John Lee Hooker – Jack O’Diamonds (1949)

1. Guitar Blues Instrumental 
2. Two White Horses 
3. Trouble in Mind 
4. Catfish Blues 
5. John Henry 
6. How Long Blues 
7. Ezekiel Saw the Wheel 
8. Jack O' Diamonds 
9. Waterboy 
10. Six Little Puppies and Twelve Shaggy Hounds 
11. In the Evening When the Sun Goes Down 
12. Old Blind Barnabas 
13. Moses Smote the Water 
14. Spoken Interlude 
15. Rabbit on the Log 
16. Come and See About Me 
17. 33 Blues 
18. She's Real Gone 
19. I Wonder 
20. Untitled Slow Blues

John Lee Hooker - vocals, guitar

This is 1949. Johnnie Lee is young. It is the moment just before big initial hits "Boogie Chillen" and "Boom Boom Boom" hit the market. Hooker sings hymns, folk songs, blues that radiated out from recording of the great 1920s bluesmasters like Leroy Carr to become effectively traditional, tunes Hooker brought up to Detroit from Clarksdale, Mississippi. This recording shows us that while the greed and stereotyping of the record industry restricted Black guitarists like Hooker to blues, Hooker at least retained a very good selection of traditional dance tunes, hymns,and other African American folk songs.

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