The Healer

He's good but a lot of this is boring. Santana feature is cool.

The Babadook-esque cover caught my attention, but the music let it go again. JLH may well have been a pioneering bluesman but this 1989 collection sounds a bit stale, despite all the guest appearances (or maybe because of them? I liked the last 3 tracks where it was just him, stripped-back, the most). There are some agreeable grooves, but they're all stretched too thin to serve as more than background music. 2.5

Blues. Några starka spår, men lite spretig, mycket pga upplägget med gäster. Starkast när han är ensam och är avskalat. Skulle skippat gästerna.

Ok 2

This is tough to rate. I love John Lee Hooker, he’s an absolute legend. That said, most of this album suffers from the same thing a lot of ‘80s blues albums suffer from: it’s massively overproduced and has too much going on. All the extra guitars and horns etc just don’t need to be there. The last couple of tracks, though, are much more stripped down and sound far better for it.

Quite liked it, but for background realistically. Can't see myself reaching for it very often.

Decent album. Will never listen again

It was meh, opener had cool guitar riffs but thats about it, couldnt keep my interest.

Get's really samey really quickly

Apologies to John Lee but this was boring for me

Starting out, this is smooth af. Oh, the vocals started. They kinda ruin it. Let's see how this goes. Would be a better album without the vocalist.

New Orleans vibes, was ok

At times wonderfully musical, at others incredibly dull. I don’t know the right space and time for this to make sense.

Yeah, it’s missing some snarl, isn’t it? I actually quite liked the final track (“No Substitute”), which is quiet and unlike anything else I’ve ever heard from JLH. An entire album that’s that stripped down and hushed like that would maybe have been interesting, but that’s not what we got. I’d rather hear a live version and I don't think that’s the reaction you want coming out of the studio.

Spicy in concept, kinda bland in execution. Like the hot sauce recipe I tried to make the other day.

Ok but fairly uninspiring blues

нууу

John Lee Hooker is of course a legendary figure in music history. Most notable for his contribution to blues music. I'm not sure this would be the album I'd pick by him to include on this list, though. I would probably go for one of his earlier works. I feel as though the slick 80s production doesn't compliment Hooker as much. I also feel like the long list of collaborators takes away from Hooker's work on here. The track "Rocking Chair" is a good example of what I wish the full album sounded like.

Not my thing found it kinda boring sadly. I usually think of older albums like this pretty boring and this album is a perfect example of this, maybe it'll grow on me though. Favorite Track: The Healer

I like the blues but this album feels a bit lazy. Bring popular people of the time onto an album to make the bluesy man relevant again in pop culture. I'm sure his other stuff is way better, since this is kinda his swan song. Some groovy, but a lot of meh.

C- The Healer - 3 I’m In The Mood - 2 Baby Lee - 3 Cuttin’ Out - 2 Think Twice Before You Go - 2 Sally Mae - 2 That’s Alright - 2 Rockin’ Chair - 2 My Dream - 3 No Substitute - 2 Not a Blues guy.

Just didn't really do anything for me. It wasn't bad, just not my favorite.

Not as good as others.

Such a disappointing album; too many guests, too much white blues rock, not enough raw Hooker.

He ain't the healer!! Man casted a slow yet deadly Poison spell on me that costs 30 mana points, be wary!!

Decent bluesy stuff

A bit boring and love focused. I bet he would be cool live.

These collabathons can be pretty dull affairs, and so it proves here. Santana IMHO the kiss of dullness to anyone he works with. Concert at Newport the place to start with JLH not here.

Out of all the JLH albums this is the one you choose? You guys are helpless.

Boring unimaginative blues rock

Boring Blues Rock.

This man had recorded some of the best blues albums between 1959 and 1971, so let's listen to one of his worst from 1989. Is it only because of the featuring from Thorogood, Los Lobos or Santana? What the hell is that choice.

Very bluesy, obviously, but I was just... bored with it? Maybe I don't get it. Fortunately it was a quicker one. 5/10.

The gentler couplet of songs that finish the album won me back a bit, and some brilliant guitar picking, but the aggressive noodling sound isn’t something that ever had a stronghold on me. The flat late-80s production on a couple of the tracks won’t leave me rushing to return to this album. Two and a half. Fave track - My Dream.

