John Lee Hooker (2,930 views)

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John Lee Hooker (22.08.1917 - 21.06.2001)
Years Active: 1942 - 2001
Vocal Range: G1 - F5


Significant High Notes:
F5 ("Deep Blue Sea", "Let's Go Out Tonight", "Mini Skirts", "You Know, I Know")
E5 ("Boom Boom" 1967 version, "I'm Goin' Upstairs", "I'm Leaving" live The Beat Room 1964, "Mai Lee", "Shake It Baby")

D5 ("Catfish Blues" 1966 version, "(Twist Ain't Nothin') But The Old Time Shimmy", "Want Ad Blues" 1966 version, "We're Gonna Do The Shout" live Montreal 1980, "You're Wrong")

C5 ("Boogie Chillen No. 2" live Capitol Theatre 1984, "Peace Loving Man")

B4 ("Bang Bang Bang Bang", "Boogie at Russian Hill", "I'm Goin' Upstairs", "Lead Me (You Can Lead Me Baby)" 1966 version, "Stand By Me Baby")
B♭4 ("I Just Can't Hold On Much Longer" live at Sugar Hill)
A4 ("I'm Just a Drifter", "Shake Your Boogie")
G4 ("Boogie Chillen'" Live Switzerland 1983, "Grievin' Blues" 1949 version, "Hey, Baby You Look Good To Me", "Lead Me (You Can Lead Me Baby)" 1966 version, "Rock Steady" live Quebec 1977, "Stella Mae", "We're Gonna Do The Shout" live Montreal 1980, "You Know, I Know")
F♯4 ("Blues For Big Town", "I Can See You When You're Weak", "I Wanna Be Your Puppy Baby", "Prison Bound", "The Road Is So Rough" alternate version, "Sail On Little Girl", "Who's Been Jiving You")
F4 ("Bluebird Blues", "Boogie Chillen No. 2" live Chicago 1976, "Boogie Rambler", "Boom Boom" live Chicago 1976, "Cold Chills", "Don't Trust Nobody", "Goin' Mad Blues", "Grinder Man", "Hug and Squeeze" 1963 version, "I Come To You Baby", "I Got Drunk", "I Love You Baby", "I Need Love So Bad" 1954 version, "I Put My Trust In You", "I Tried Hard", "I'm In The Mood" 1951 version, "I'm Leaving", "I'm Ready", "I'm So Worried Baby", "It's My Own Fault", "The Journey", "Jump Me", "Keep Your Hands to Yourself", "Key To The Highway", "Let Your Daddy Ride", "Let's Make It", "Little Boy Blue", "Locked Up in Jail", "Louise", "Mad With You Baby", "Mama, You Got A Daughter", "Mean Mean Woman", "Miss Eloise", "(Miss Sadie Mae) Curl My Babys Hair", "Must Wait Til Your Man is Gone", "No Shoes", "Nobody To Talk To Me", "Odds Against Me (Backbiters and Syndicators)", "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer", "Onions", "Peace Loving Man", "Poor Me", "Process", "Ramblin' By Myself", "The Road Is So Rough", "Rock Me Mama" alternate take, "Rocks", "Roll Me Baby", "Run On", "She's Mine", "Someone To Love", "Stella Mae", "Stop Talking", "Sugar Mama", "Taxi Driver", "Tell Mama" live Fillmore Auditorium 1986, "Thelma", "Time is Marching", "Unfriendly Woman", "Union State Blues", "Wandering Blues" 1950 version, "Where Did You Stay Last Night")
E4 ("713 Blues", "714 Blues", "Alberta", "Baby Be Strong", "Baby, I Love You", "Back to Your Mother", "Bang Bang Bang Bang", "Big Road", "Black Cat Blues", "Boogie Chillen No. 2"Canned Heat version, "Boogie With the Hook", "Boom Boom" 1967 version, "Bottle Up & Go" 1992 version, "Build Myself a Cave", "Bumble Bee Blues", "Cat Fish", "Cool Little Car", "Country Boy", "Crawlin' Black Spider", "Crawlin' King Snake" live 1971, "Cuttin' Out", "Don't Be Messin' With My Bread", "Don't Look Back", "Don't You Remember Me", "Drifter", "Drive Me Away", "Endless Boogie, Parts 27 & 28", "Everybody Rockin'", "Fire Down Below", "Five Long Years", "Get Back Home in the USA", "Going Down", "Going Home", "Goin' South", "Hard Headed Woman", "Hey, Baby You Look Good To Me", "Highway Blues", "Hit the Road", "Hobo Blues", "Hold On Baby", "Homework", "Hot Spring Water, Part II", "House Rent Boogie" 1958 version, "Howlin' Wolf", "Hug and Squeeze", "I Came to See You Baby", "I Can't Quit You Baby", "I Can't Stand To Leave You", "I Don't Need No Steam Heat", "I Feel Good", "I Got Eyes For You", "(I Got) A Good 'Un", "I Gotta Go to Vietnam", "I Keep the Blues", "I Wanna Be Your Puppy Baby", "I Wanna Dance All Night", "I'm a Boogie Man", "I'm Goin' Home", "I'm Goin' Upstairs", "I'm So Excited", "I'm Standing In Line", "It Hurts Me So", "It Serves Me Right to Suffer" live Carnegie Hall 1971, "It's Stormin' and Rainin'", "It's Time For Lovin' To Be Done", "Leavin' Chicago", "Let Your Daddy Ride", "Letter to my Baby", "Little Fine Woman" alternate version, "Little Girl Go Back to School", "Lonesome Mood", "Looking For Romance", "Lou Della", "Mad Man Blues", "The Motor City Is Burning", "Mr. Lucky", "Mustang and GTO", "My Own Blues", "Natchez Fire (Burnin')" live Newport 1963, "Ninety Days (Reprise)", "No More Doggin' (No More Foolin')" 1954 version, "No One Pleases Me But You", "No One Told Me (People Are Talking)", "Nobody Else But You" live Carnegie Hall 1971, "Prison Bound", "Rainy Day", "Real Real Gone", "Roll and Tumble", "Sailin' Blues", "Send Me Your Pillow" Canned Heat version, "Shake It Baby", "She Ain't Good For Nothin'", "Sittin' In My Dark Room", "Stand By", "Standin' At The Crossroads", "Susie", "The Syndicator", "Talk To Your Daughter", "Tell Me You Love Me", "That's Alright", "Think Twice Before You Go", "Trick Bag (Shoppin' for my Tombstone)", "Wayne Country Ramblin' Blues", "We're Gonna Do The Shout" live Montreal 1980, "Wednesday Evening Blues" 1960 version, "What The Matter Baby", "Whiskey And Wimmen'" Canned Heat version, "Why Put Me Down", "Will The Circle Been Unbroken", "You Know, I Know", "You Receive Me", "You Sure Look Good to Me", "Younger Stud", "Your Baby Ain't Sweet Like Mine", "You're Looking Good Tonight", "You've Got Another Man")
