Artist: JOHN LEE HOOKER
Album: JEALOUS REMASTERED (CD)

Year: 1986/ 2007
Media type: CD

When John Lee Hooker’s Jealous album came out in 1986, its back cover had this praise from Carlos Santana: “John Lee Hooker is a supreme force in American music. Listen to Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Voodoo Child,’ listen to Van Morrison’s phrasing, listen to nature’s beat: It’s keeping time with John’s heart, foot and fingers. Boogie within and boogie without, but boogie till you shake off all your worries. John Lee is an ocean of inspiration.” For Hooker, such words of support could scarcely have come at a better time.

Jealous won a W.C. Handy Award and a Grammy nomination for Best Traditional Album. Through thick and thin, though, he remained true to his own vision: “In my travelin’ and living in God’s world, I love people. I’m just a softie. I just give my heart to people. Friendship, love, peace of mind, and health is the greatest thing in the world. You can’t let money or success get in the way of friendship and love and the people that put you where you at today. And who put me there? The workin’ people, the poor people that go out and work five or six days a week, and come out to see me and go out and buy my albums. Young kids, old people. Them the people that got me there.

“All my life, I’ve been very fortunate, very lucky. God give me that talent, and I put it to good use through the people that love me. I loves them too, and I really gets them up.”

TRACKLIST:

01. JEALOUS
(John Lee Hooker)
02. NINETY DAYS
(John Lee Hooker)
03. EARLY ONE MORNING
(John Lee Hooker)
04. WHEN MY FIRST WIFE LEFT ME
(John Lee Hooker)
05. BOOGIE WOMAN
(John Lee Hooker)
06. WELL WELL
(John Lee Hooker)
07. I DIDN’T KNOW
(Chester Burnett)
08. WE’LL MEET AGAIN
(Deacon Jones/Gregory Keith Fowler)
09. WORRIED LIFE BLUES
(Maceo Merriweather)
10. NINETY DAYS (REPRISE)
(John Lee Hooker)

BONUS TRACKS:

11. LONELY MAN 6:10
(John Lee Hooker)

John Lee Hooker vocals/guitar
Bill Johnson guitar
Rich Kirch guitar
Jim Guyett bass
Mitch Woods keyboards
Scott Mathews drums

12. DECORATION DAY 4:43
(John Lee Hooker)

John Lee Hooker vocals/guitar
Roy Rogers guitar