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8832 - VARIOUS ARTISTS - FROM CLARKSDALE TO HEAVEN: REMEMBERING JOHN LEE HOOKER (2002) (RE-UP)

VARIOUS ARTISTS
''FROM CLARKSDALE TO HEAVEN: REMEMBERING JOHN LEE HOOKER''
SEPTEMBER 24 2002
69:50

1 Zakiya Hooker & Johnnie Johnson & Bobby Murray - I Want To Hug You
Bass – David Daniel
Drums – Marlon Green
Guitar (Synth) – Tony Cook
Lead Guitar – Bobby Murray
Lead Vocals – Zakiya Hooker
Percussion – Victor Puebla
Piano – Johnnie Johnson
Written By John Lee Hooker

2 Jack Bruce & Gary Moore - I'm In The Mood
Bass – Jack Bruce
Drums – Gary Husband
Lead Vocals – Gary Moore
Written By Bernard Besman, John Lee Hooker

3 Leo Lyons & Ric Lee & Vince Converse - Bad Like Jesse James
Bass – Leo Lyons
Drums – Ric Lee
Lead Guitar, Vocals – Vince Converse
Written By John Lee Hooker

4 Jeff Beck With The Kingdom Choir - Will The Cirlce Be Unbroken
Arranged By John Lee Hooker
Vocals Arranged By Laura Howard
Backing Vocals – The Kingdom Choir
Bass – David Hadley
Drums – Richard Bailey
All Guitar – Jeff Beck
Lead Vocals – Earl Green
Lead Vocals, Arranged By (Vocals) – Siggi Josiah
Piano – Dave Moore
Tambourine – Pete Brown

5 Gary Brooker & Andy Fairweather-Low - Baby Lee
Bass – Matt Pegg
Drums – Henry Spinetti
Lead Guitar – Andy Fairweather-Low
Piano, Lead Vocals – Gary Brooker
Written By James Bracken, John Lee Hooker

6 T.S. McPhee & Dick Heckstall-Smith - Ground Hog Blues
Lead Guitar, Vocals – T.S. McPhee
Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone – Dick Heckstall-Smith
Written By John Lee Hooker

7 Mick Taylor & Max Middleton - This Is Hip
Backing Vocals – Pete Brown
Bass, Backing Vocals – Michael Bailey
Drums – Godfrey MacLean
Lead Vocals, Vocals – Mick Taylor
Piano – Max Middleton
Written-By John Lee Hooker

8 Peter Green Splinter Group - Crawlin' King Snake
Bass (Upright) – Pete Stroud
Guitar (Open-Tuned) – Nigel Watson
Lead Guitar, Vocals, Harmonica – Peter Green
Rhythm Guitar – Roger Cotton
Written By Bernard Besman, John Lee Hooker

9 T.S. Mcphee & Dick Heckstall-Smith, Clem Clempson - I'm Leaving
Bass – David Hadley
Drums – Jeff Allen
Lead Guitar, Vocals – Tony McPhee
Rhythm Guitar, Lead Guitar (Second) – Clem Clempson
Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone – Dick Heckstall-Smith
Written By John Lee Hooker

10 Gary Brooker & Andy Fairweather-Low - Little Wheel
Bass – Matt Pegg
Drums – Henry Spinetti
Lead Guitar – Andy Fairweather-Low
Piano, Lead Vocals – Gary Brooker
Written By James Bracken, John Lee Hooker

11 Greggs Eggs - The Business
Bass – Chris Wilson
Congas – Lonnie Walter
Drums – Ken Greene
Lead Guitar – Futoshi Morroka
Lead Vocals – Suzanne Sterling
Written By Greg Anton, Robert Hunter

12 Jeff Beck - Hobo Blues
Bass – David Hadley
Drums – Richard Bailey
Lead Guitar – Jeff Beck
Lead Vocals – Earl Green
Written By Bernard Besman, John Lee Hooker

13 Gary Moore & Jack Bruce - Serve Me Right To Suffer
Bass – Jack Bruce
Drums – Gary Husband
Lead Guitar, Vocals – Gary Moore
Written By John Lee Hooker

14 John Lee Hooker, Booker T & Randy California - Red House
Bass – Phillip Chen
Drums – Bruce Gary
Lead Guitar, Vocals – John Lee Hooker
Organ – Booker T. Jones
Rhythm Guitar – Randy California
Written By Jimi Hendrix

REVIEW
by William Ruhlmann / ALLMUSIC
For this album to John Lee Hooker, executive producer Arnie Goodman of Blue Storm Music has assembled an impressive list of British musicians from the 1960s who helped spark the '60s blues revival that was responsible for the ascension of Hooker (among others) into legendary status. The biggest name on his own is Jeff Beck, who plays guitar on "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" and "Hobo Blues," but other notable figures include Cream's Jack Bruce, Leo Lyons and Ric Lee from Ten Years After, Procol Harum's Gary Brooker, ex-Rolling Stone Mick Taylor, former Fleetwood Mac leader Peter Green, and Gary Moore. The performers are reverent toward Hooker's music, maintaining its relentless rhythmic power and even at times re-creating the master's haunting mumble of a voice. The set is not entirely given over to the Brits, however, as it opens with "I Want to Hug You," sung by Hooker's daughter, Zakiya, and ends with Hooker himself, accompanied by Booker T. Jones and Randy California, among others, performing a previously unreleased "Red House" that was cut for a Jimi Hendrix tribute album. There is also a newly written song ("The Business") penned by Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter and Bay Area musician Greg Anton that was earmarked for a Hooker project never recorded due to his death. Such tracks provide some variety, but the strength of the album is still in the devoted performances of people like Beck and Green.

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