John Lee Hooker – The Healer (VG/VG+) – LP, AU 1989

The Healer is an LP by John Lee Hooker from 1989 released on the Chameleon Records label.

About this album

The Healer is a late-career high point that brought John Lee Hooker back into the wider spotlight. Released in 1989, it paired his gravelly, hypnotic blues with guest appearances that helped modernise his sound without sanding off its rough edges. The title track became one of his best-known later recordings, while the album’s mix of stripped-down boogie and blues rock reaffirmed Hooker’s status as a master of the form. With contributions from artists including Carlos Santana, Bonnie Raitt and George Thorogood, the record connected generations and showed how Hooker’s deep pulse could still command attention at the end of the 1980s.

Genre: Blues

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