ABC of the Blues CD13 (2010)

CD 13 - John Lee Hooker & Wynonie Harris

13-01 John Lee Hooker – Dimples						play
13-02 John Lee Hooker – I’m in the Mood
13-03 John Lee Hooker – Boogie Chillen’
13-04 John Lee Hooker – Let Your Daddy Ride
13-05 John Lee Hooker – John L’s House Rent Boogie
13-06 John Lee Hooker – Weeping Willow Boogie
13-07 John Lee Hooker – Huckle Up Baby
13-08 John Lee Hooker – Hobo Blues
13-09 John Lee Hooker – Crawlin’ King Snake
13-10 John Lee Hooker – Sally Mae
13-11 Wynonie Harris – Around the Clock Pt. 1 & 2
13-12 Wynonie Harris – Yonder Goes My Baby
13-13 Wynonie Harris – Don’t Take My Whiskey Away from Me
13-14 Wynonie Harris – Cock-A-Doodle-Doo
13-15 Wynonie Harris – Time to Change Your Town
13-16 Wynonie Harris – You Got to Get Yourself a Job, Girl
13-17 Wynonie Harris – Oh Babe!
13-18 Wynonie Harris – Luscious Woman
13-19 Wynonie Harris – Stormy Night Blues
13-20 Wynonie Harris – Git to Gittin’ Baby			play

John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1917 – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist.

Hooker began his life as the son of a sharecropper, William Hooker, and rose to prominence performing his own unique style of what was originally closest to Delta blues. He developed a 'talking blues' style that was his trademark. Though similar to the early Delta blues, his music was metrically free. John Lee Hooker could be said to embody his own unique genre of the blues, often incorporating the boogie-woogie piano style and a driving rhythm into his blues guitar playing and singing. His best known songs include "Boogie Chillen'" (1948), "I'm in the Mood" (1951) and "Boom Boom" (1962), the first two reaching R&B #1 in the Billboard charts.

Wynonie Harris (August 24, 1915 – June 14, 1969), born in Omaha, Nebraska, was an American blues shouter and rhythm and blues singer of upbeat songs, featuring humorous, often ribald lyrics. With fifteen Top 10 hits between 1946 and 1952, Harris is generally considered one of rock and roll's forerunners, influencing Elvis Presley among others.

With dance partner Velda Shannon, Harris formed a dance team in the early 1930s. The team performed around North Omaha's flourishing entertainment community, and by 1934 they were a regular attraction at the Ritz Theatre. It was not until 1935, however, that Harris was able to earn his living as an entertainer. While performing at Jim Bell's new Harlem nightclub with Velda Shannon, Harris began to sing the blues.

He also began traveling frequently to Kansas City, Kansas where he paid close attention to the blues shouters including Jimmy Rushing and Big Joe Turner.

Harris was spotted by Lucky Millinder who asked him to join his band's tour. Harris joined on March 24, 1944, while the band was in the middle of a week-long residency at the Regal in Chicago. Harris' success and popularity grew as Millinder's band toured the country. He and Millinder had a falling out over money. In September 1945 while playing in San Antonio, Texas, Harris quit Millinder's band.

In April 1945, a year after the song was recorded, Decca released "Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well". It became the group's biggest hit; it went to number one on the Billboard R&B chart on July 14 and stayed there for eight weeks.

His greatest success came when he signed for Syd Nathan's King label, where he enjoyed a series of hits on the U.S. R&B chart in the late 1940s and early 1950s. These included a 1948 cover of Roy Brown's "Good Rocking Tonight",[8] "Good Morning Judge" and "All She Wants to Do Is Rock". In 1946, Harris recorded two singles with pianist Herman "Sonny" Blount, who later earned fame as the eclectic jazz composer and bandleader Sun Ra.

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