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.

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."

Pete Welding assigned the album 4 stars in his DownBeat review. He wrote, <blockquote>"He is one of the most powerful blues performers, yet there is not a great deal of originality or real poetry in his lyrics. In the hands of a lesser artist, one feels that they would hardly come across, but the power of Hooker is such that he can invest them with a genuine conviction and seriousness that makes them believable. The dark, brooding, inconsolable quality of his voice and the intensity of his delivery further add to this effect".</blockquote>

Track listing

All compositions credited to John Lee Hooker

1. "No Shoes" – 2:10
2. "I Wanna Walk" – 2:15
3. "Canal Street Blues" – 2:30
4. "Run On" – 2:10
5. "I'm a Stranger" – 2:35
6. "Whiskey and Wimmen" – 2:10
7. "Solid Sender" – 2:30
8. "Sunny Land" – 2:15
9. "Goin' to California" – 2:20
10. "I Can't Believe" – 2:37
11. "I'll Know Tonight" – 2:35
12. "Dusty Road" – 2:09

Personnel

• John Lee Hooker – guitar, vocals
• William "Lefty" Bates – guitar
• Sylvester Hickman – bass
• Jimmy Turner – drums

References