Don't Look Back (John Lee Hooker album)

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Don't Look Back
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Studio album by
John Lee Hooker
ReleasedMarch 4, 1997
Studio
Genre Blues
Length53:33
Label Virgin
Producer Van Morrison
John Lee Hooker chronology
Chill Out
(1995)		Don't Look Back
(1997)		The Best of Friends
(1998)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Don't Look Back is an album released by blues singer-songwriter John Lee Hooker in 1997. It was produced by Van Morrison, who also performed duets with Hooker on four of the tracks. [3] The album was the Grammy winner in the Best Traditional Blues Album category in 1998. The title duet by Hooker and Morrison also won a Grammy for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals.

Contents

John Lee Hooker and Van Morrison

The two singers had collaborated on several occasions over the years before this album was realized and had become personal friends. Morrison had first recorded the title song, "Don't Look Back" on his debut album as the frontman for the Northern Irish band Them and according to one of the band members, Billy Harrison, the two first met in London in 1964. [4] Their first collaboration was on Hooker's album Never Get Out of These Blues Alive , recorded in 1972, with a duet on the title song and Hooker's cover of Morrison's "T.B. Sheets". They guested on each other's albums over the years with Hooker also appearing on two films with Morrison: BBC's One Irish Rover and Morrison's 1990 video Van Morrison The Concert .

Track listing

  1. "Dimples" (James Bracken, Hooker) – 3:59 L*
  2. "The Healing Game" (Van Morrison) – 5:09 M*
  3. "Ain't No Big Thing" (Hooker) – 5:19
  4. "Don't Look Back" (Hooker) – 6:41 M*
  5. "Blues Before Sunrise" (Leroy Carr, Hooker) – 6:41
  6. "Spellbound" (Hooker, Michael Osborn) – 3:56
  7. "Travellin' Blues" (Hooker) – 5:35 M*
  8. "I Love You Honey" (Hooker, Freddy Williams) – 3:31
  9. "Frisco Blues" (Hooker) – 3:47
  10. "Red House" (Jimi Hendrix) – 4:02
  11. "Rainy Day" (Hooker) – 5:50 M*

Notes

Chart

Chart (1997)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA Charts) [6] 17

Personnel

Notes

  1. ↑ Slawecki, Chris (March 4, 1997). "Don't Look Back – John Lee Hooker". AllMusic . Retrieved December 12, 2015.
  2. ↑ Russell, Tony; Smith, Chris (2006). The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings . Penguin. p. 274. ISBN   978-0-140-51384-4.
  3. ↑ "Don't Look Back: John Lee Hooker". maine.edu. Archived from the original on May 25, 2003. Retrieved March 8, 2009.
  4. ↑ Heylin 2003, p. 96.
  5. ↑ Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. March 15, 1997. pp. 51–.
  6. ↑ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 131.

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