gonna get religious. If you stop taking acid, you stop being religious.'/'Our audience knew we got stoned and we knew they got stoned and it all worked in a big circle', Barry added./'Yeah, but music's nothing to believe in. I mean, it's just sound.'/'Do you feel like quitting now?'/'No, I still dig playing. If it got really bad, I couldn't even get up on the stage. But today, the only emotion I associate with music is pleasure. There used to be all kinds of...well...connotations.'"

A lot of people use music to drown out the silence of God. I wish they'd realize that the silence of God is merely the space between the notes. As you can hear in this record's last track: GRACE. My favorite moment in GRACE is Joe's descending delivery of the phrase "every day colored gold". No--wait. I take that back. My favorite moment comes after that. When either Melton or Cohen (I can't remember which) plucks those 4 perfect eerie notes that accompany the phrase "gold our love".

Melton & Cohen are also responsible for my fave passage on the entire record. The guitar section in THE MASKED MARAUDER. Specifically, the churning first part of it. It's a lysergic shade of melancholia.

Profound sadness is also present in the final section of SECTION 43. You hear a hard-to-identify instrumental timbre that sounds like a faint radio signal from outer space. The signal strengthens and it turns out to be Joe's harmonica.

One Thing To His Credit.......2004-07-02

I say this as honest as I can this is one of the most annoying albums ever released. There's no real originality to it at all just alot of blues music. If you heard one blues artist you've heard them all. The only thing different is they have an annoying organ, or keyboard, but remind me never to buy the brand. It just cuts me to the core, and makes me feel so melancholy. To me this is just another San Francisco band that decided to record music played while stoned out of thier minds. If this is for the mind and body sorry my body's supposed to be a temple. Of course strike 2 is the blasted harmonica playing. Having an annoying organ is bad enough, but now you throw a harmonica into the mix you've gone too far. "Section 43" while annoying is rather creative in a macbre sense. I've pictured the little guitar interlude where I get the sensation of walking into a lovely garden, and following where my heart leads the sun is out, and I keep walking along, and spot a lovely girl, and pursue her, and I go further and further without a fear in the world as the sun's shining, but then I'm deep in the woods, and the dark clouds roll in; I rather not tread there again. Anyway I'll stick with the "Feel Like I'm Fixing To Die Rag". I love kazoos. Country Joe knew what he was talking about when writing that song after all he did do time in the navy. That would be one thing to his credit. Otherwise I'm left with the decision to see which was worse; this album, or his forgettable 1971 movie "Gasssss".

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Sophomore still lacks a pivotal glue, but certainly compelling enough for fans
I love this album...you might not
Brief Glimpses of Greatness
Weather Report Sings The Body Electric.
WR Album as Fusion-Jazz Futurism!

I Sing the Body Electric
Weather Report
Manufacturer: Sony
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Release Date: 1990-04-20

Tracks:

Unknown Soldier
The Moors
Crystal
Second Sunday in August
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Surucucu
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Sophomore still lacks a pivotal glue, but certainly compelling enough for fans .......2007-02-13

Weather Report's second outing does not rise much above the futile talent and aimless compositions that plagued the first release of achieving anything more then microcosms of conceptual brilliance. Here, the emotional aspects are still seriously downplayed, rarely treating us to anything more then the splattering of many creative ideas irresponsibly thrown together in an unconvincing whole. There is a bit more hint of cohesion lurking around, but by and large the groups insistence on overdoing every tiny space with eclectic, self conscious instrumentation still far outweighs the songs they seem focused on developing, as witnessed, thankfully, listening to the solidly foreshadowing final track.

I love this album...you might not.......2006-03-05

Wayne Shorter and Joe Zawinul were arguably the two geniuses most responsible for Miles Davis's development from the mid-sixties into his electric period that revolutionized jazz in the seventies. Shorter constantly pushed the music forward with his adventurous compositions for Davis's "second great quintet" (some fantastic music there) and participated in "In a Silent Way" and "Bitches Brew" which launched fusion. Zawinul was the mastermind behind many compositions in the electric Miles period and helped define the different sounds that were to come from keyboardists in this style. Then the two left Miles to do things their own way, and thus they started Weather Report. Their first album, self-titled, was filled with fascinating quick sketches of new musical ideas capitalizing on the new palette of sounds that came from electronics. This album continued those experiments, but in a more developed and profound way. "Unknown Soldier" in particular is a masterpiece in angular, unconventional composition that manages to be beautiful and very challenging. "The Moors" features an appearance by guitarist Ralph Towner who plays an improvised introduction filled with ideas and lines nobody had ever thought of before, while managing to be extremely funky in some spots. I read that Towner was practicing some ideas for his intro, and Zawinul was concerned that he would be overly self-conscious when actually being recorded, so they recorded Towner practicing for the intro without his knowledge. It was good enough that they actually used his run-through, and when he finally said "okay, I'm ready," they told him he was already done.

