[Get on the bus]
Blues master John Lee Hooker hosts a bit of a blues and rock summit on Never Get Out Of These Blues Alive, recorded with Elvin Bishop, Steve Miller, Charles Musselwhite and Van Morrison. Morrison and Hooker trade growling lines on the ten minute title track but it is Hooker's creepy cover of Van the Man's "T.B. Sheets" that is the real standout track.
Back in 1967, when Morrison originally recorded this song about visiting a young girl dying of tuberculosis, Van broke down in tears and cancelled the rest of the day's session. Which reminds me that Hooker recorded this solid blues album in just two days.
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