''Don't Turn Me from Your Door'', subtitled ''John Lee Hooker Sings His Blues'', is an album by the blues musician

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 ...

, compiling six songs originally recorded for

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in 1953 along with six new tunes recorded in 1961.

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released the album in 1963.

Reception

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reviewer Steve Leggett wrote that "you really can't go wrong with this guyhe always delivered what he was supposed to deliver with no frills and no fuss, generating a kind of endless boogie that, no matter what embellishments producers added in, was always poised between old country blues and its next-generation urban blues counterpart. None of Hooker's signature songs are here, but one still gets a solid sense of him, and truthfully, the only bad Hooker is no Hooker at all."

Track listing

All compositions credited to John Lee Hooker # "Stuttering Blues" – 2:13 # "Wobbling Baby" – 2:32 # "You Lost a Good Man" – 2:50 # "Love My Baby" – 2:35 # "Misbelieving Baby" – 2:30 # "Drifting Blues" – 3:33 # "Don't Turn Me from Your Door" – 2:40 # "My Baby Don't Love Me" – 2:58 # "I Ain't Got Nobody" – 2:28 # "Real Real Gone" – 2:22 # "Guitar Lovin' Man" – 2:38 # "Talk About Your Baby" – 2:33 Recorded in Cincinnati, Ohio, in July, 1953 (tracks 1, 2, 4, 8, 10 & 11) and Miami, Florida, in July, 1961 (tracks 3, 5–7, 9 & 12)

Personnel

– guitar, vocals *

Eddie Kirkland Eddie Kirkland (August 16, 1923 – February 27, 2011) was an American electric blues guitarist, harmonicist, singer, and songwriter. Kirkland, known as the "Gypsy of the Blues" for his rigorous touring schedules, played and toured with John ...

– guitar (track 2) *

Earl Hooker Earl Zebedee Hooker (January 15, 1930 – April 21, 1970) was a Chicago blues guitarist known for his slide guitar playing. Considered a "musician's musician", he performed with blues artists such as Sonny Boy Williamson II, Junior Wells, and ...

– guitar (tracks 5 & 9)

References

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