Guys probably a legend, but this album felt kinda sub par to me. Felt like every track was a demo recording. Would've liked to hear a cleaner studio sound. Dudes got soul, but this album doesn't show it off

The title track is a collaboration with Santana... and a bunch of the other songs feature other prominent artists - though it's a very blues/bluegrass/rock combo sound. Pretty easy listening, but not for me.

There's something really intriguing about this period of time between roughly 1988 and like 1992; the end of 80's glam and before the grunge explosion of the 90s. I definitely need to find more top albums from these years and also other years that fall in between the big genre-defining albums. Interesting how the first track is smooth-jazz and is kind of an outlier from the rest of the very blues-centric record. I love the Bonnie Raitt appearance on "I'm in the mood". I actually haven't listened to her much but she sounds really great here. At the same time I find myself getting bored with these sort of songs and the dated lyrics. Saying you are in the mood for love repeatedly doesn't really do much for me. It's already a bit straightforward and predictable because it's a blues chord progression, so the second half of the track wasn't my favorite. I didn't really love this album. I felt underwhelmed by the overall blues sound and it just didn't do too much for me. I liked the first track the most and wish that more of the album sounded like that.

I absolutely adore JLH. been the bedrock of my musical taste for as long as i remember. JLH through an 80's lens with guest musicians lending a hand is not what i want to hear though. Gimme the man by himself with a guitar and i'll be as happy as a pig in shite x

Might not have been as high if I hadn't been playing Red Dead Redemption recently. Album art intrigued my brain.

Collaborative albums fall funny on me as they don’t have continuity or concepts as top rated albums. John Lee shocker is a great blues man. Style is confused by the amount of guests, though they’re doing some great stuff. Sot The Healer 2/5

The Healer is a blues album by American blues singer-songwriter John Lee Hooker. It was a critical & commercial success, and was an important album for Hooker's later career as it allowed him to retire in comfort at age 73. The track "I'm in the Mood" won a Grammy for Best Traditional Blues Performance. I enjoyed this album as background music while I worked. John Lee Hooker was an amazing blues guitarist and I'm shocked I'm only learning about him now.

I absolutely hated this until the last couple tracks stripped away the slick production and revealed some pure folksy blues made by Mr Hooker's hands and heart alone. All the special guests and features bring the record down! Thus, I must award this album a low rating despite its deep-cut value.

More about the collaborators than John Lee Hooker. The first track sounds like a Santana track featuring Hooker instead of the other way around. Stop Santana-ing up everything you guest on, Carlos! The Musselwhite collab is a better example of what this album is trying to do, but it's just really uneven. I'm not sure why this was the Hooker album picked compared to an earlier release from the 60s, but I'm glad Hooker got paid regardless.

At its best it fades into the background, at its worst it's annoying. Might have had some potential, but that was ruined by the harmonica and guest musicians.

eka biisi kuullosti santanalta.. heh katsomaan menin...santana siellä listattuna biisin tekijöissä..

Leiðinlegt að segja það en þetta var leiðinlegt.

First track was great (feat Santana, go figure), the rest I didn’t really enjoy.

Eh. Not really into it. Felt kinda boring but I also wasn’t in the mood so idk. Will have to give it a re listen.

Not for me

jazzy

In an attempt for blues to stay relevant, Hooker employs a range of widely known guest artists. The first song has the classic cyber tropical guitar Santana song, but it's hardly bluesy at all. The next brings in the 70s folk artist Bonnie Raitt who would soon be known for her hit "I Can't Make You Love Me", but this song is pretty standard. The melodies are mostly mellow and generic, not too memorable. Hooker's vocals are haunting and subtle, the exact opposite of what you'd expect from his "Boom Boom" song. The Canned Heat collab was the best. It was punchy with a nice rusty bluegrass guitar sound. "Think Twice" also has a memorable country rock sound. The last 3 songs are simple without collabs, but I only found "Rockin Chair" impressive. None of them were really bad, but I can't say they were essential or representative of what the blues has to offer. Favorites: The Healer, Cuttin Out, Think Twice Before You Go, Rockin Chair

Bit of a meh album, not sure how it even reached number 17 on the ARIA Charts. The album cover is quite eerie, and could be the cover of a horror movie to be honest. Best: I'm in the Mood Worst: No Substitute

Rarely like collaborations

First John Lee Hooker was an amazing artist, I like a lot of his work. However blues albums in the 80's suffer from highly polished production and this album is great example. Perhaps when it was released it sounded fresh but now it sounds quite dated. It's a shame there's some good playing but I just can't listen to it. It pains to me give John Lee such a low rating.