E♭4 ("21 Boogie", "Apologize", "Baby Baby", "Baby I'm Gonna Miss You", "Baby You Ain't No Good", "Birmingham Blues", "Blue Mondy (I Ain't Got Nobody)", "Blues Before Sunrise", "Boogie Chillen No. 2", "Canal Street Blues" 1960 version, "Church Bell Tone", "Deep Down In My Heart", "Do the Boogie", "Down At The Landing", "Down Child", "Dreamin' Blues", "Dusty Road", "Every Night", "Frisco Blues", "Give Me Your Phone Number", "Goin' Home Blues", "Goin' To California", "Good Rockin' Mama", "Grievin' Blues" 1949 version, "Half a Stranger", "Helpless Blues", "Hey Baby", "High Priced Woman", "How Long Must I Be Your Slave", "I Been Done So Wrong", "I Do Like I Please", "I Don't Want Your Money", "I Just Can't Hold On Much Longer" live at Sugar Hill, "I Love You Baby", "I Need Love So Bad", "I Wish You Could Change Your Ways" Alone Vol.2, "I Wonder Little Darling", "I'll Know Tonight", "I'm A Stranger", "I'm Leaving", "I'm Mad", "I'm So Worried Baby", "It's Been a Long Time Baby", "Just Me And My Telephone", "Landing Blues", "Let's Make It", "Little Boy Blue", "Little Fine Woman", "Little Wheel", "Lonely Boy Boogie", "Lord What More Can I Do", "Louise", "Love Money Can't Buy", "Misbelieving Baby (My Baby Put me Down)", "Money (That's What I Want)", "Moon Is Rising", "My Mother-In-Law Moved In", "Need Somebody", "A New Leaf", "No Mortgage On My Soul", "Nothin' But Trouble", "Notoriety Woman", "Old Time Shimmy", "One Way Ticket", "Onions", "Poor Me", "Process", "Put Your Hand On Your Hip" Alone Vol.2, "Ramblin' By Myself", "Ride 'Til I Die", "The Road Is So Rough", "Rock House Boogie", "Rock Me Mama", "Send Me Your Pillow", "Shady Grove Blues", "Shake It Up and Go", "She Shot Me Down", "Solid Sender", "Stop Talking", "Strike Blues", "Thelma", "The Things I Tell You To Do", "Three Long Years Today", "Travelin' Day And Night", "Trouble Blues", "Turnin' Gray Blues", "Union State Blues", "Wandering Blues", "Weeping Willow Boogie", "Welfare Blues", "What Do You Say", "Wheel and Deal", "Whistle Down Blown", "Whiskey And Wimmen'", "Wobblin' Baby" 1959 version, "Women and Money", "You Can Lead Me Baby", "You Live Your Life and I'll Live Mine", "You've Taken My Woman")
D4 ("713 Blues", "Ain't No Big Thing", "Baby Don't You Wanna Go", "Baby, I Love You", "Backstabbers", "Ballad To Abraham Lincoln", "Bang Bang Bang Bang", "Big Boss Lady", "Big Legs, Tight Skirt", "Big Road", "Blues Before Sunrise", "Boogie at Russian Hill", "Boogie Chillen", "Bumblebee Bumblebee", "Burning Hell" Canned Heat version, "Canal Street Blues", "Catfish Blues", "Christmas Time Blues", "Cold Chills", "Country Boy", "Cuttin' Out", "Dazie Mae", "Decoration Day Blues", "Deep Blue Sea", "Devil's Jump", "Dimples" 1992 version, "Do My Baby Think of Me", "Drifter", "Drifting From Door to Door", "Early One Morning", "Everybody's Blues", "Face to Face", "The Feelin' Is Gone", "Funky Mabel", "Get Back Home in the USA", "Goin' On Highway #51", "Going Down", "Grinder Man", "Half a Stranger", "The Healer", "Hey, Baby You Look Good To Me", "Homework", "Hot Spring Water, Part I", "Hot Spring Water, Part II", "Hug and Squeeze", "I Believe I'll Go Back Home", "I Came to See You Baby", "I Can't Quit You Baby", "I Come To You Baby", "I Didn't Know", "I Don't Care When You Go", "I Don't Want No Woman If Her Hair Ain't No Longer Than Mine (Short-Haired Woman)", "I Don't Wanna Go To Vietnam", "I Feel Good", "I Got My Eyes on You", "I Left My Baby", "I Like To See You Walk", "I Love You Honey", "I Wanna Bugaloo", "I Wanna Walk", "I'll Never Trust Your Love Again", "I'm Bad Like Jesse James" Live at Cafe Au Go Go, "I'm Goin' Home", "I'm Gonna Kill That Woman", "I'm In The Mood", "If You Take Care of Me, I'll Take Care of You", "It's a Crazy Mixed Up World", "It's My Own Fault", "It's Raining Here", "Keep Your Hands to Yourself", "Kiddio", "Leave My Wife Alone", "Leavin' Chicago", "Let Your Daddy Ride", "Let's Go Out Tonight", "Little Dreamer", "Little Girl Go Back to School", "Lonely Man", "Lonesome Mood", "Lookin' For a Woman", "Looking Back Over My Day", "Lou Della", "Love Affair", "Love Me All the Time", "Love My Baby", "Mad With You Baby", "Mai Lee", "Make It Funky", "Maudie" 1959 version, "Me and a Woman", "Mean Woman", "Mean Mean Woman", "Messin' With the Hook", "Might As Well Say We're Through", "Mini Skirts", "(Miss Sadie Mae) Curl My Babys Hair", "The Motor City Is Burning", "Mr. Lucky", "My Baby Don't Love Me", "My Name Is Ringing", "My Own Blues", "Natchez Fire (Burnin')" live Newport 1963, "Nightmare Blues" 1958 version, "Ninety Days", "No Friend