The second half of the album is edited down from a performance in Tokyo, and the energy of the band in a live setting is astounding. They do an electrifying version of "Directions," the tune Zawinul wrote for Miles which became Miles's signature piece during his electric period. There's something angularly funky and otherworldly about this very simple melody and the way they play it.

The unfortunate thing about this album is expectations after the fact. Weather Report had only a cult following at this time, so the sound associated with this band from their later recordings is nowhere near what this album sounds like. This music is a lot closer to electric Miles, though it backs off a bit from the rock rhythms and focuses more on the headier aspects of the electronics. As a result, the music is very esoteric and difficult to approach even from familiarity with later Weather Report. If you find the description of this album interesting and want to appreciate it, explore Miles in the late sixties up through "In a Silent Way" and "Bitches Brew," and then get the first Weather Report album, the self-titled one. This is very deep, exploratory music that is completely enthralling for those people who know how to listen to it. Become one of those people.

Brief Glimpses of Greatness.......2005-07-02

This album has its moments, but what moments they are! The original idea of Weather Report, in Joe Zawinul's words, was that "we're always soloing and never soloing"--meaning that the music was improvised, but the improvisations were geared toward the overall composition, not flashy displays of show-off technical virtuosity. Added to this was Zawinul's strong compositional bent; for him, a composition wasn't just head/solo/head, i.e. a vehicle for soloing, it was a setting, a story, a drama, albeit a very "atmospheric" tale, but that was part of the style of the era. Listen to Zawinul's "Pharoah's Dance" on "Bitches Brew" and you'll hear the same approach at work.

The tales on the studio side of this album are very often achingly beautiful, but those moments can be fleeting. "Unknown Soldier" is remarkably lyrical and moving, at least before and after the "bombs away" middle section which is kind of literal and corny. "The Moors" is great, as is "Second Sunday in August": they both create lush, mysterious worlds that pull you in but remain for me, even after 30+ years of listening to them, elusive. "Crystal" might be OK, but whenever I listen to it I get distracted and laugh because I recall Zawinul's comments about Miroslav's playing an upright bass with a wah-wah: he said it sounded like a sick cat, and it was one of the reasons Zawinul fired him from the band.

The live side contains none of the lyricism of the studio side. No doubt the band is playing in top form, though Zawinul's got his Rhodes up to full distort level throughout, and Eric Gravatt, while energetic, sounds sloppy. It's more like what a traditional jazz afficiando would like, a high-energy and virtuosic display, but it's a frustration for me: the studio side started to approach a level of compositional development approaching the cinematic/narrative ("movies in your head", which is what Hendrix said he was trying to get his music to be like), which was a major leap in jazz, but it was subsequently forsaken by the band for its "funk you up" approach.

Anyway, get the album, if you don't like the studio concepts you'll be impressed by the live performance, and if you like the studio concept, there are enough good moments to make it worthwhile. And maybe you'll like both approaches.

Two bits of trivia:

1. The album title was from Walt Whitman, not Ray Bradury.

2. The introduction to the live side, the chat by the Japanese master of ceremonies, was sampled and used by rap group A Tribe Called Quest on their song "Mr. Mohammed".

