rare 1966 Blues 7" JOHN LEE HOOKER - Mai Lee on Planet with The Groundhogs HEAR
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*** Killer John Lee Hooker 45 rpm ***
Two killer rockin' John Lee Hooker tunes recorded in the UK in 1965. Hooker is backed by UK cult Blues band The Groundhogs (who for instance supported The Rolling Stones on their 1971 British tour at the request of Mick Jagger).
Hooker needs no introduction, instead here's some info about The Groundhogs:
In the early 1960s Tony (TS) McPhee was working for Post Office Telephones and joined his work mate John Cruickshank's band, which was then called 'The Dollarbills'. Neither liking the name or the 'pop' music they played, he persuaded them to start playing Blues and R&B after he had seen Cyril Davies and the All-Stars playing at the Marquee club and suggested 'Groundhogs' as a name for the band, after a track on John Lee Hooker's album 'House of the Blues'.
Tony and the band played all of the gigs on the blossoming blues circuit and then backed Hooker on the final week of his first British tour, when John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers were unable to fulfill the commitment. John liked the band so much that he always asked for them to back him on British tours and preferred to travel with them in their Commer van. In an interview of the time he called them the 'number one British blues band'. At around the same time the Hogs also backed Champion Jack Dupree who later said in an interview with Melody Maker that they were 'the best band he'd ever played with'. In 1965 the Hogs backed Hooker on an album which was initially called John Lee Hooker, but which has also been re-released as 'Hooker & the Hogs', & 'The London Sessions'
This 45 is from that session/LP. When backing Hooker the group was called John Lee's Groundhogs.
artist: John Lee Hooker titles: Mai Lee / Don't Be Messing Around With My Bread label: Planet ?–PLF. 114 year: 1966 dead wax: PLF 114 2F?11 1 1 / PLF 114 1F?11 1 1 condition: (grading is from 1 to 10 with 10 being new) visually: 6 out of 10 (scuffs and scratches - it's seen better days - but still a ok copy) plays: 7 to 8 out of 10 (good strong player)
note: the picture of John Lee and The Groundhogs is NOT included.
Listen to both sides of the record:
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