Around", "No More Doggin' (No More Foolin')", "No One Pleases Me But You", "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer", "One Of These Days", "Peace Loving Man", "Please Have Mercy", "Please Take Me Back", "Pots On, Gas On High", "Rainy Day", "Reach my Goal", "Red House", "Risin' Sun (Louisiana Voo-Doo)", "Rocks", "Roll and Tumble", "Roll Me Baby", "Roll N' Roll", "Rollin' Blues", "Questionnaire Blues", "Same Old Blues Again", "Seven Days and Seven Nights", "Shake It Baby", "She Left Me By Myself", "Someone To Love", "Sometimes You Make Me Feel So Bad" live Newport 1963, "Stand By Me Baby", "Stella Mae", "Stop Jivin' Me", "Strike Blues", "Sugar Mama", "Susie", "Talk To Your Daughter", "Teachin' the Blues", "Tease Me Baby" live Carnegie Hall 1971, "That's Alright", "Think Twice Before You Go", "Thinking Blues", "Travellin' Blues", "(Twist Ain't Nothin') But The Old Time Shimmy", "Up and Down", "Walkin' This Highway", "Want Ad Blues", "We Gonna Make Everything Alright", "Wednesday Evening Blues", "What The Matter Baby", "Where Did You Stay Last Night", "Who's Been Jiving You", "Why Put Me Down", "Wobbling Baby", "Woman on my Mind", "Worried Life Blues" live Blue Monday Party 1981, "You Know, I Know", "You Talk To Much", "(You'll Never Amount To Anything If You Don't Go To) Collage (A Fortuitous Concatenation Of Events)", "Younger Stud", "Your Baby Ain't Sweet Like Mine", "You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone", "You're Leavin' Me, Baby", "You're Looking Good Tonight", "You're Wrong")
C♯4 ("Bad Boy", "Black Cat Blues", "Blue Mondy (I Ain't Got Nobody)", "Build Myself a Cave", "Burning Hell", "Church Bell Tone", "Cool Little Car", "Cry Before I Go", "Devil's Jump", "Do the Boogie", "Don't You Remember Me", "Down Child", "Forgive Me", "Four Women In My Life", "Frisco Blues", "Give Me Your Phone Number", "Goin' Mad Blues", "Going Home", "Gonna Use My Rod", "Good Rockin' Mama", "Graveyard Blues" 1959 version, "Grievin' Blues", "The Healing Game", "Heat Trouble Blues", "Highway Blues", "I Love To Boogie" alternate take, "I'll Never Get Out of These Blues Alive" live New York 1976, "I'm Prison Bound", "It's Stormin' and Rainin'", "It's Time For Lovin' To Be Done", "Landing Blues", "Late Last Night", "Like a Woman", "Love Blues", "Lovin' Guitar Man", "Mambo Chillun", "Mean Old Train", "Mercy Blues", "Moaning Blues", "Money (That's What I Want)", "Mustang and GTO", "My Baby She's Long and Tall", "Natchez Fire (Burnin')", "Nightmare Blues", "Playin' The Races", "Prison Bound", "Queen Bee", "Road Trouble", "Sail On Little Girl", "She Left Me on My Bended Knee" Alone Vol.2, "She's Long, She's Tall, She Weeps Like a Willow", "Sometime", "Take a Look At Yourself", "That's My Story", "Turn Over a New Leaf", "Twister Blues", "Two White Horses", "Walking the Boogie" 1960 version, "Wandering Blues", "Will The Circle Be Unbroken", "The World Today", "Worried Life Blues", "You Live Your Life and I'll Live Mine")
C4 ("Ain't No Love In This House", "Alimonia Blues", "Anybody Seen My Baby", "Anybody's Blues", "Apologize", "Baby Baby", "Baby Be Strong", "Baby Lee", "Baby, Please Don't Go", "Birmingham Blues", "Black Man Blues", "Blues Before Sunrise", "Ballad To Abraham Lincoln", "Boom Boom", "Chill Out (Things Gonna Change)", "Deep Down In My Heart", "Dimples", "Every Night", "Feed Her All Night", "Five Long Years", "Give Me Your Phone Number", "The Healer", "Helpless Blues", "High Priced Woman", "Hobo Blues", "How Can You Do It", "I Ain't Gonna Suffer No More", "I Believe I'll Go Back Home", "I Can't Believe", "I Don't Want Your Money", "(I Got) A Good 'Un", "I Got a Letter", "I Keep the Blues", "I Love Her", "I Need Love So Bad", "I Wanna Be Your Puppy Baby", "I Won't Be Back No More" Alone Vol.2, "If You've Never Been In Love", "I'll Know Tonight", "I'm Just a Drifter", "I'm Wanderin'", "It's Been a Long Time Baby", "Keep Your Hands to Yourself", "Left My Wife And My Baby", "Let's Make It", "Let's Talk It Over", "Locked Up in Jail", "Lost a Good Girl", "Love Is a Burning Thing", "Mean Mean Woman", "Mini Skirts", "Misbelieving Baby (My Baby Put me Down)", "The Moon Above", "Moon Is Rising", "Morning Blues", "My Grinding Mill", "A New Leaf", "No Shoes", "Nobody To Talk To Me", "Notoriety Woman", "Old Time Shimmy", "One More Time", "One Way Ticket", "Onions", "Peavine", "Poor Me", "Process", "Real Gone Gal", "Risin' Sun (Louisiana Voo-Doo)", "Rock Me Mama", "Rock These Blues Away", "Rockin' Chair", "Roll N' Roll", "Sally Mae" 1989 version, "Send Me Your Pillow", "Shake It Up and Go", "She Loves My Best Friend", "She's Mine", "Sittin' In My Dark Room", "Spellbound", "Stripped Me Naked", "Sunny Land", "Talkin' Boogie", "Tantalizing With the Blues", "Taxi Driver", "T.B. Is Killing Me", "Thelma", "This is Hip", "Three Long Years Today", "Travelin' Day And Night", "Trick Bag (Shoppin' for my Tombstone)", "(Twist Ain't Nothin') But The Old Time Shimmy", "Walking the Boogie", "We'll Meet Again", "What Do You Say", "Woman on my Mind", "You Move Me")