Weather Report Sings The Body Electric........2003-12-27

Weather Report's second album "I Sing The Body Electric" is quite different from anything else the band released in their entire career. Released in 1972, the album is probably the most experimental and varied of all the Weather Report releases. The style is not neccesarily Jazz nor is it Fusion. It would even be a stretch to categorize it as a Rock album. Above all, "I Sing The Body Electric" is can definitely be categorized as a Music album for the album indeed contains some great music.
The first half of the album contains four studio pieces. "Unknown Soldier" (composed by keyboardist Joe Zawinul) opens the album with a haunting choir of vocalists and an eerie sci-fi-like theme performed by sax player Wayne Shorter and guests Hubert Laws on flute, Andrew White on English horn and Wilmer Wise on trumpet. The overall arrangement is similar to that of Big Band music only the feeling is definitely close to psychedelic with the addition of alien-like sounds coming from Zawinul's newly acquired ARP synthesizer.
"The Moors" (composed by saxophonist Wayne Shorter) once again features the talents of guest musicians. This time, it's from guitarist Ralph Towner from the band Oregon. The sound of the guitar is rare in Weather Report's music since the band itself did not have a guitarist. After a slightly blues-based intro from Towner, the music shifts gears with a pounding tribal drumbeat with a sax melody that is definitely Middle Eastern-influenced. There is also some great drum and percussion work from band members Eric Gravatt and Dom Um Romao here.
"Crystal" (composed by bassist Miroslav Vitous) is an etherial piece of music with a wandering sax-line from Shorter along with Zawinul's spaced-out keyboards and a droning low-end/whining high-end bass part by Vitous. This is definitely a highly improvisational piece that shows of Weather Report's experimental side.
The studio material finishes off with another Joe Zawinul original "Second Sunday In August". This is a loosely-played tone poem which features Zawinul on Hammond organ as well as acoustic piano. The overall structure of the piece is based on simplicity and has patterns of long-held lead lines from Shorter's sax and Vitous's bass.
The second half of the album was recorded live in January 1972 in Tokyo. This is a heavily edited version of the first half of the band's Japanese-only release "Live In Tokyo". The music in its original context ran for 45-minutes and is edited down to 23 for this album. This Tokyo performance captured the band at their most fierce and at their rawest. Joe Zawinul's keyboard work was especially experimental as he used a distortion box, ring modulator and wah-wah pedal on his electric piano. Miroslav Vitous's bass work is also quite unique as he amplifies his acoustic bass using a wah-wah while playing with with a bow.
The second half of this album is just a brief sampling of what is on the Japanese "Tokyo" release and with its obvious and somewhat abrupt edits on the this album, this gives all the more reason to buy "Live In Tokyo" in addition to "I Sing The Body Electric".
This album has since gone on to become a well-appreciated work in Weather Report's large catalog. No other Weather Report sounds as spaced-out, experimental, raw or raucous as this one. From the varied stylings of its studio recordings to its free-form no-holds-barred live half, "I Sing The Body Electric" is an early definitive Weather Report masterwork. Fans who are familiar with the band's later work (ie: Heavy Weather, Night Passage etc.) may want to test this album before buying it. This music is definitely not for everyone. However, if you're one who can appreciate a pioneering band who recorded themselves while trying to find their musical niche, this is definitely an album of high interest.

WR Album as Fusion-Jazz Futurism!.......2003-06-14

Weather Reports' "I Sing the Body Electric" (whose title was borrowed from sci-fi writer Ray Bradbury) was a telling snapshot of the shape of what fusion-jazz was to beome in the very near future. Unlike the group's later successes -- "Black Market" and "Heavy Weather" -- ISBE lacks the compositional structure and instrumental stylings that would eventually define the group's signature sound. One cannot help but discern, from the album's very outset, that it is a ponderous effort, searching, trying to find something that the group had yet to nail down. But the basic elements are there, albeit unrealized: Zawinul's keyboarding, Shorter's sax riffs, etc. This album can be forgiven for its lack of direction because it is, after all, an improvizational effort which is the hallmark of jazz. It is the work of several talented alums from the "Miles Davis School of Jazz Experimentation" leaving the nest, trying their own wings. For this reason too the "live" tracks on the album make sense: the club-like setting that lends itself to instrumental risk-taking is, again, a cornerstone of the jazz genre. In later albums the group would begin to jell, both as composers and as band members. Eventually, WE would come to stand at the top of a rarified heap of other j-fusion artists, having finely honed its sound with each subsequent recording. In the world of pop, the "Beatles" cut their musical teeth in Hamburg before they finally defined what would become the "Mersey Sound." Weather Report's "proving ground" was the grooves of this originally vinyl effort. As another reviewer here said, do not expect this album to be an early version of "Birdland" or anything that would come later. But if you can appreciate it for what it then was -- the musical testament of a group of master craftsmen, mainly soloists, searching for their collective identity -- then this album is an important bit of j-fusion history that is worth its price if for no other reason than jazz preservation and posterity. Like Miles' "Kind of Blue" and "The Birth of the Cool," ISBE is the sort of album that Noah might have taken on the Ark with him so that the shape of things to come would not be lost, but rather survive so that it could bloom in some future time.

