JOHN LEE HOOKER – BOOM BOOM 7″ – EXC UK 1963 ROCK BLUES

John Lee Hooker – Boom Boom
(Stateside Records  1963   SS203)
UK Pressing

Vinyl in Excellent condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality apart from some light pops/crackles & some clicks at the start of side 1)

Stateside Company Sleeve in Excellent condition

John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1912 or 1917 – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. The son of a sharecropper, he rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-style adaptation of Delta blues that he developed in Detroit. Hooker often incorporated other elements, including talking blues and early North Mississippi hill country blues. He developed his own driving-rhythm boogie style, distinct from the 1930s–1940s piano-derived boogie-woogie. Hooker was ranked 35 in Rolling Stone‘s 2015 list of 100 greatest guitarists, and has been cited as one of the greatest male blues vocalists of all time.

“Boom Boom” is a song written by American blues singer and guitarist John Lee Hooker and recorded October 26, 1961. Although it became a blues standard, music critic Charles Shaar Murray calls it “the greatest pop song he ever wrote”. “Boom Boom” was both an American R&B and pop chart success in 1962 and a UK top-twenty hit in 1992.

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