Significant Low Notes:
C3 ("Anybody Seen My Baby", "Black Man Blues", "Boogie Chillen No. 2", "Boogie Now", "Boom Boom", "Chill Out (Things Gonna Change)", "Decoration Day Blues", "Deep Down In My Heart", "Don't Look Back", "Every Night", "Give Me Your Phone Number", "Good Rockin' Mama", "Hey, Baby You Look Good To Me", "High Priced Woman", "How Can You Do It", "I Do Like I Please", "I Don't Wanna Go To Vietnam", "I Love To Boogie", "I Love You Honey", "Jump Me", "The Land Is Nobody's Land", "Left My Wife And My Baby", "Let's Go Out Tonight", "Let's Make It", "Let's Talk It Over", "Lost a Good Girl", "Louise", "Love Is a Burning Thing", "Love Money Can't Buy", "Make It Funky", "Moon Is Rising", "My Baby's Got Somethin'", "My Mother-In-Law Moved In", "A New Leaf", "No Mortgage On My Soul", "No One Told Me (People Are Talking)", "Nobody Knows", "Notoriety Woman", "Old Time Shimmy", "Peavine", "Poor Me", "Rock Me Mama", "Run On", "Shake It Up and Go", "Shake Your Boogie", "Stop Talking", "Stripped Me Naked", "Take a Look At Yourself", "Talkin' Boogie", "This is Hip", "Throw This Old Dog a Bone", "Travelin' Day And Night", "Trouble Blues", "Twister Blues", "We'll Meet Again", "You Know I Love You", "You're Leavin' Me, Baby", "You've Taken My Woman")
B2 ("714 Blues", "Alberta", "Baby Don't Do Me Wrong", "Baby Don't You Wanna Go", "Back to Your Mother", "Canal Street Blues", "Crawlin' Black Spider", "Crazy 'Bout That Woman", "Dazie Mae", "Devil's Jump", "Doin' the Shout", "Down So Long", "Drifter", "Drive Me Away", "Early One Morning", "The Feelin' Is Gone", "Forgive Me", "Goin' On Highway #51", "Graveyard Blues", "Hard Headed Woman", "The Healing Game", "Homework", "Huckle Up Baby", "I'm Gonna Kill That Woman", "I'm So Excited", "It Hurts Me So", "Just You and Me", "Little Rain", "Lookin' For a Woman", "Mad Man Blues", "Me and a Woman", "Mean Woman", "Messin' With the Hook", "Miss Lorraine", "Miss Rosie Mae", "(Miss Sadie Mae) Curl My Babys Hair", "Momma Poppa Boogie", "Natchez Fire (Burnin')", "Never Satisfied", "Nightmare Blues", "Ninety Days", "No Friend Around", "No One Pleases Me But You", "Pea Vine Special", "Please Have Mercy", "Poor Slim", "Reach my Goal", "Roll Me Baby", "See, See Baby", "Send Me Your Pillow" Canned Heat version, "She Left Me By Myself", "She Was in Chicago", "Sometime", "Stella Mae", "Stop Jivin' Me", "Tease Me Baby", "The Things I Tell You To Do", "Thinking Blues", "Tuesday Evening", "Want Ad Blues", "Wayne Country Ramblin' Blues", "Wednesday Evening Blues", "Whiskey And Wimmen'" Canned Heat version, "Who's Been Jiving You", "Why Put Me Down", "You Talk To Much")
B♭2 ("Baby Lee", "Bad Boy", "Burning Hell", "Canal Street Blues" 1960 version, "Cold Chills", "Country Boy", "Decoration Day Blues" 1966 version, "Devil's Jump", "Down Child", "Goin' Home Blues", "Gotta Boogie", "Grievin' Blues", "Half a Stranger", "Highway Blues", "I Got Drunk", "I Got Eyes For You", "I Love Her", "I Want To Talk About You", "I'll Know Tonight", "I'll Never Trust Your Love Again", "I'm A Stranger", "I'm Prison Bound", "I'm So Worried Baby", "It's My Own Fault", "Key To The Highway", "Late Last Night", "Leave My Wife Alone", "Let's Go Out Tonight", "Little Boy Blue", "Little Fine Woman", "Little Wheel", "Love Blues", "Mercy Blues", "Miss Eloise", "Money (That's What I Want)", "Peace Loving Man", "Playin' The Races", "Rock Me Mama", "Rocks", "Rollin' Blues", "Sally Mae", "She's Long, She's Tall, She Weeps Like a Willow", "Take a Look At Yourself", "Wandering Blues", "War Is Over", "Will The Circle Be Unbroken", "The World Today", "You Can Lead Me Baby")
A2 ("Ain't No Love In This House", "Alimonia Blues", "Baby Be Strong", "Baby, Please Don't Go", "Bad Luck And Trouble", "Black Cat Blues", "Boogie Woman", "Build Myself a Cave", "Christmas Time Blues", "Come On Baby", "Crawlin' King Snake", "Crazy 'Bout That Woman", "Dimples" Face to Face version, "Don't Look Back", "Drifting From Door to Door", "Every Night", "Everybody's Blues", "Five Long Years", "Get Back Home in the USA", "Goin' Mad Blues", "Goin' South", "Ground Hog Blues", "Have Mercy On My Soul!", "Hi-Heel Sneakers", "Highway 13", "Hobo Blues", "Howlin' Wolf", "I Ain't Gonna Suffer No More", "I Don't Need No Steam Heat", "I Had a Dream Last Night", "I Wanna Be Your Puppy Baby", "I Want To Ramble", "I'm So Excited", "It's Stormin' and Rainin'", "Lead Me (You Can Lead Me Baby)" 1966 version, "Leavin' Chicago", "Let's Talk It