JOHN LEE HOOKER - The Real Folk Blues (Chess Acoustic Sounds Series) Speakers Corner Quartet and Speak No Evil

and Speak No Evil

to be here now”

guitars and a sense of scale that balances Kaplan’s love of folk traditions

astral love directed outwardly at the universe rather than an individual

the recording space became a laboratory to further develop these new ideas and transform the ‘Dyp Tid’ piece into a fully-fledged studio album: “We delved into analogue technology

JOHN LEE HOOKER - The Real Folk Blues (Chess Acoustic Sounds Series) Speakers Corner Quartet and Speak No EvilThe 1966 John Lee Hooker album Real Folk Blues is the latest of several Chess Records' Real Folk Blues albums to be reissued for 2026 as part of the Chess Records 75 Series from Chess Records and Acoustic Sounds. Whereas the rest of the LPs in the series by Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and others were compilations of older recordings, the Hooker album was newly recorded in May of 1966 in Chicago. Hooker was his inimitable and spontaneous self, reworking