Travelin' (John Lee Hooker album)
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| Travelin' | |
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| Studio album by | |
| Released | 1960 |
| Recorded | March 1, 1960 |
| Studio | Chicago |
| Genre | Blues |
| Length | 30:58 |
| Label | Vee-Jay |
Travelin' is an album by blues musician John Lee Hooker, recorded in 1960, which Vee-Jay Records released in the same year.[1]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings |    [2] |
| The New Rolling Stone Record Guide | [3] |
| The Virgin Encyclopedia of The Blues | [4] |
| DownBeat | [5] |
The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings wrote that "Travelin' "was the first of Hooker's Vee-Jay albums to be recorded at a single session. Cut from the same cloth, the performances have little variety in texture and not much in tempo."[2]
Pete Welding assigned the album 4 stars in his DownBeat review.[5] He wrote,
"He is one of the most powerful blues performers, yet there is not a great deal of originality or real poetry in his lyrics. In the hands of a lesser artist, one feels that they would hardly come across, but the power of Hooker is such that he can invest them with a genuine conviction and seriousness that makes them believable. The dark, brooding, inconsolable quality of his voice and the intensity of his delivery further add to this effect".[5]
