Earl Hooker – The Essential Earl Hooker (1977) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

If there was a more immaculate slide guitarist residing in Chicago during the 1950s and ’60s than Earl Hooker, his name has yet to surface. Boasting a fretboard touch so smooth and clean that every note rang as clear and precise as a bell, Hooker was an endlessly inventive axeman who would likely have been a star had his modest vocal abilities matched his instrumental prowess and had he not been dogged by tuberculosis (it killed him at age 41).

Tracklist:
1. Earl Hooker – Don’t You Ever Forget It (02:25)
2. Earl Hooker – Little by Little (02:45)
3. Earl Hooker – Want You to Rock Me (03:04)
4. Earl Hooker – The Leading Brand (02:34)
5. Earl Hooker – Lotta Lovin’ (02:46)
6. Earl Hooker – I Stay Mad (02:49)
7. Earl Hooker – Crying Blues (01:57)
8. Earl Hooker – You’d Better Be Sure (02:16)
9. Earl Hooker – Win the Dance (02:02)
10. Earl Hooker – The Bright Sound (02:13)
11. Earl Hooker – That Man (02:29)
12. Earl Hooker – Off the Hook (01:40)
13. Earl Hooker – These Cotton Pickin’ Blues (02:42)
14. Earl Hooker – Nothing but Good (02:26)
15. Earl Hooker – How Long Can This Go On (02:10)
16. Earl Hooker – Blue Guitar (02:39)
17. Earl Hooker – That’s Ain’t Right (01:55)
18. Earl Hooker – I Wanna Be Free (02:35)
19. Earl Hooker – This Little Voice (02:19)
20. Earl Hooker – Rockin’ Wild (02:06)
21. Earl Hooker – Rockin’ with Kid (02:05)
22. Earl Hooker – Apache War Dance (02:14)
23. Earl Hooker – Unversal Rock (02:29)
24. Earl Hooker – Blues in D Natural (02:10)
25. Earl Hooker – Galloping Horses a Lazy Mule (02:32)
26. Earl Hooker – Swear to Tell the Truth (02:30)
27. Earl Hooker – Calling All Blues (02:31)
28. Earl Hooker – Oh Mama (02:45)
29. Earl Hooker – Will My Man Be Home Tonight (02:35)