50 Years: John Lee Hooker Anthology

The 2-CD set 50 Years: The John Lee Hooker Anthology covers blue legend’s entire career from his out-of-the-box 1948 R&B #1 hit "Boogie Chillen’" all the way up to his final recordings in the late ’90s. This anthology covers five decades of highlights in between, including his groundbreaking one-man/one-guitar vamps ("Crawlin’ King Snake"), bar-band blues ("Dimples"), Funk Brothers-backed pop-blues ("Boom Boom"), blues-rock with Canned Heat ("Peavine"), and career-renaissance duets with Eric Clapton, Santana, Van Morrison, and Bonnie Raitt (including the Grammy-winning duet "I’m in the Mood"). It all adds up to the most complete 2-CD John Lee Hooker overview ever released.