It’s a 3 only as a contrast to greater JLH blues tracks. I don’t really like these “paired up” records. They feel too deliberate and artificial.

Meh....

Klubilla soivaa, sen suurempaa numeroa itsestään tekemättä. Toimii siihen juttuun 5/5, mut näiden arviointiperusteiden mukaan kahta enempää voi antaa

legend returns with...pan pipes...oh dear The rest of the album - nothing got me as excited as his proper blues

Favourite Song - I’m in the Mood One for karaoke - I’m in the Mood One for a run - The Healer Started off okay this one and then gradually got tiresome. I was in the mood after the first few songs to pull down my undies and shake my nob around as if I was in a sexy underground dark bar kind of place that had a blues band in the corner playing. This on the surface may well seem like a nice thought but the second half correlated more with the reality that if you did whip out your nob in any bar for that matter, you’ll be promptly asked to leave and have to roam around town looking for somewhere else still open to go. So this album for me started like a willy shaking blues album but ended up feeling like I was alone in the rain trying to get into a bar in Matthew St only to realise it was 6am and doors were closed.

I admittedly don't think I get blues at all. All of these songs would start interesting and then drone on and on, not really doing anything more with the songs. It was just really boring. I liked Hooker's voice but his choice of perhaps five words to each song is underwhelming. Oh well.

Fell asleep listening to this but Santana was good

2.5.

Not Hooker’s best by a long shot.

I don't know, the backing music has some good moments but overall wasn't into his voice on a lot of tracks - too much moaning/slurring through songs. It was almost bearable until "Rockin' Chair", which I found really tested my patience.

boooo

Like someone else reviewed - not really a hooker album with all the collaborations.

Not memorable nor very enjoyable

Not for me but I can appreciate his appeal to men of a certain age

Smooth

Meh

Flatur blús

It’s the blues, by a legendary artist, a cornerstone pioneering founding father of the genre. I know I should be impressed, but this is just the typical late stage career low hanging fruit kind of album. It feels so manufactured, the complete antithesis of everything the blues are about. The stuff Spotify automatically played when this album finished was better.

Not fond of the title track, the late 80s production really leaves me cold, and Santana's guitar coupled with this just feels easy listening. In the Mood is more the blues sound I was expecting and much better. Not a big Bonnie Raitt fan though, have a feeling this isn't going to be for me. The Canned Heat one is pretty good, decent groove. The George Thorogood one is excellent. Rockin Chair just John Lee on his own is great. Some really good tracks here then. As a whole album though I'm underwhelmed.

Might listen to it again. There's a time and space for it. Smokey. Drink. Cramped quarters... sounds like it qualifies for my next flight.

Meh

It's alright. The spoken word pairs well with the instrumentation, but I didn't enjoy it very much. The album kind of passed by without too many standout moments. Highlight: 1.

