Burning Hell

by John Lee Hooker

Burning Hell cover art

Recorded in Detroit in 1959 but unreleased until 1964 in the UK, this session captures Hooker performing entirely solo with an acoustic guitar. The sparse production highlights his heavy, rhythmic foot-stomping and the dark, driving structure of his unamplified Delta blues technique.

Genres

  • Delta Blues

Tracklist

  1. Burning Hell
  2. Graveyard Blues
  3. Baby Please Don't Go
  4. Jackson ,Tennessee
  5. You Live Your Life And I'll Live Mine
  6. Smokestack Lightnin'
  7. How Can You Do It?
  8. I Don't Want No Woman If Her Hair Ain't No Longer Than Mine
  9. I Rolled And Turned And Cried The Whole Night Long
  10. Blues For My Baby
  11. Key To The Highway
  12. Natchez Fire