This new reissued Collector’s Edition includes Bonus Disc of Unreleased Material (17 minute jam of Rock Steady plus 3 new Rock Steady remixes) and brand new Cover Painting by John Rummen. Recorded at the Rising Sun Celebrity Jazz Club in Montreal, Quebec, on May 5th, 1977. “Black Night Is Falling” finds John Lee Hooker in fine voice and backed by a driving band composed of John Garcia on guitar, Steve Jones on bass, and Larry ‘Wild Man’ Martin on drums, with the end result being an excellent example of Hooker at his best.
Highlights include impressive romps through Hooker’s signature tunes, Boom Boom, which simply blazes with raw energy here, and One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer, which is delivered as a wonderfully paced barroom cautionary tale. This is what the live Hooker sounded like with a sympathetic band behind him, a band that luckily wasn’t afraid to push him a little.
“Black Night is Falling” Just A Memory Records
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