Chill Out (John Lee Hooker album)

The Healer
Studio album by John Lee Hooker
Released 1995 (1995)
Studio Russian Hill Recording Studios, San Francisco
Genre Blues
Label Point Blank
Virgin 7243 8 40107 2 0
Producer Roy Rogers
John Lee Hooker chronology
Mr Lucky
(1991)Mr Lucky1991		 Chill Out
(1995)		 Don't Look Back
(1997)Don't Look Back1997

Chill Out is a 1995 album by John Lee Hooker featuring Van Morrison, Carlos Santana, Charles Brown, and Booker T. Jones and produced by Roy Rogers, Santana and Hooker himself.[1] Tracks 1 to 11 were recorded and mixed at Russian Hill Recording, San Francisco and The Plant, Sausalito, California. The album reached No.3 in the US Blues chart and was awarded Handy Award Traditional Blues Album Of The Year.[2]

Track listing

All songs written by Hooker except where noted:

  1. Chill Out (Things Gonna Change) - written John Lee Hooker Carlos Santana Chester Thompson[3]
  2. Deep Blue Sea
  3. Kiddio - written Brook Benton Clyde Otis
  4. Medley: Serves Me Right To Suffer / Syndicator
  5. One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
  6. Tupelo
  7. Woman On My Mind
  8. Annie Mae
  9. Too Young
  10. Talkin' The Blues
  11. If You've Never Been In Love
  12. We'll Meet Again - written Deacon Jones and G.K. Fowler

References

  1. ↑ Billboard - Mar 16, 1996 Vol. 108, No. 11 - Page 23 Best Traditional Blues Album John Lee Hooker Chill Out featuring Van Morrison, Carlos Santana, Charles Brown, Booker T. Jones Produced by Roy Rogers, Carlos Santana and John ..."
  2. ↑ Billboard - May 25, 1996 Vol. 108, No. 21 - Page 47 "Pointblank congratulates our 1996 Handy Award winners John Lee Hooker Chill Out Traditional Blues Album Of The Year"
  3. ↑ CMJ New Music Monthly -No. 20 Apr 1995 - Page 29 "The song, "Chill Out," may shoot straight for the post-MOR VH-I crowd, but it fails to undercut the high-mindedness of Hooker's credo: "I'll sing it for the people who feel the way I feel." "
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