(sigh) This is a great example about what gives me the screaming shits about this 1001 albums project. This was John lee Hooker's biggest album by far, won him a Grammy, and paid for him to live the rest of his life in comfort. It is really well recorded versions of some of classic material (even if a little heavy on the 80s digital synths, recorded to a click track, soooo much reverb, and somewhat over polished by Roy Rogers) and with very impressive guests stars (Santana, Bonnie Raitt, Roy Rogers, Robert Cray, Canned Heat, George Thorogood, Charlie Musselwhite, Los Lobos). But is this REALLY a John lee Hooker album? Have you really heard and understood John lee Hooker if this is the only album of his you have heard? Most tracks sound more like the guest stars than John Lee Hooker. Most of the guests do a pretty good version of the blues, but it is a little strange to me that nearly all of the collaborators on this album are white. And I'm sure they even have Hooker playing guitar on all tracks.It feels a little bit like wheeling Hooker out to provide a veneer of authenticity to a major label album of blues for a mainstream (read as "white") audience, but he really is just window dressing. I don't begrudge Hooker his belated recognition or long-delayed pay-day, but this is not the album you should hear from one of the titans of electric blues. This is blues for people who don't really know anything about blues. This is the blues for middle-aged financial advisers. This is blues for dentists who have a Harley Davidson in their garage to occasionally pretend they are a bad-ass. It's blues for soccer moms to dance to. This a blues for white people. Listening to this again reminds me of why I sold my copy of this album. I know John Lee Hooker had a patchy history with record labels, but surely there is a better choice to represent this giant of the blues?

Slow blues, slightly faster blues, blues with extra singers and musicians, all 12-bar, just an awful lot of very samey stuff.

Tremendously boring.

This did not start well. I have a real aversion to that soft blues style. And have never heard a Santana song that I like. But this got better, at least in places. In The Mood is such a classic that it is hard to ruin it. Although give me the original version any day. The songs near the end, where it is just the man himself and his guitar still sound good, but as a whole this album seems a miscalculated attempt to reach a ‘modern’ audience and takes out much of the energy and directness that makes John Lee Hooker one of the original greats.

An album mostly of collaborations, with most of them sounding how you think they would given who he’s collaborating with on that track. Not his best.

I dig his voice and guitar work but the 80s production really detracts from hit in my opinion. It does make me want to check out some of his earlier work though.

Saved Prior: None Off Rip: The Healer Cutting Edge: None Overall Notes: I understand that this man is a legend, and he's clearly very confident in his craft on this album. I just don't like blues. Only song I liked was kinda carried by the guests, Santana and the Santana Band.

2/5 nope

I enjoyed parts of it but have always had a hard time getting into straight blues (but love blues rock, blues influenced jazz, etc)

Better slower, better acoustic. *Rockin’ Chair *My Dream

Baš slušljiv i baš meh.

Pretty uneven album. About half the cuts are lame and both the production and John Lee Hooker himself sound aged (not in the way that’s good for a blues musician), particularly the first song, and the other half are solid blues numbers with the last song standing out as being truly poignant. It’s not that bad overall but it gets a 2 because 😈

A classic blues musician held back by 80s production that I dislike so much. The guest list also feels like a slight vanity project, or similar to how Santana was in the mid 00s (convenient he's on here too). Favorite track: "Rockin' Chair"

I found it really boring to be honest

Det var nu ikke hans bedste album. "My Dream" er lidt bedre end de andre. 2,5

Horny jazz

Good sound for blues….

Blues with no passion is terrible.

A bit boring. Some songs sounds improvised, and not very well.

The same okay song, the entire album. Listen to the entire thing and didn't hear anything.

A very distinctive sound equating to a thin pingy guitar tone, a stomping foot, and changing to either a I, IV or V chord whenever the mood strikes him. Some call it primitive and rootsy. I'd call it something else entirely.

Not as much feeling as a expected, seemed to be a bit lackluster in places.

I love blues, but this album is just flat. I wonder why an album like this made this list and none of the albums of Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Not my kind of music, pretty meh

Not really much of a blues guy. But on occasion I can enjoy and appreciate the genre. But not this time. Nothing bad here just nothing that gets me excited. 2.5 🌟

Just not my thing

Not my genre of music but some of it was quite listenable

Must of these collaborations are good and more of a showcase for the relatively younger guitarists. Sacred cow or not, I don't enjoy most of John Lee Hooker's mumbling and guitar picking. 2.5/5

Blues by numbers.

The first song was AWFUL—something you’d hear in a Fair Trade store, everything I hate about world music produced to pander to the 90s white coffeehouse set. It’s for the 90s Starbucks crowd, lame 90s elements fucking up boring blues. I hate most of this album. At one point it “Rocking Chair” sounded like the comedian playing fake jazz piano. I will admit I did some toe tapping on track 3 and 4 and felt the heart of the last track. D. Still better than Anthrax.

