Chill Out by John Lee Hooker, who died in June 2001, is a sublime album with excellent songs such as the title track Chill Out with the collaboration of Carlos Santana. Van Morrison (in the medley Serves Me Right To Suffer / Syndicator) and blues pianist Charles Brown also cooperated. Hooker has his own sound and that makes him incomparable with other blues musicians. Many of his compositions have
… also become blues classics, such as One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer, which can also be found on this new album. Characteristic on this CD is again the parlando (text that is more speaking than singing) by Hooker, only accompanied by his own guitar. The whole sounds contemporary and also timeless.more
