{"id":3460,"date":"2012-12-20T12:07:45","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T17:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=3460"},"modified":"2013-02-14T11:44:36","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T16:44:36","slug":"f16c-christmas-john-lee-hooker-blues-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funky16corners.com\/?p=3460","title":{"rendered":"F16C Christmas: John Lee Hooker – Blues For Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Listen\/Download John Lee Hooker – Blues For Christmas<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/del><\/p>\n

Greetings all<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

I hope all is festive in your corner of the world. Even if you don\u2019t celebrate Christmas you can still catch a wave of good will (but look out for the tsunami of consumerism) and bask in the sweet, holiday vibe.<\/p>\n

Though I have posted tracks by blues artists in the space before, they have almost exclusively been of the soul\/funk crossover variety.<\/p>\n

This is not one of those.<\/p>\n

The mighty John Lee Hooker<\/strong> is one of my favorite artists.<\/p>\n

That said track I bring you today is not one of his finest, though it may well be his drunkest.<\/p>\n

The Hook himself doesn\u2019t sound all that inebriated (though he does at one point cry out \u2018I\u2019m wasted!\u201d, so there\u2019s that\u2026<\/em>), but the backing \u201cband\u201d is something else entirely.<\/p>\n

\u201cBlues for Christmas\u2019 was recorded in 1959, and it sounds like Hooker finished up his 12th set of the night, started out the door and then, struck by inspirado<\/em> rounded up the drunkest, least competent bunch of has-been be-boppers he could find and dragged them into the studio.<\/p>\n

It was there that they cracked open another 50 gallon drum of atomic egg nog and set to work.<\/p>\n

To describe the recording as \u201cwoozy\u201d doesn\u2019t really do it justice.<\/p>\n

You can almost hear the horn section nodding off in the background, their eyes getting more and more bloodshot, the wind coming out of their axes potent enough to knock a buzzard off a shitwagon.<\/p>\n

There are points where you almost wonder of the trumpet and sax players accidentally picked up each other\u2019s instruments by mistake.<\/p>\n

The only thing that could make it better would be a superannuated ecdysiast<\/em> lazily swinging her well-padded hips to the beat (the tenor player even breaks into ‘Night Train’ for a few bars).<\/p>\n

It may not be the merriest Christmas song around, but you definitely get the sense that a whole lot of merriment was had earlier in the evening.<\/p>\n

I hope you dig it, and I\u2019ll be back on Monday with more holiday cheer.<\/p>\n

Keep the faith<\/strong><\/p>\n

Larry<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

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