| John Lee Hooker on Campus | ||||
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| Released | 1964 | |||
| Recorded | Chicago, 1963 | |||
| Genre | Blues | |||
| Length | 35:02 | |||
| Label | Vee-Jay | |||
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John Lee Hooker on Campus is an album by blues musician John Lee Hooker, released by the Vee-Jay label in 1963. [1]
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| (The New) Rolling Stone Album Guide |  [3] |
| The Virgin Encyclopedia of The Blues | [4] |
AllMusic reviewer Al Campbell wrote: "John Lee Hooker on Campus is titled to sound like a live recording but it isn't ... these 12 tracks originally tried to capitalize on Hooker's emergence on the coffeehouse/college tours he was involved in at the time. This is an electric album that contains excellent material from Hooker, even though the occasional background singers get in the way, attempting to modernize his gritty blues with a smoother soul sound." [2]
Album details are taken from the original VeeJay album liner notes. [5] All compositions credited to John Lee Hooker; no other recording information is listed.
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