Modern communications technology has jaded me. Every track elicited a thought of "I have heard derivations of this on Spotify/Pandora/Sirius/Radio/YouTube/etc". Would have been such an exciting thing to discover this album back when you had to work to listen to and discover music. It's all fine music, that's about all I can say. Maybe it was over produced with all the collaborations happening. Didn't have a unified POV.

Baby Lee is Robert Plant's favourite. Fancies babies. Nonce.

Eerste liedje klinkt bekend en klinkt aangenaam. Daarna verzandt het toch teveel in pure blues. Niet aan mij besteed.

Tja....

Blues.

It had some moments, but dragged on for way too long

Fine. 5/10

strong start but then kinda flopped

Including this is a travesty. John Lee Hooker is a blues legend, so why choose a tinny 1980s album with collabs over any of his more substantial work?

Terribly boring, mumbling blues.

The lyrics the lyrics are repetitive are repetitive. Maybe that is Hooker’s style, but it isn’t for me. Guitar-wise, blues is fine but it all sounds like every other blues song Ive heard.

I know people like this guy, but he is just too into himself to appeal to me. Not my thang!

I dont like this

Vraiment, la seule chose qui manquait au Blues pour que j'aime ça, c'est le fow constant de clichés, une production des années 80 et Santana. I guess que les gars de Black Keys écoutent encore cet album. Pourri.

A blues legend they say. My dad used to love blues and played a lot in his later life, mum used to hate it. She said it was maudlin. I'm with my mum on this. I hope I never have to listen to this old bastard again. It was a painful experience listening to old Hooker repeating the same line, playing the same chords while stamping his foot with ever more intensity as each song progressed. I was hoping for something better, but not even Santana could drag this out of the mire. Not for me, ever.

For the scale of John Lee Hookers prolific career I was expecting to have my mind blown by this album. Two songs in I was desperately ready for it to be over. This is just the most boring same old blues you've heard a billion times before. I generally can see why albums have made the list but this one escapes me. Obviously no disrespect to Mr Hooker but if this is the best of his output I will have to start actively avoiding other recordings from him. 1 star not because it's bad but because it's just the most frightfully boring thing I've ever listened to.

5/19/26. Good opening track, but then deep into blues without experimenting with anything new, especially at its time of release. I have my own bias with blues since I find it predictable.

The only thing worse than waking up to a jazz album is waking up to a blues album.

Belle and Sebastian were right. The blues are still blue.

I could smell this smelly pile of poo from miles away. No thanks.

hard to listen to fr

A poor album made all the poorer by guest artists.

A nauseating, torturous listen for me, the best bits being the brief pauses between songs, or at least the moments before John Lee’s warbling voice meets the never ending, looping chord progressions. It perfectly encapsulates all my least favourite things about blues music. They sound like the unpaid band at the school fete.

First listen

Mr. Hooker might be talented but this music sounds stale, regardless of how much 1989-era studio secret sauce they tried to put on it.

Blues is boring. All sounds the same

Slow-burning electric blues built on repetitive grooves, minimal guitar figures, steady rhythms, and deep, conversational vocals settles into a hypnotic but static flow. Listening feels like sitting in a dim room where the same phrase echoes again and again without ever quite evolving. The atmosphere is authentic and grounded, but the repetition makes the experience feel dull and ultimately boring.

A guy practices the blues with a microphone present

This one was difficult to get through if you’re not into blues. That’s all I have to say on the matter. Every track, quite literally, sounded the same.

Never heard of this album before this and now I know why.

Not for me.

The first half I was feeling good about this album, but then I had to tune out because it was so boring.

Didn't enjoy this at all. Pointless noodling and mumbling. Some nice harmonica. But no thanks

Quite boring and generic. Did nothing for me

sex music for 50 year old white men with 23 year old filipina wives

What's the point? An artist past his prime in a genre past its prime, which wasn't that interesting to begin with. The cast of collaborators is alright, but is not enough to keep from being bland and utterly forgetful.

Couldn't get through one song.

Tubeless and dreary.