Over", "Lovin' Guitar Man", "Mean Old Train", "Mean Woman", "Meet Me in the Bottom", "Miss Lorraine", "The Moon Above", "My Daddy Was a Jockey", "My Grinding Mill", "Nightmare Blues" 1958 version, "No More Doggin' (No More Foolin')", "No Substitute", "Nothin' But Trouble", "Peavine", "Poor Slim", "Queen Bee", "Ramblin' By Myself", "Real Gone Gal", "Rock House Boogie", "Roll and Tumble", "Settin' On Top of the World", "She Loves My Best Friend", "She Was in Chicago", "A Sheep Out On The Foam", "Sittin' Here Thinkin'", "Sittin' In My Dark Room", "Spellbound", "Stand By Me Baby", "Take Me As I Am", "T.B. Is Killing Me", "T.B. Sheets", "Tennessee Blues", "Thought I Heard", "Too Young", "Trick Bag (Shoppin' for my Tombstone)", "Turn Over a New Leaf" Face to Face version, "The Waterfront", "Wednesday Evening Blues", "What The Matter Baby", "When My First Wife Left Me", "Whiskey And Wimmen'" Canned Heat version, "You Move Me", "(You'll Never Amount To Anything If You Don't Go To) Collage (A Fortuitous Concatenation Of Events)", "You've Got Another Man")
G♯2 ("Baby Baby", "Baby You Ain't No Good", "Bad Boy", "Behind the Plow", "Black Snake", "Boogie Chillen" Alone Vol.2, "Bundle Up And Go", "Decoration Day Blues" 1966 version, "Down At The Landing", "Frisco Blues", "Gonna Use My Rod", "Good Business", "Hobo Blues" 1959 version, "How Can You Do It?" 1959 version, "How Long Blues", "How Long Must I Be Your Slave", "I Rowed a Little Boat", "I Wish You Could Change Your Ways" Alone Vol.2, "I Wonder Little Darling", "I Won't Be Back No More" Alone Vol.2, "Jackson, Tennessee", "Kiddio", "Let's Talk It Over", "Lord What More Can I Do", "Love My Baby", "Misbelieving Baby (My Baby Put me Down)", "Miss Rosie Mae" alternate take, "No Shoes", "One More Time", "Pea Vine Special", "Put Your Hand On Your Hip" Alone Vol.2, "Road Trouble", "Roll N' Roll", "I Rolled And Turned and Cried the Whole Night Long", "Rollin' Blues", "She Left Me on My Bended Knee" Alone Vol.2, "Smokestack Lightnin'", "Sometime", "Strike Blues", "That's My Story", "Think Twice Before You Go", "Three Long Years Today", "Too Much Boogie", "Trouble Blues", "Trying to Survive" Alone Vol.2, "Turnin' Gray Blues", "Two White Horses", "War Is Over", "Welfare Blues", "Worried Life Blues", "You Ain't Too Old To Shift Them Gears" Alone Vol.2)
G2 ("Ain't No Big Thing", "Alimonia Blues", "Baby Lee" 1989 version, "Backstabbers", "Ballad To Abraham Lincoln", "Blue Mondy (I Ain't Got Nobody)", "Bluebird Blues", "Blues Before Sunrise", "Boogie Now", "Born In Mississippi, Raised Up In Tennessee", "Country Boy", "Crazy 'Bout You", "Cry Before I Go", "Dazie Mae", "Dirty Ground Hog", "Don't Look Back", "Drifter", "The Feelin' Is Gone", "Going Down", "Going Home", "Half a Stranger" 1963 version, "Have Mercy On My Soul!", "Hey, Baby You Look Good To Me", "Hittin' The Bottle Again", "Howlin' Wolf", "Hobo Blues", "I Can't Quit You Baby", "I Left My Baby", "I Put My Trust In You", "I Wanna Be Your Puppy Baby", "I'll Never Trust Your Love Again", "I'm In The Mood", "I'm Losing You", "I'm Standing In Line", "It Serves You Right to Suffer", "The Journey", "Key To The Highway", "Kick Hit 4 Hit Kix U (Bluies For Jimi And Janis)", "King of the World", "Leavin' Chicago", "Little Girl Go Back to School", "Little Rain", "Lonely Man", "Looking Back Over My Day", "Louise" 1963 version, "Love Me All the Time", "Might As Well Say We're Through", "Morning Blues", "The Motor City Is Burning", "My Baby Don't Love Me", "My Baby's Got Somethin'", "My Dream", "My First Wife Left Me", "My Grinding Mill", "My Name Is Ringing", "My Own Blues", "Nightmare Blues" 1958 version, "One Way Ticket", "Questionnaire Blues", "Rainy Day", "Risin' Sun (Louisiana Voo-Doo)", "Sally Mae" 1989 version, "Shake Your Boogie", "She Ain't Good For Nothin'", "Sometimes You Make Me Feel So Bad" live Newport 1963, "Standin' At The Crossroads", "Stuttering Blues", "Sugar Mama", "The Syndicator", "Talk To Your Daughter", "Teachin' the Blues", "That's Alright", "Too Young", "Travellin' Blues", "Travelin' Day And Night", "The Waterfront" 1966 version, "We Might As Well Call It Through (I Didn't Get Married To Your Two-Timing Mother)", "Well Well", "You're Looking Good Tonight")