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Beautiful wind ensemble music

Celebrations

Manufacturer: Citadel
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 1995-11-20

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March Carillon
Chorale And Alleluia
A Movement For Rosa
Chorale Prelude: Be Thou My Vision
Celebrations - For Chorus And Wind Ensemble: Stranger
Celebrations - For Chorus And Wind Ensemble: I Celebrate Myself
Celebrations - For Chorus And Wind Ensemble: You Who Celebrate Bygones
Celebrations - For Chorus And Wind Ensemble: There Is That In Me
Celebrations - For Chorus And Wind Ensemble: Sing Me The Universal
Celebrations - For Chorus And Wind Ensemble: Flaunt Out, O Sea
Celebrations - For Chorus And Wind Ensemble: I Sing The Body Electric
Celebrations - For Chorus And Wind Ensemble: Clear Midnight
Celebrations - For Chorus And Wind Ensemble: Voyage
Variants On An Advent Hymn: Theme And Variation I
Variants On An Advent Hymn: Variation II
Variants On An Advent Hymn: Variation III
Variants On An Advent Hymn: Variation IV
Themes From 'Greenbushes'
Escape From Plato's Cave: The Cave, The Struggle And The Man From The Light!
Escape From Plato's Cave: Message Of The Man (The Fragile Heart)
Escape From Plato's Cave: Escape...Into The Light!

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Beautiful wind ensemble music.......2003-06-29

This treasure of a CD features some beautiful wind ensemble music, which really should receive more attention in the mainstream. Not your typical Sousa CD, this features the wind ensemble at its best, with both sections of the full, gorgeous ensemble sound and solo sections featuring the individual tone colors that contribute to the unique ensemble sound. The emotional capacity of this type of ensemble is huge, and this CD demonstrates that well. I would certainly recommend this CD to any lovers of band music and classical music, particularly those who enjoy the Romantic and 20th century composers who tend to use the winds to a fuller extent.

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You Must Buy This Album!
Enter the realm of the sub-concious
music for joining the electronic tribe
Yet another direction for the constantly evolving Roach
new and old school ambient

Body Electric
Steve Roach & Vir Unis
Manufacturer: Projekt Records
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On Body Electric, Steve Roach returns to his chromium roots, or at least strips away some of the dirt that's gathered on them over the years. While it's not quite the sequencer dervish of early albums like Empetus, it does shift the timbral focus from the organic rhythms and textures to the electronic techno sound. He's joined on this album by Chicago-based electronica artist Vir Unis. Together these sonic alchemists create a world full of trance rhythms and atmospheres that swirl like a lava pool. The opening "Born of Fire" establishes their modus operandi of head-snapping electro-voodoo grooves with Omar Faruk Tekbelik's ney (Turkish flute) calling out like a lost soul in the maelstrom. From there, it's into the deep as the Roach-Unis world closes in around you. Walt Whitman sang the body electric. Steve Roach and Vir Unis plug you right in. --John Diliberto

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You Must Buy This Album!.......2005-08-06

I admit I do not like all of what Steve Roach produces, but this album is the cream of the crop in its genre. Really special stuff. Great for mental voyages or just relaxing.

Enter the realm of the sub-concious.......2004-09-20

This is a stunning piece of music craftmanship. It blurs the line between the concious and the sub-concious. If thoughts had a voice, this is how they would sound. You'll discover this CD everytime you listen to it. Grab a solitary place, slap on your headphones and let Steve Roach take on a ride. Tracks# 1 & #9 are awesome.

music for joining the electronic tribe.......1999-09-18

Not since Steve's second release of 'Empetus' has there been a pure electronic charge of grooves, trances, and soundworlds. On this CD, Steve has been joined with new comer Vir Unis, a trance and groove master we'll be hearing much more about. Together the two have created a collage of electronic tribal soundscapes, layered and looped with unique synthesizers and percussion only heard upon alien worlds. Unlike Steve's ambient material this recording brings new color to electronic/tribal music. Be on the watch for a follow up to this CD. The two artists will soon release a sequal to 'Body electric' in the year 2000 titled 'Blood Machine'. As for 'Body Electric' this is a disc for all seeking to listen to new music with new ears. ST

