Boom! Boom! ‘John Lee Hooker Live at Montreux 1983 & 1990’ Released November 6

On November 6th, The John Lee Hooker Estate and Universal Music will release John Lee Hooker Live at Montreux 1983 & 1990 as a 2-LPset, digital video & digital audio.

Four-time Grammy Award winner and Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, John Lee Hooker will forever be hailed as a legend of the blues genre. His storied career continues its impact on modern music even today–with fans spanning generations and transcending borders. Hooker was responsible for moulding the blues into a sound that was entirely his own, dispensing with 12-bar blues in favour of an intensely deep, funky groove.

Located in Switzerland, the Montreux Jazz Festival is one of the world’s biggest and longest-running jazz festivals. Live at Montreux witnesses John Lee Hooker deliver two blistering performances filmed at the festival in 1983 and 1990. He was joined by The Coast to Coast Blues Band, covering an impressive set of hits from across his storied career including ‘Boom Boom’, ‘Crawlin’ King Snake’ and his very first single ‘Boogie Chillen’’- the latter expanded to an epic 13-person Jam on the 1983 set, featuring guitarist Luther Allison, harmonica legend Sugar Blue, and a horn section. For his triumphant return to Montreux in 1990, Hooker added an additional guitar and sax to the line-up, as well as female vocalist Vala Cupp.“The Hook” infuses his set with songs from his 1989 Grammy winning album, The Healer, including the hypnotic title track.

John Lee Hooker’s first single, ‘Boogie Chillen’’ rose to#1 on the R&B chart in 1949, selling over a million copies. Hooker was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1980and the Rock and Roll Hall of Famein1991.In 2008, “Boogie Chillen’’ was added to the National Recording Registry by the Library Of Congress as a song that is” culturally, historically, or aesthetically important, and/or inform(s) or reflect(s) life in the United States.” ‘Boogie Chillen’’ and ‘Boom Boom’ were both inducted into the Grammy Hall Of Fame and both songs are also included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s list of The 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll.

John Lee Hooker Live at Montreux 1983 & 1990 [2LP] TrackListing:

Live at Montreux 1983 – LP1

Side One

  1. It Serves Me Right To Suffer
  2. I Didn’t Know
  3. Hi-Heel Sneakers
  4. If You Take Care Of Me, I’ll Take Care Of You
  5. Boom Boom

Side Two

  1. Worried Life Blues
  2. I’m Jealous
  3. Crawlin’ King Snake
  4. Boogie Chillen’

 

Live at Montreux 1990 – LP2

Side Three

  1. John Lee Hooker Introduction
  2. Mabel
  3. I’m In The Mood
  4. Crawlin’ King Snake
  5. BabyLee

Side Four

  1. It Serves Me Right To Suffer
  2. Boom Boom
  3. The Healer
  4. Boogie Chillen’