Never Get Out of These Blues Alive
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Never Get Out of These Blues Alive is a studio album by American blues musician John Lee Hooker
John Lee Hooker
John Lee Hooker was an American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist.Hooker began his life as the son of a sharecropper, William Hooker, and rose to prominence performing his own unique style of what was originally closest to Delta blues. He developed a 'talking blues' style that was his trademark...

, released in 1972 by ABC Records
ABC Records
ABC Records was an American record label, founded in New York City in 1955 as ABC-Paramount Records. It originated as the main popular music label operated the Am-Par Record Corporation, the music subsidiary of the American Broadcasting Company . ABC-Paramount Records' first president was Samuel H....

 and recorded from September 28 through September 29, 1971. The album features Van Morrison
Van Morrison
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, Elvin Bishop
Elvin Bishop
Elvin Bishop is an American blues and rock and roll musician and guitarist.-Career:Bishop was born in Glendale, California, and grew up on a farm near Elliott, Iowa. His family moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, when he was ten years old...

, Charlie Musselwhite
Charlie Musselwhite
Charlie Musselwhite is an American electric blues harmonica player and bandleader, one of the non-black bluesmen who came to prominence in the early 1960s, along with Mike Bloomfield and Paul Butterfield. Though he has often been identified as a "white bluesman", he claims Native American heritage...

, and Steve Miller
Steve Miller
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.

Track listing

All songs written by Hooker, except noted.
  • "Bumble Bee Blues" – 4:12
  • "Hit the Road" – 2:57
  • "Country Boy – 6:59
  • "Boogie With the Hook" – 6:32
  • "T.B. Sheets" (Hooker, Morrison) – 4:58
  • "Letter to My Baby" – 3:57
  • "Never Get Out of These Blues Alive" – 10:15

Personnel

  • Ron Beck – Drums
    Drum kit
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  • Baker Bigsby – Mixing
  • Elvin Bishop – Slide guitar
    Slide guitar
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  • Mel Brown
    Mel Brown
    Mel Brown was an American-born blues guitarist.Brown was nominated for a Juno Award in both 2001 and 2002.Brown, a long-time smoker, died aged 69, on March 20, 2009, in Kitchener, Ontario, of complications from emphysema....

     – Guitar, bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

  • Clifford Coulter
    Clifford Coulter
    Clifford Coulter is an American blues, R&B and jazz guitarist and keyboardist.He released three albums, 1970's East Side San Jose , 1971's Do It Now: Worry About It Later and 1980's The Better Part of Me .The latter record was produced by Bill Withers, and included contributions from Russ Kunkel,...

     – Electric piano
    Electric piano
    An electric piano is an electric musical instrument.Electric pianos produce sounds mechanically and the sounds are turned into electrical signals by pickups. Unlike a synthesizer, the electric piano is not an electronic instrument, but electro-mechanical. The earliest electric pianos were invented...

  • Chuck Crimelli – Drums
  • John Lee Hooker – Guitar, Vocals
  • Robert Hooker – Organ, electric piano
  • Ken Hopkins – Engineer
  • John Kahn
    John Kahn
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     – Bass guitar
  • Ray MacCarty – Guitar
  • Philip Melnick – Cover design, photography
  • Ed Michel – Production
  • Steven Miller – Organ
  • Van Morrison – Composer, Guitar, Vocals
  • Charlie Musselwhite – Harmonica
    Harmonica
    The harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...

  • Mark Naftalin
    Mark Naftalin
    Mark Naftalin is an American blues keyboardist, composer, and record producer.-Life:Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, Naftalin is the son of former Minneapolis mayor Arthur Naftalin; he is married to third wife Ellen Naftalin...

     – Piano
    Piano
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  • Benny Rowe – Slide guitar
  • Gino Skaggs – Drums, bass guitar
  • Rick Stanley – Assistant Engineer
  • Ken Swank – Drums
  • Luther Tucker
    Luther Tucker
    For the publisher see The Genesee FarmerLuther Tucker was an American blues guitarist.While soft spoken and shy, Tucker made his presence known through his unique and clearly recognizable guitar style. Tucker helped to define the music known as Chicago Blues, but played everything from blues to...

     – Guitar
  • Michael White
    Michael White
    - Academics :*Michael JD White , British zoologist*Michael White , inventor of narrative therapy*L. Michael White, American theologian*Michael White , English Communications Theorist- Journalism and literature :...

     – Violin
    Violin
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  • Paul Wood
    Paul Wood
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     – Guitar

Charting history

Chart Peak
position
Billboard Top Jazz Albums
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