This album is a bit of a travesty due to the collaborators and dodgy production. Clearly a cash grab, although Hooker probably deserved it. Not sure why it’s on this list rather than a proper Hooker album.

This album has great, innovative, fresh, exciting lyrics like when he says he ain't gonna be your fool no more and he's rocking these blues away, or when he says his baby's done him wrong, but that's alright The only thing that could possibly make this album more captivating is if he takes these creatively-inspired lines and repeats them a few more times (so that the listener can soak all that depth in) to the same predictable melodies unchanged from decades ago I don't know the value of a blues album like this from the year 1989, or why it would be in the 1001 list, and even moreso I don't understand why this album is rated so high, there's a couple cool tracks, Cuttin' Out was entertaining, but the track stretch of Sally Mae > That's Alright > Rockin' Chair was about as dull as near-brain death (with some emotion in the singing on the latter track being the only remaining sign of life) am I so out of touch? no, it's the Gen X'ers who are wrong! cover's kind of cool though. only at the time of writing this did I realize dude wasn't a frog

i hate that late 80s/90s keyboard sound so i didnt make it past track 2

Nope

1+ Stars (3/15)

12 bar snooze

Only first track is decent

A man who mumbles words while playing the same guitar lick for 40 minutes. 1/10

Add another corpse to the pile of recent disappointments...

Ja, ja - Blues. Nix für mich.

Ça commence très fort avec l’association du blues et des solos interminables et énervants de Santana. Cheesy et passionnant comme une musique d’attente d’un club de musique un peu ringard... Formidable -_- Sinon c’est du blues où il passe son temps à chanter qu’il a le blues. Il finit même par y avoir un peu de souffrances sur certains solos et certaines notes criardes. Cette histoire des 1001 albums m’aura amené à découvrir de nouvelles choses et à l’inverse confirmé quelques certitudes, la principale étant que je hais le blues de toutes mes forces.

no es para mi

Trop blues à mon goût, trop de wahwah dans la voix. 3/10

This is exactly the kind of blues music I don't like from the 70's and 80's. It lacks the grit of early blues music with too much shine, and it reduces it to something that feels like the blues' version of elevator jazz. There are some impressive guests on this album, but if I ever want to listen to blues music, I'm going to listen to much older stuff, stuff made to sound more like older blues, or listen to more avant garde/experimental blues stuff.

Most of this is exactly the kind of blues that I find super boring.

1/5

Somehow this album is a Grammy Award winner!? Don’t waste your time, seek out his earlier work instead.

We played at a blues festival on the Isle of Wight and after the gig there was a late night Jam session and it basically sounded exactly like this for about four hours. I went to bed after 10 minutes because it sounded exactly like this but I could hear it downstairs for a long time after and it was just as dull as this is

Return-to-form plade for John Lee Hooker hvor han samarbejder med en masse kendte musikere I guess? Det her gjorde virkelig ikke noget for mig.

Bit boring. Presumably good if you like basic blues.

I've been laughing at Teddy's review for like 3 days now but on the other hand........there's so few pure blues albums on this list and ****this**** is one of the ones they go with? I really wasn't sold on this album in general but knowing that this is one of, if not the token blues albums on this list, out of a genre that consciously or not influenced, idk, a solid 90% of the rock albums on this list, feels totally ridiculous. Like I just checked and not even The Fucking London Howlin' Wolf London Sessions is on this list! What are we doing here!

god I hate blues

After first song I was willing to cut this album some slack, but I just can't. It feels like someone keeps pressing the left arrow button. I just heard this line sir do not repeat please can this song go somewhere AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

not my vibe

heres what we'll do. thats blues legend john lee hooker. how do we represent him on this album list? lets do it with a random excuse for a piss up with carlos santana in the late 80's. that'll do it. terrible.

Die ersten beiden Titel des Albums mit Santana und Bonnie Raitt sind Kracher. Und wenn der Rest des Albums genauso wäre... Der ist aber nur mit traditionellem Delta-Blues gefüllt, der für mich auf die Dauer ermüdend ist.

Lord, Lord, Lord Blues a healer, all over the world, all over the world Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord Healed me, healed, healed, healed It healed me It healed me, to heal me Can heal you, can heal you, heal you, if you let it He can play guitar, he cant write decent lyrics. Pass.

