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Travelin' (John Lee Hooker Album)
''Travelin is an album by blues musician John Lee Hooker, recorded in 1960, which Vee-Jay Records released in the same year. Reception ''The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings'' wrote that "''Travelin "was the first of Hooker's Vee-Jay albums to be recorded at a single session. Cut from the same cloth, the performances have little variety in texture and not much in tempo." Track listing All compositions credited to John Lee Hooker # "No Shoes" – 2:10 # "I Wanna Walk" – 2:15 # "Canal Street Blues" – 2:30 # "Run On" – 2:10 # "I'm a Stranger" – 2:35 # "Whiskey and Wimmen" – 2:10 # "Solid Sender" – 2:30 # "Sunny Land" – 2:15 # "Goin' to California" – 2:20 # "I Can't Believe" – 2:37 # "I'll Know Tonight" – 2:35 # "Dusty Road" – 2:09 Personnel *John Lee Hooker John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1912 or 1917 – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. The son of a sharecropper, he rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Travelin' (Chet Atkins Album)
''Travelin is the twenty-third studio album recorded by American guitarist Chet Atkins, released in 1963. The liner notes, titled "Smash Hit Tunes from His History-making International Tour", portray Atkins' tour of South Africa with Jim Reeves and Floyd Cramer. Reception Writing for Allmusic, critic Steven Cook wrote of the album "While often seen as no more than hokey, easy listening ephemera, Atkins' many sides from the '60s deserve a reassessment. The stellar jazz dates Atkins later did at Columbia may better showcase his jazz leanings, but these RCA discs still have a wealth of quality picking and a good share of top-drawer material." Reissues * In 1995, ''Travelin''' and ''Caribbean Guitar'' were reissued on CD by One Way Records. AllMusic entry for reissue of ''Travelin'' and ''Caribbean Guitar''./ref> Track listing Side one # "Wheels" (Torre, Stephens) – 2:31 # "Calcutta" (Conway, John Garton, Libby Quinn) – 3:01 # "La Dolce Vita" ( Nino Rota, Eduardo Verde) †... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |