''Chill Out'' is a 1995 album by

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-style adaptation of Delta blues. Hooker often ...

featuring

Van Morrison Sir George Ivan Morrison (born 31 August 1945), known professionally as Van Morrison, is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose recording career spans seven decades. He has won two Grammy Awards. As a teenager in t ...

Carlos Santana Carlos Humberto Santana Barragán (; born July 20, 1947) is an American guitarist who rose to fame in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band Santana, which pioneered a fusion of Rock and roll and Latin American jazz. Its sound featured ...

, Charles Brown, and

Booker T. Jones Booker Taliaferro Jones Jr. (born November 12, 1944) is an American musician, songwriter, record producer and arranger, best known as the frontman of the band Booker T. & the M.G.'s. He has also worked in the studios with many well-known art ...

. It was produced by

Roy Rogers Roy Rogers (born Leonard Franklin Slye; November 5, 1911 – July 6, 1998) was an American singer, actor, and television host. Following early work under his given name, first as co-founder of the Sons of the Pioneers and then acting, the rebra ...

, Santana and Hooker himself, and executive produced by

Mike Kappus Mike Kappus (born May 24, 1950) is an American music manager and record producer. Kappus was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 2014. The Blues Foundation described Kappus as "the kind of manager and booking agent any musician would want" an ...

. Tracks 1 to 11 were recorded and mixed at Russian Hill Recording, San Francisco and The Plant, Sausalito, California. The album reached No.3 in the US Blues chart and was awarded a W. C. Handy Award for Traditional Blues Album of the Year.

Track listing

All songs written by John Lee Hooker except where noted: #"Chill Out (Things Gonna Change)" (John Lee Hooker,

Chester Thompson Chester Cortez Thompson (born December 11, 1948) is an American drummer best known for his tenures with Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention, Weather Report, Santana, the progressive rock band Genesis and Phil Collins as a solo artist. Thomp ...

)''CMJ New Music Monthly'', Number 20, April 1995, page 29 "The song, 'Chill Out', may shoot straight for the post-MOR VH-I crowd, but it fails to undercut the high-mindedness of Hooker's credo: 'I'll sing it for the people who feel the way I feel.'" #"Deep Blue Sea" #"

Kiddio "Kiddio" is a 1960 R&B/pop song written by Brook Benton & Clyde Otis. The song was first recorded and released in 1957 by Teddy Randazzo. Brook Benton recording "Kiddio" was later released as a single by Brook Benton in 1960. Randazzo and Benton b ...

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Brook Benton Benjamin Franklin Peay (September 19, 1931 – April 9, 1988), better known as Brook Benton, was an American singer and songwriter who was popular with rock and roll, rhythm and blues, and pop music audiences during the late 1950s and early 1960 ...

Clyde Otis Clyde Lovern Otis (September 11, 1924 – January 8, 2008), was an American songwriter and record producer, best known for his collaboration with singer Brook Benton, and for being one of the first African-American A&R executives at a major label ...

) #"Medley: "Serves Me Right to Suffer" / "Syndicator" #"

One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" (originally "One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer") is a blues song written by Rudy Toombs and recorded by Amos Milburn in 1953. It is one of several drinking songs recorded by Milburn in the early 1950s that pla ...

" #"Tupelo" #"Woman On My Mind" #"Annie Mae" #"Too Young" #"Talkin' the Blues" #"If You've Never Been in Love" #"We'll Meet Again" (Deacon Jones, G. K. Fowler)

Personnel

*John Lee Hooker - Guitar, vocals *

- Guitar, vocals *

- Guitar *Danny Caron - Guitar *

- Guitar *Bruce Kaphan - Guitar *Billy Johnson - Guitar *Rich Kirch - Guitar *

- keyboards *Benny Rietveld - bass *Ruth Davies - bass *Mac Cridlin - Bass *Jim Guyett - Bass *Raoul Rekow - Congas *Karl Perazzo - Timbales *Gaylord Birch - Drums *Bowen Brown - Drums *Scott Mathews - Drums *Charles Brown - Piano *John Sanders - Piano *

- Organ *

Melvyn "Deacon" Jones Melvyn "Deacon" Jones (December 12, 1943 – July 6, 2017) was a trumpet player and an organist and founding member of Baby Huey & the Babysitters. Biography In 1963 along with Johnny Ross and Jimmy Ramey, Jones formed Baby Huey & the Babysit ...

- Organ

Chart

References

John Lee Hooker albums 1995 albums Virgin Records albums Albums produced by Roy Rogers (guitarist) {{blues-album-stub