Blues. 1/5

What a slog. I just don't get the appeal.

Not for me

I guess I'm not a huge fan of blues. The first song was fine, but every other song started to piss me off. Those last three songs were especially bad. He's just loosely playing the guitar while he stutters the same thing over and over. It was really frustrating to listen to. Just say what you're trying to say, please. The songs don't really do anything over their duration either. I would say the guest musicians helped, and I guess they did a little bit, but it was still bad. My favourite song was The Healer.

so fucking boring

Jag gillar inte blues.

Blues is not really for me

I have never particularly enjoyed the blues. This isn't changing my mind. So very dull. I hate it.

Why would they pick a shitty duets album to represent one of the best bluesmen of all time?

Not my jam...nothing really compelling about it. 1.5/5

I lost whatever interest I had in this album very quickly.

I honestly can't tell if there are more than one song here. It all sounds exactly the same. Right down to the reverb that is so heavy handed, I can barely hear the vocals...

same as previous album,.not my thing

Not my cup of tea, found it rather boring. 1/5

Flicked through a couple of tracks but quickly realised this album needed more spirit, more spirit of the blues in fact... So get your coat on and get moving cos we don’t know the meaning of losing so come on, come on, get down to goodison park. wooooo

Dull. An album made for marketing reasons.

I thought I was going to like this album. Most songs feel like they go nowhere; however it's great to listen to the first minute, but then it just repeats and repeats and repeats. It gets on your nerves pretty darn quickly. The vocals are never good in any song. They're constantly repeating and are just awful all the way through. Throughout the album, the music has its moments, but most of the time it's just like the vocals in that it just repeats constantly. I really expected more out of this album, but nevertheless, it was a disappointing experience.

Pas un fan de blues à la base et cet album ne m'a pas fait changer d'avis malheureusement. Le son de flute de pan synth dans la première toune est hilarant, à part ça je suis resté sur ma faim pas mal, c'est un musicien légendaire mais cet album ne l'est pas. Des grand bout je sens le bassiste sur le radar : "quand est-ce qu'on va au IV déjà?!?" Style... J'aurais préférer un album plus vieux qui l'a révélé ou qqch plus root je sais pas.... Leurs choix commencent à m'épuiser...

C’est franchement mauvais. Ça commence avec du E-piano... pas bon ça. Ensuite, il y a plein de mauvaise compréhension harmoniques dans l’album. On dirait qu’il ne sait pas quand ça va aller au IV. C’est encore pire pour Bonnie Raitt. Les 3 meilleures toune sont les 3 où il est seul et sur la 1re des 3, on dirait qu’il ne sait pas du tout jouer de la guitare. Il n’y a que « No substitute » qui soit un peu venue me chercher.

Grand respect pour l’artiste et je comprends que cet album a été son plus gros vendeur grâce aux collaborateurs. Par contre, je ne reviendrai pas à cet album. Je vais plutôt aller fouiller dans ses plus vieux enregistrements.

boring and not impressed

sigh

Bored to death by this album. Probably need to relisten at a later date. ?/10

Never liked JLH. I don't understand why he's popular. He just outlived all the other great blues musicians.

The guitar is good. But it is not music I really enjoyed. It would be okay live in a bar however, with a lot of drink involved

Late 80s romance blues? Uninspiring. Guy can strum a guitar sure, but this was boring.

Veldig kjedelig album, ikkje min type musikk. Veldig sånn «elvis-musikk». Alle sangane va veldig like, og eg komme nok aldri til å høra på detta igjen

not for me

No no no no more blues. No no no no amount of collaborations can save this album of late 80s CPAP blues. D

Ja, gewoon kut natuurlijk. Met die irritante santana er ook nog bij...

just not my thing at all.

Can definitely see the critically-acclaimed moniker for this album. That said, it's not a personal preference and not something I would listen to on repeat.

Technically proficient but the blues is NOT my jam at all.

Capa assusta mas as músicas são bem melódicas e blues, o tiozinho canta bem também e os instrumentos são bem usados também sla 7.5/10