King of the boogie

"Career-spanning box celebrating blues maven's centenary ... while the music collected here has ultimately been Hooker's ticket to prosperity, awards, and the good life, its real value is its cultural and historical significance. The music that he created 60 years ago, even today in the 21st century, remains an essential part of the DNA of rock music. It's (yep) a veritable boogie wonderland".

"It's a rare artist whose name becomes synonymous with their style, as does John Lee Hooker's with boogie. Tracing Hooker's output from his 1948 breakthrough single "Boogie Chillen" through hits such as "Dimples" and "Boom Boom", to the Indian Summer of his guest-laden Nineties comeback albums, this 5CD set depicts an artist who knew, early on, that he had tapped into something transcendent, and kept plugging away at it until the world shifted to hear things his way".

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