Saturday, September 3, 2016

John Lee Hooker - I'm Bad Like Jesse James

I could look up the release date for this one, but if memory serves I picked it up probably in 1968. It's a good LP.

This song is about a man who is serious. You can feel the anger in it. Music like this is . . . serious. We all listened to Michael Jackson sing, "I'm Bad," and we kind of giggled, you know, because please, Michael Jackson wasn't bad at all. Maybe he turned out to be evil, but he didn't scare you in a conventional way. John Lee, on the other hand, makes you want to be careful about offending the wrong guy. John Lee sounds like he is the wrong guy. He's serious!

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