F♯2 ("Behind the Plow", "Black Snake", "Build Myself a Cave", "Bundle Up And Go" 1959 version, "Burning Hell" 1959 version, "Come On And See About Me", "Democrat Man", "Four Women In My Life", "Goin' Home Blues", "Goin' South", "Good Morning", "Grinder Man" alternate take, "Highway Blues", "How Long Blues", "I Just Can't Hold On Much Longer" live at Sugar Hill, "I Need Some Money", "I Want To Talk About You", "I'll Never Get Out of These Blues Alive" live New York 1976, "I'm In The Mood" 1989 version, "I'm Prison Bound", "Jackson, Tennessee", "Kiddio", "Miss Eloise", "Moaning Blues", "No More Doggin' (No More Foolin')" 1960 version, "The Numbers", "Queen Bee", "Real Real Gone", "Roll and Tumble", "Shady Grove Blues", "Stop Jivin' Me", "Tease Me Baby", "That's My Story", "Wayne Country Ramblin' Blues", "Whistlin' And Moanin' Blues", "You've Got Another Man")
F2 ("Baby, Please Don't Go", "Blues Before Sunrise", "Boom Boom", "Deep Blue Sea" 1995 version, "Dreamin' Blues", "Ground Hog Blues", "Hey Baby", "Hittin' The Bottle Again", "House Rent Boogie", "I Been Done So Wrong", "I Believe I'll Go Back Home", "I Can't Believe", "I Got a Letter", "I Need Love So Bad", "Mean Mean Woman", "Odds Against Me (Backbiters and Syndicators)", "One Of These Days", "One Room Country Shack", "Put Your Hand On Your Hip" Alone Vol.2, "Ramblin' By Myself", "Rock These Blues Away", "Rockin' Chair", "She Shot Me Down", "Sugar Mama", "Sunny Land", "Tantalizing With the Blues", "Union State Blues", "Wandering Blues" 1950 version, "You're Leavin' Me, Baby")
E2 ("Alberta", "Baby Lee" 1989 version, "Bad Luck And Trouble", "Big Boss Lady", "Blues Before Sunrise", "Bumblebee Bumblebee", "Catfish Blues", "Cold Chills" 1969 version, "Come On Baby", "Crawlin' King Snake", "Crazy 'Bout You", "Dazie Mae", "Early One Morning", "Going Down", "Hey, Baby You Look Good To Me", "Hi-Heel Sneakers", "Hot Spring Water, Part II", "House Rent Boogie", "I Don't Want No Woman If Her Hair Ain't No Longer Than Mine (Short-Haired Woman)", "I Had a Dream Last Night", "I Like To See You Walk", "I Want To Ramble", "I'm Goin' Home", "I'm Going Upstairs" 1969 version, "I'm Losing You", "I'm Mad Again", "I'm So Worried Baby" 1969 version, "I'm Wanderin'", "It Serves You Right to Suffer", "It's a Crazy Mixed Up World", "Just You and Me", "Key to the Highway" 1959 version, "King of the World", "Let's Make It" Canned Heat version, "Little Girl Go Back to School", "Lonesome Mood", "Looking Back Over My Day", "Maudie", "Mean Mean World", "Moaning Blues" 1960 version, "My Baby Don't Love Me", "My Grinding Mill", "My Name Is Ringing", "Never Satisfied", "Red House", "Settin' On Top of the World", "She Ain't Good For Nothin'", "A Sheep Out On The Foam", "Six Page Letter", "Stand By", "Take Me As I Am", "Teachin' the Blues", "Tennessee Blues", "That's Alright", "Up and Down", "We Might As Well Call It Through (I Didn't Get Married To Your Two-Timing Mother)", "Wednesday Evening Blues" 1960 version, "Worried Life Blues" live Blue Monday Party 1981, "You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone", "You're Looking Good Tonight")
E♭2 ("Baby, Please Don't Go" 1959 version, "Blues for my Baby", "Church Bell Tone", "Good Morning", "Graveyard Blues" Alternate 1949 version, "Grievin' Blues", "Heat Trouble Blues", "I Love To Boogie", "I Rolled And Turned and Cried the Whole Night Long", "I'll Never Get Out of These Blues Alive" live New York 1976, "Maudie" live New York 1976, "Natchez Fire (Burnin')", "Shake Your Boogie", "Tupelo Blues", "The World Today")
D2 ("Boom Boom" live, "Come On Baby", "Crawlin' King Snake" 1959 version, "Deep Blue Sea" 1995 version, "Dirty Ground Hog", "I Want To Talk About You", "Just You and Me", "Love Blues", "Miss Lorraine", "One Room Country Shack", "Poor Joe", "Settin' On Top of the World", "Sittin' Here Thinkin'", "Stuttering Blues", "Talkin' The Blues", "Tuesday Evening", "Tupelo Blues" 1993 version, "Woman on my Mind", "You Move Me")
C♯2 ("Baby, Please Don't Go" 1959 version, "Crawlin' King Snake" live San Francisco 1962, "Gonna Use My Rod", "I Like To See You Walk", "I Wish You Could Change Your Ways" Alone Vol.2, "I'm Mad Again", "Shake It Baby")
C2 ("Behind the Plow", "Boogie Chillen" live New York 1976, "I Had a Dream Last Night", "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" Alone: The First Concert, "Sometimes You Make Me Feel So Bad" live Newport 1963, "Trying to Survive" Alone Vol.2, "Tupelo Blues", "The Waterfront" 1966 version, "Wednesday Evening Blues" 1961 version, "When My First Wife Left Me" 1969 version, "Woman on my Mind")
B1 ("I'm Bad Like Jesse James")
G1 ("I'm Bad Like Jesse James" live 1986, "Talkin' The Blues")


