23-06-2014, 14:46
I LOVE the slide!!! Thanks man!
jazzboCR Wrote:Earl Hooker If you like slide guitar, you like Mr. Hooker. Taken from us at 41 with TB. A "musician's musician". Some tunes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joOiY13EXLk << OK no slide in this clip--settle for teeth and tongue?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_RorqxpotU << See, you did a tough week with that air wrench or steel ladle or huge-o meat cleaver, gave The Man everything he needed, but now it's late Friday night and that juice tasted so nice and that Chica looks so good...and now you're dancing. Life doesn't get a whole lot better for a working stiff in Chicago (AKA The Wind) in the '50's-'60's.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMrlT0c1SKw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbrgNXiwuJA << A bluesman back then had to play it sometime in the evening's proceedings.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOq_vACe84w << Yes, this over-done classic...but Mr. Hooker's way
BONUS 1: a full album from '67. All instrumental.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cSHKwv3SCs
BONUS 2: Full disc from '69--a bit of everything including vocals (he could deliver a lyric): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhFfeK_TlPY
The ultimate connection is between a performer and its' audience!