Boogie Chillun - John lee hooker.

[brandonlace]

ZZ top, Slim Harpo, The Rolling Stones. It all comes back to this.

[Wretchedable]

la grange ;)

[tamarahndrsn]

ZZ Top must have listened to John Lee.....

[SUPERMARIOWORLD777]

SELL UR SOUL TO BE LIKE HOOKER

[48dodea]

you do not see many stores selling matching ties and socks anymore

[48dodea]

place obligatory nasty comment about bieber here

[snibbies411]

bob's country bunker...... lol

[ez8384]

heeeeeeey john )))))))))) great man ...

[quicktothe4]

Like many others - I heard this version a very long time ago and it got under my skin (1969!!) and has never really left me. I think it was on an E.P. - thats a single record with more than one track folks and we used to play it at 45r.p.m. -. yes it was long ago. One of the all time classics, it has been re-done, love the one with Clapton. So pleased to have found it again.

[fendertube72]

why cant people apriciate the true music like john lee and not justin beiber or lady gaga or all that musical disgrace?

[jacksondemarre]

What a great man

[meanbean1969]

great stuff

[krealillen1]

I heard papa tell mama, "let that boy boogie woogie... it's in him, and it got to come out"... And I felt so good, went on boogien just the same...

The greatest lyrical line of all time? I think it just may be

[TheGypsyBangles]

@krealillen1 definately my favourite line in ANY song. Love it! Best tune ever...

[mrsticks28]

I still have the original 45 rpm copy of this. Makes me want to go to "Henry's Swing Club"!

[WorldChallenge]

Play this on an electric bass and you have La Grange.

[mickeymousebiker1]

A Blues excorcism -- "It's in 'im -- 'an it's gotta come out." This music is true religion.

[themossbackman]

John Lee's best version of this song was recorded with Canned Heat. Fro the Hooker n Heat. The song is titled Boogie Chillin #2

[batmanlooksgood]

forget the studio sound, i like this RAW, packed into a niteclub on the south side of Chicago on a Saturday nite Blues...

[newfuckingwave]

simon lebon of duran duran brought me here. let that give you an idea of how far reaching this man's influence was

[jackthehatuk]

@newfuckingwave :-)

[rhythm2007mc]

Thanks for a Blues Classic ;)

[michael112168]

First, the thing that makes this song so special is that the tone of the lyrics are commensurately out of tune with JLH's guitar. I love it. I don't know if it was planned or intentional, but it's perfect. Second; is that it's just JLH doing his thing..... He was one of those very few individuals whose soul saw beyond the here and now, and had the ability to express it through a combination of their playing and vocals to take us all to a place of greater understanding.

[michael112168]

First, the thing that makes this song so special is that the tone of the lyrics are commensurately out of tune with JLH's guitar. I love it. I don't know if it was planned or intentional, but it's perfect. Second; is that it's just JLH doing his thing..... He was one of those very few individuals whose soul saw beyond the here and now, and had the ability to express it through a combination of their playing and vocals to take us all to a place of greater understaning.

[leftnutnamedchancey]

George Thorgood def. got his shit from him.

[acrata4ever]

he slapped towards the neck pulling up on the strings. he also tapped on a pallet with bottle caps attached to his shoes. sometimes he tapped with just a board and no bottle caps. sometimes he had bottle caps strung through the lace of one shoe that sounds like a tambourine.

[liquidfreak]

Let That Boy Boogie Woogie!!!

[JackVaningburg]

instrumental?

[KingRam33]

I love the John Lee Hooker one man records.

[coldharvest]

Who are the two deaf people who dislike this song?

[evilclunt]

I love this picture. So fucking cool.

[edcerc]

is that his foot? what is that sound?

[evilclunt]

@edcerc It's the slap of his hand against the guitar - the foot tapping shouldn't make a sound.

[edcerc]

@evilclunt ive heard a lot of recordings from him with audible foot tapping

[bluesboydude]

2 people don't like to boogie!

[hoopoe222]

It's available on a Spanish "Ace Records" compilation called 30 ANOS DE SOUL, BLUES Y ROCK'N'ROLL if that's any help to anyone

[Deborah9339]

This was in the "Blues Brothers" movie, is it on the soundtrack?

[jackthehatuk]

@Deborah9339 Although it was in the film i don't think it is actually on the soundtrack.

[jackthehatuk]

For anyone who is interested the album this version is on is on Amazon.

Boogie Man. Blues Collection. Every track on this album is 'Raw' they all have that great old sound.

Considering it was part of a magazine collection it is one of the best JLH albums i have. If you want that studio recorded clean sound don't bother thinking about this album.

[asquideatingdough]

@jackthehatuk That is an amazing cd. It got me into John Lee Hooker.

[dega723]

@Deborah9339 No it isn't. If you want to know all the tracks that were not on the official blues bros soundtrack, you can check the movie at imdb.com and click on soundtrack list at the bottom.

[cbennett926]

@Deborah9339

I believe that was Boom Boom?

When the Blues Brothers were getting the band back together and Aretha Franklin wouldn't let her husband join the band again? The seen took place at a soul food place and JLH was outside playing?

[dvsmind2001]

@Deborah9339 the song in the movie is 'Boom, Boom' and it is not on the soundtrack. If you are able to find the special edition of the film, the scene is about 3 minutes long, rather than the 1 minute in the original cut.

