T.B. Sheets - John Lee Hooker

[ztone22]

This is the blues, most everything else called that, is bullshit...

[sun10lion]

I had this album when I was in high school. I'm 56 years old. When I was 18 my boyfriend worked for a band called "Sound Hole" they used to play back up for Van Morrison & they used to jam with John Lee all the time. Don't put John Lee down as Van looked up to John Lee.

[Manu9078]

@sun10lion that's so cool!!! Which one was your boyfriend?? I know that theres a vid or two here on youtube that has van playing with soundhole. Live at the orphanage I believe it's called

[Goatoftheforest]

One of the most under-appreciated artists ever

[Hoodooswamp]

This is from the live album "The Cream". Recorded in 1977, just after Elvis died.

[jakeizlove]

Thanks so much for posting this song!! Been looking a long, long time for it.

[smokydogjoe]

I love this...i was listening to Van's T.B. Sheets earlier tuesday so was thinking about uploading the song to my channel...and then The Boogie Man comes along.

now i must find this album for my blues collection!!! Thanks finkin!

[kamsack]

He needs to speed this up a bit

[drycreamer]

@kamsack

It's a poor decision to speed up the blues...

[bubbaz88]

I'd like to thank finkin for posting this. What a great performance! Heard this on the radio and was happy to find it on utube. I think once an artist hits this level "worrying" about what's what's is a waste of "brain time". I'm thankful to be able to hear and enjoy an amazing performance. There's so many places in the damn universe that you can't even get a decent radio station!!! Hell there's whole galaxies that are living the blues but have no music to express it........

[jimmy128100]

@bubbaz88

Try on line WZLX HD2 "Radio Mojo".

[ColtonCernyMusic]

This is hardly a cover of T.B. Sheets. I mean its a great jam but the only thing it has to do with Van's version is that John Borrowed the phrase/title "T.B. Sheets". The lyrics and story are completley different and are told from different points of view. Personally i prefer Van's version way more but again I still think this is pretty damn good

[monkeytown1000]

@ColtonCernyMusic

Well where did Van The Man get the idea to write a song about illness called 'TB Sheets'? Maybe from 'TB Blues', a song blues muso Victoria Spivey was singing in the 1920s? (There's a clip on YT of her doing it in the '60s) also covered by Champion Jack Dupree & Jimmie Rodgers in the '30s.

Not that it matters....

[dave10524]

John Lee was a big influence in early Van Morrisons style of phrasing, it was most evident in Van's phrasing of this song

[laurenmargaux]

@dave10524

Van Morrison wrote this in 1967; JLH covered it on a 1973 album.

[crippleslayer]

i hate when i cant find the origionals on youtube but instead find only covers, whats up with that

[birdman404]

rare song!!

[bodzia9]

cZY KTO ZE SLUCHACZY WIE ZNA KNOWS CO TYO DOBRA (THE BEST MUSIC? )

[shutemdwn]

i like some of hooker's stuff, but is it just me or is alot of his stuff a little lazy? i can feel his blues, but seems like he could do a little more in alot of songs.

[PhuqueU]

That's the sound of heroin my friend.

You can hear it in the lives of many an artist.

Some of Guns n' Roses, can get obvious too. Still sounds good though.

[shutemdwn]

hmm, perhaps. never thought of that.

[Tubyubber]

@shutemdwn less is more.