Travelin' is an album by blues musician John Lee Hooker, recorded in 1960, which Vee-Jay Records released in the same year.
Reception
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."
Pete Welding assigned the album 4 stars in his DownBeat review. 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".
Track listing All compositions credited to John Lee Hooker "No Shoes" – 2:10 "I Wanna Walk" – 2:15 "Canal Street Blues" – 2:30 "Run On" – 2:10 "I'm a Stranger" – 2:35 "Whiskey and Wimmen" – 2:10 "Solid Sender" – 2:30 "Sunny Land" – 2:15 "Goin' to California" – 2:20 "I Can't Believe" – 2:37 "I'll Know Tonight" – 2:35 "Dusty Road" – 2:09
Personnel John Lee Hooker – guitar, vocals William "Lefty" Bates – guitar Sylvester Hickman – bass Jimmy Turner – drums
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