[NapalmWeed]

Where did you find this version of Boogie Chillun, do you know which album? I have been looking for this version since I first heard it when I was five.

[jackthehatuk]

@NapalmWeed Hi. I have been asked this before. The answer is below. Whatever album it originally came from is beyond me. Sorry.

[packard400]

@NapalmWeed ..this was relaeased on VeeJay records in 1959...its on the "I'm John Lee Hooker" album...(he did versions on other labels before this one)...and countless other ones later on... (I like this one the best, however..)

[jm0069]

@NapalmWeed How can you recall experiences as a five year old through sweet leaf and napalm?

[yodelersparadise]

@NapalmWeed Hi it's on Vee-Jay VJLP 1007 It must be 50 years old I still have it.

[homid24]

Yes. Blues Brothers, I love all singers long before the 2000's

[Moonspoon]

I wonder if there are people who just surf around the videos and randomly click on the dislike button. If that is the case then the two "dislikers" should be put to the wall against a firing squad. You really had to be deaf not to hear the poetry and the sheer magic of John Lee Hooker's music.

[DirkK81]

Is it just me or does listening to this make you think of George Thorouhgood's - One Bourbon One beer song ......

[orchardwill]

@DirkK81 John Lee Hooker wrote that song also.

[BlackCavalier52]

@DirkK81 i've had friend make that comment to me before... i think its just typical blues, ya know?

[dega723]

Blues brothers rules....

[hahaurmno]

about as deep as it gets mmmmmmmm

[CharlesDavidPollock]

absolute tune



[mrbzhub]

There is a Led Zepplin CD of their most inpsired musicians. It has this track as close to it as I have heard. absolute brilliance and why I play the guitar and love the blues

[CuyahogaMustang]

Today I saw John Lee Hooker's Gibson S335 at the Rock-n-Roll

Hall Of Fame & Museum ....

[lulospawn]

Song and pic are true gangsta.

[stanleysoldman]

chillin on the boogie!!

[jellyrollbaker]

1 of the best cruisinn songs ever!!!

cruisin and chillen with you gal in a hot rod on the boulvard!!

[metallicakid516]

1Person never made it to Bob's Country Bunker...

[zed0469]

@metallicakid516 ... to see the Good Old Blues Brothers Boys Band

[RedMolly]

THANXXXXXXXX for upload and spreading it

[ilovetogofast88]

This is BLUES, man!!!

[mfuji02]

blues brothers -_-

[noodlam]

genius

[somercet1]

Thank you, Mr Hooker.

[doomyman]

killer song

[llama40204]

One nimrod out there simply has no musical taste.

[matsheep1999]

beautiful shocks;DD

[TI4438]

@clarkbell A '74 Dodge Monaco to be precise!

[clarkbell]

@TI4438 Like an invasion eh?

[hesarocker1]

@dx2223 i think its in A#

[hacktheplanet90]

THIS is the version that i like

blues

[DX2223]

What Key is this song in?

[teddibearsworld]

Preach, Johnny, Preach!

[merseymain]

@dcbandnerd- dam! you stole my line! i was gonna write that, but without the "woogie". CLASSICblues this, and ALL of his is.

[dcbandnerd]

"Let that boy boogie woogie."

Amen.

[JayGOS117]

Jack, thanx,

J

[JayGOS117]

This is beautiful, my gratz to you, el post

[MrSababababa1]

I'm only 24 years old and Johnny Lee was my first musical interest. And with each passing year i only come to appreciate him even more. It makes me sad that his neighborhood in Detroit, the famous paradise alley only 3 miles from my house, was completely torn down and an ugly freeway junction put in its place. It makes me sadder that he's gone. We miss you, John.

[jackthehatuk]

Thanks for that Ralph. Would like to hear some 60's recordings of his stuff. I love the sound when it is pure and not messed around with. Raw. The album i have is probably 60's recordings but with a little 'Moderna' thrown in.

[clarkbell]

@jackthehatuk This was 1948 man!

[TI4438]

What album is this version on?

[jackthehatuk]

@TI4438

The album i have it on is 'Boogie Man' It is part of a collection from a few years back where they sold magazines with a CD and its was called 'The Blues Collection'. I had it years ago and lent it to someone and never saw it again.

I recently managed to find it online and bought it again. I have to say it is a brilliant album with all the early stuff on it. Raw. Its great. I can't remember where i got it but if i can find out i will let you know.

[TI4438]

@jackthehatuk Thanks.

[ralphcraddock]

@jackthehatuk it was released in the uk on

the marble arch label,house of the blues was

the name of the album.this would have been mid

1960s.it had some of john lees great early recordings

on it, only cost 10s and 6p back then.

[JayGOS117]

@jackthehatuk I had that, it had a blue cover, with JLH inset in a portrait...right?

Boogie Chillen, One Bourbon..., Crawling Kingsnake and a righteous version of Boom Boom.

Plus six more gems...

I had the CD, my friend gave it to me, then it...'disappeared'.

Funnily, i was given the same album on tape years later...er, if you see it...

There's an album that needs a re-release.

Or some bastards to give either copy back!!! ;)

[TI4438]

@jackthehatuk Thanks.

[harsishava]

Swish!