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Blue marks falsetto or whistle notes.
Underlines mark notes that are obscured in the song mix.
Italics mark non-melodic notes.
Boldface marks notes that are considered to be particularly notable examples of this person's vocal capabilities.

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{Questionable Notes}
A5 ("(Twist Ain't Nothin') But The Old Time Shimmy" ^[1])
G5 ("Let's Go Out Tonight" ^[1])
F♯5 ("Stella Mae" ^[1])
E♭5 ("I Can't Believe" ^[5], "Thelma" ^[5])
C♯5 ("Huckle Up Baby" ^[1], "I'm Just a Drifter" ^[1])

D2 ("Have Mercy On My Soul!" ^[1])
C♯2 ("Bottle Up and Go" 1963 version ^[1])
C2 ("My First Wife Left Me" ^[1])
B1 ("The Land Is Nobody's Land" ^[3])
B♭1 ("Take Me As I Am" ^[3])
A1 ("Stop Jivin' Me" ^[5])

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[1] marks yelps and short trills in high range or anacrusis and short dips in low range.
[2] marks notes of questionable identity that cannot be confirmed to be the singer in question.
[3] marks non-melodic notes that don't have a significant enough pitch to warrant inclusion.
[4] marks notes that possess uncertain
pitch or have been pitch-shifted.
[5] marks notes that do not fit the previous criteria but are not of a substantial enough quality to warrant counting towards the singer's range.