Yet another direction for the constantly evolving Roach.......1999-09-09

Since I discovered Steve Roach in 1995, I've been fascinated by his unending desire to collaborate with other artists willing to push the boundaries of electronic music (calling Roach "New Age" is almost as silly as referring to Shania Twain as "Country"). With THE MAGNIFICENT VOID, Roach began a new era of soundworlds that has culminated with BODY ELECTRIC, which is the best album I've heard in 1999. As each track segues into the next, an entire inner universe opens up and it feels as if I've slipped into a pool of utter Bliss. This album simply gets better and better every time I listen to it, which is amazing considering some of the landmark work that this artist has created in the last fifteen years. If you aren't into rhythmically charged music, I would certainly say to skip it, but it's not technically techno... nor is it purely moody ambient dreamscapes. It fits nicely into a netherworld of alien sounds and would be the perfect soundtrack for a 21st century rave.

new and old school ambient.......1999-07-17

Well I never heard ov Vir Unis before but hir certanily knows here soundscapes. I was afraid that this would be a uncomfortable mesh of electronica and Steve Roach drones in the background, but alas, the organic and inorganic build perfectly together, making the cd less of a collection of songs, but a complete musical voyage into the upper levels of the mind

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24-bit remastered reissue packaged in a digipak of the jazz fusion band's 1971 album. Sony.

The Complete, Vol. 5 - Detroit 1952-1953

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The Complete, Vol. 1 - Detroit 1948-1949

ASIN: B0001ADBEQ
Release Date: 2004-03-09

Tracks:

Where Did You Stay Last Night
I Got Drunk
I Got Drunk
Cold Chills
Rock Me Mama
Rock Me Mama
Rock Me Mama
I Come to You Baby
Someone to Love
Someone to Love
Walking the Boogie
Walking the Boogie
Sugar Mama
I Don't Want Your Money
Hey Baby, You Look Good to Me
Journey
Bluebird
Love Blues
Apologize
Lonely Boy Boogie
Please Don't Go
Worried Life Blues
Down at the Landing

Tracks:

It Hurts Me So - John Lee Hooker,
I Got Eyes for You - John Lee Hooker,
Key to the Highway - John Lee Hooker,
I Got the Key - John Lee Hooker,
Bluebird Blues - John Lee Hooker,
It's Time for Lovin' to Be Done - John Lee Hooker,
That's All Right - John Lee Hooker, Eddie Kirkland
It's Been a Long Time Baby
Ride 'Til I Die
I Tried Hard
Rock House Boogie
It's Stormin' and Rainin'
Let's Talk It Over
Cool Little Car
Lookin' for a Woman
It's My Own Fault
Juke Bug
Blues for Big Town
Women and Money
Boogie Rambler
No More Doggin'
Love Money Can't Buy
Please Take Me Back

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The Complete, Vol. 2 - Detroit 1949
John Lee Hooker
Manufacturer: Body & Soul
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0006TN8GI
Release Date: 2005-05-17

Tracks:

Too Much Boogie
Need Somebody
I Wonder Little Darling
Jump Me
My Baby Don't Love Me
Blue Monday (I Ain't Got Nobody)
Misbelieving Baby (My Baby Put Me Down)
Love My Baby
Wobbling Baby
Pouring Down Rain
Goin' South
Real Real Gone
Lovin' Guitar Man
Stuttering Blues
Hook's Boogie (I Ain't Got Nobody)
Sleepy Blues (Misbelieving Baby)
I Came to See You Baby
I'm a Boogie Man
Down Child
Gotta Boogie
Bad Boy
Half a Stranger
You Receive Me

Tracks:

Baby You Ain't No Good
Baby I'm Gonna Miss You
Shake Holler and Run
Taxi Driver
I'm Ready
I Need Love So Bad
Hug and Squeeze
I Love You Baby
Syndicator (The Syndicate)
I'm Mad
Everybody's Blues
Anybody's Blues (I Love You Baby)
Boogie Rambler
Locked up in Jail (Prison Blues)
I Keep the Blues
I Been Done So Wrong
No More Doggin' (No More Foolin')
I Do Like I Please
Don't Trust Nobody
Nothin' But Trouble
I Need Love So Bad
Odds Against Me (Backbiters and Syndicators)

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