''Live at Cafe Au Go Go'' is a live album by 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 ...

with members of

Muddy Waters McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913 April 30, 1983), known professionally as Muddy Waters, was an American blues singer and musician who was an important figure in the post-war blues scene, and is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago b ...

Blues Band. It was recorded at the

Cafe Au Go Go The Cafe Au Go Go was a Greenwich Village night club located in the basement of the New Andy Warhol Garrick Theatre building in the late 1960s, and located at 152 Bleecker Street in Manhattan, New York City. The club featured many musical groups, ...

in New York City and released by BluesWay Records in 1967.

Reception

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reviewer

Richie Unterberger Richie Unterberger (born January 19, 1962) is an American author and journalist whose focus is popular music and travel writing. Life and writing Unterberger attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he wrote for the university newspaper '' ...

stated: "A decent if somewhat low-key electric set, recorded in August of 1966. One of his better live bands, featuring support from Otis Spann and other members of Muddy Waters' group".

Track listing

All compositions credited to John Lee Hooker # "I'm Bad Like Jesse James" – 5:03 # "She's Long, She's Tall (She Weeps Like a Willow Tree)" – 3:08 # "When My First Wife Left Me" – 3:42 # "Heartaches and Misery" – 5:10 # " One Bourbon, One Scotch and One Beer" – 4:05 # "I Don't Want No Trouble" – 4:09 # "I'll Never Get Out of These Blues Alive" – 4:18 # "Seven Days" – 3:42

Personnel

– guitar, vocals *

Otis Spann Otis Spann (March 21, 1924 or 1930April 24, 1970) was an American blues musician, whom many consider to be the leading postwar Chicago blues pianist. Early life Sources differ over Spann's early years. Some state that he was born in Jackson, Miss ...

– piano *

Sammy Lawhorn Sammy David Lawhorn (July 12, 1935 – April 29, 1990) was an American Chicago blues guitarist, best known as a member of Muddy Waters's band. He also accompanied many other blues musicians, including Otis Spann, Willie Cobbs, Eddie Boyd, Ro ...

, Luther "Snake Boy" Johnson – guitars *Mac Arnold – bass *

Francis Clay Francis Clay (November 16, 1923 – January 21, 2008) was an American jazz and blues drummer, best known for his work behind Muddy Waters in the 1950s and 1960s, and as an original member of the James Cotton band. Clay's jazz-influenced style is ...

– drums

References

{{Authority control John Lee Hooker live albums 1967 live albums BluesWay Records live albums Albums produced by Bob Thiele