JOHN LEE HOOKER - The Real Folk Blues (Chess Acoustic Sounds Series) Format:180g Black Vinyl LP Yasushi Nakamura

Yasushi Nakamura

orchestral dimension to the songs

the album has been praised by artists such as Bob Dylan (who recorded Paul Brady’s arrangement of “Arthur McBride And The Sergeant“)

From the rebellious fury of Fuck the System and the inner struggle of War Inside Me

modern vulnerability that feels strikingly personal

JOHN LEE HOOKER - The Real Folk Blues (Chess Acoustic Sounds Series) Format:180g Black Vinyl LP Yasushi NakamuraThe 1966 John Lee Hooker album Real Folk Blues is the latest of several Chess Records' Real Folk Blues albums to be reissued for 2026 as part of the Chess Records 75 Series from Chess Records and Acoustic Sounds. Whereas the rest of the LPs in the series by Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and others were compilations of older recordings, the Hooker album was newly recorded in May of 1966 in Chicago. Hooker was his inimitable and spontaneous self, reworking