Album · 2003
Boogie Chillen'
Boogie Chillen' is a 2003 blues album by John Lee Hooker. It runs 20 tracks across 58 minutes.
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- 20
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- 58 min
- Runtime
- 97 bpm
- Tempo
- B major
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20 tracks · 58 min
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"Boogie Chillen'" or "Boogie Chillun" is a blues song first recorded by John Lee Hooker in 1948. It is a solo performance featuring Hooker's vocal, electric guitar, and rhythmic foot stomps. The lyrics are partly autobiographical and alternate between spoken and sung verses. The song was his debut record release and in 1949, it became the first "down-home" electric blues song to reach number one in the R&B records chart. Hooker's song was part of a trend in the late 1940s to a new style of urban electric blues based on earlier Delta blues idioms. Although it is called a boogie, it resembles early North Mississippi Hill country blues rather than the boogie-woogie piano-derived style of the 1930s and 1940s. Hooker gave credit to his stepfather, Will Moore, who taught him the rhythm of "Boogie Chillen'" ("chillen'" is a phonetical approximation of Hooker's pronunciation of "children") when he was a teenager. Some of the song's lyrics are derived from earlier blues songs.
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Hooker's guitar work on the song inspired several well-known guitarists to take up the instrument. With its driving style and focus on rhythm, it is also considered a forerunner of rock and roll. Music critic Cub Koda calls the guitar figure from "Boogie Chillen'" "the riff that launched a million songs". Several rock musicians have patterned successful songs either directly or indirectly on Hooker's many versions of "Boogie Chillen'". These include songs by boogie rock band Canned Heat, who also recorded a well-received version with Hooker. One of ZZ Top's best-known hits, "La Grange", uses elements of the song, which led to legal action by the song's publisher and resulted in changes to American copyright law.
In brief
- When was Boogie Chillen' released?
- Boogie Chillen' was released in 2003.
- How many tracks are on Boogie Chillen'?
- Boogie Chillen' has 20 tracks, with a runtime of 58 minutes.
- What genre is Boogie Chillen'?
- Boogie Chillen' is catalogued under Blues.
- What BPM is Boogie Chillen'?
- Boogie Chillen' runs at a median tempo of 97 BPM across its tracks, most often in B major, measured from audio analysis.
- What albums are similar to Boogie Chillen'?
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