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{Album Ranges}Single compilations:
The Complete Vol. 1 - Detroit (1948-1949): D2 - F♯4 - A4
The Complete Vol. 2 - Detroit (1949): D2 - G4
The Complete, Vol. 3, Detroit (1949 -1950): E2 - F♯4
The Complete, Vol. 4, Detroit (1950 - 1951): E2 - F4
The Complete Vol. 5 - Detroit (1951-1953): D2 - F♯4
The Complete Vol. 6 - Detroit/Miami (1953-1954): D2 - E2 - F4

Actual Album releases:
Original Folk Blues (1954): E2 - F4
I'm John Lee Hooker (1959): D2 - F4
The Country Blues Of John Lee Hooker (1959): C2 - E♭4
Burning Hell (1959): C♯2 - D4
Travelin' (1960): F2 - F4
That's My Story John Lee Hooker Sings The Blues (1960): C♯2 - D4
House Of The Blues (1960): D2 - F4
The Folk Lore Of John Lee Hooker (1961): C2 - E5
Burnin' (1962): F2 - F4
John Lee Hooker (1963): G2 - F4
On Campus (1963): E2 - F4
The Big Soul Of John Lee Hooker (1963): F2 - F4
...And Seven Nights (1965): E2 - E4 - E5
It Serves You Right To Suffer (1966): C♯2 - E5
The Real Folk Blues (1966): C2 - F5
More Real Folk Blues: The Missing Album (Archival release) (1966): G2 - F5
Urban Blues (1967): E2 - E5
Simply the Truth (1969): D2 - F4 - D5 - F5
I Wanna Dance All Night (1970): D2 - E4 - G4
I Feel Good! (1970): D2 - E4
If You Miss 'Im ... I Got 'Im (1970): E2 - E4 - B4
Get Back Home In The U.S.A. (1970): C2 - E4
Endless Boogie (1970): E2 - E4
Hooker ’N Heat (1971): D2 - E4
Never Get Out Of These Blues Alive (1972): E2 - E4
Born In Mississippi, Raised Up In Tennessee (1973): E2 - E4
Free Beer And Chicken (1974): D2 - E4
Alone (1980): B♭1 - F4
Alone Vol. 2 (1982): C2 - E♭4
Jealous (1986): E2 - E4
The Healer (1989): E2 - F4
Mr. Lucky (1991): G2 - F4
Boom Boom (1992): B1 - B4
Chill Out (1995): G1 - C2 - E4
Don't Look Back (1997): E2 - E4
Face To Face (2003): E2 - E4

Categorizing JLH's discography is a goddamn nightmare and this thread certainly does not cover his entire recorded discography, but i've tried my best in any case

[Baronessa]

John Lee Hooker: Boom boom boom boom (guitar riff)
me: hm pretty good. What else you got
John Lee Hooker: Hau hau hau hau
me: Fuck yeah

[IhateMana]

"I Don't Want No Woman If Her Hair Ain't No Longer Than Mine (Short-Haired Woman)"

lost all respect tbh, more for me though I guess

[rootyrootz]

Aug 29, 2023 10:13:35 GMT IhateMana said:

"I Don't Want No Woman If Her Hair Ain't No Longer Than Mine (Short-Haired Woman)"

lost all respect tbh, more for me though I guess

you should respect his personal opinion dawg. especially since he has passed away and as far as the public knows was a fairly virtuous person

[IhateMana]

what, is this guy Elvis or something?

[Platypus]

John Lee Yourmom

[Baronessa]

John Lee Hooker is known for not wanting an assortment of women, notable examples being a drug store woman, one playin' the races all the time and a woman crazy 'bout a process head.

He did love anime though.

[rootyrootz]

Aug 29, 2023 19:40:04 GMT Baronessa said:

He did love anime though.

I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE FUCKING LMAO