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Boom Boom: Craft Recordings Reissues, Expands John Lee Hooker's "Burnin'"

January 25, 2023 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

John Lee Hooker Burnin

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On February 24, Craft Recordings has a date with The King of the Boogie.  That's the date the label will reissue John Lee Hooker's 1962 electric blues classic Burnin' in an expanded mono/stereo CD edition and in various vinyl pressings just in time for its 60th anniversary.

Singer-guitarist Hooker recorded Burnin' for the Vee-Jay label in Chicago during one November 1961 session.  He was supported by the personnel who would later comprise Motown's legendary Funk Brothers house band including Mike Terry on baritone saxophone, Joe Hunter on piano, James Jamerson on bass, and Benny Benjamin on drums.  Another future Motown legend, Hank Cosby, played tenor saxophone, while early Funk Brother Larry Veeder supplied additional guitar.  The album yielded a top twenty R&B hit for Hooker, "Boom Boom."  It was one of only two songs in Hooker's career to reach the Billboard Hot 100; The Animals' subsequent cover would repeat the feat.  "Boom Boom" would fare even better decades later, when in 1992, it reached the top 20 of the U.K. Singles Chart thanks to its appearance in a jeans commercial!  Between 2007 and 2014, Big Head Todd and The Monsters' cover was heard every week as the theme song to the CBS-TV procedural NCIS: New Orleans.

Burnin' wasn't a one-trick pony, however.  In addition to "Boom Boom," the album produced by Vee-Jay's Calvin Carter also included such standouts as the swinging admonition to "Thelma," the spoken-word instructions to a "Drug Store Woman," and the offbeat "Keep Your Hands to Yourself" with its quotation of The Champs' "Tequila."  Hooker's sound would go on to inspire countless generations of guitarists and earn him inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Blues Hall of Fame, and Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Craft's upcoming reissues have been freshly remastered from the original analog tapes by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio.  The standard 180-gram vinyl LP features the 1962 stereo mix and is housed in a replica tip-on jacket. Limited edition color pressings will be available at Barnes and Noble (Flame Orange), independent record stores (Translucent Red), and JohnLeeHooker.com (Fuego Blend).  The CD edition, also available digitally (in standard and high-resolution), has both the original stereo and mono album mixes plus a previously unreleased alternate take of "Thelma" from the same November 1961 session.  The CD includes new liner notes by journalist Bill Dahl.

Want a preview of the remastered Burnin'?  "Boom Boom" is currently streaming in mono and stereo.  The reissues of Burnin' are all due from Craft Recordings on February 24.

John Lee Hooker, Burnin' (Vee-Jay VJLP/VSJR 1043, 1962 - reissued Craft Recordings, 2023)

LP (Stereo Mix Only): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

  1. Boom Boom (Stereo)
  2. Process (Stereo)
  3. Lost A Good Girl (Stereo)
  4. A New Leaf (Stereo)
  5. Blues Before Sunrise (Stereo)
  6. Let's Make It (Stereo)
  7. I Got A Letter (Stereo)
  8. Thelma (Stereo)
  9. Drug Store Woman (Stereo)
  10. Keep Your Hands To Yourself (Stereo)
  11. What Do You Say (Stereo)
  12. Thelma (Alternate Take) (*)
  13. Boom Boom (Mono)
  14. Process (Mono)
  15. Lost A Good Girl (Mono)
  16. A New Leaf (Mono)
  17. Blues Before Sunrise (Mono)
  18. Let's Make It (Mono)
  19. I Got A Letter (Mono)
  20. Thelma (Mono)
  21. Drug Store Woman (Mono)
  22. Keep Your Hands To Yourself (Mono)
  23. What Do You Say (Mono)

(*) previously unreleased alternate take

Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues Tags: John Lee Hooker

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JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, has released newly-curated collections produced by Joe from iconic artists such as Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Chet Atkins, and many others. He has contributed liner notes to reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray. Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.

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  1. Robert Lett says

    January 25, 2023 at 11:13 am

    That cover is so classic.

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