House Of The Blues
by John Lee Hooker

House Of The Blues by John Lee Hooker
Year: 1960
Overall rank: 10,507th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 80 votes)
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Award Top albums of 1960 (40th)
Award Top albums of the 1960s (741st)
Award Best albums of all time (10,507th)

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John Lee Hooker bestography

House Of The Blues is ranked 5th best out of 72 albums by John Lee Hooker on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by John Lee Hooker is I'm John Lee Hooker which is ranked number 3166 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 482.

John Lee Hooker album bestography « Higher ranked (6,914th)
The Healer
This album (10,507th)
House Of The Blues
Lower ranked (10,651st) »
The Country Blues Of John Lee Hooker

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Overall rank: 10,507th | 1960s rank: 741st | 1960 rank: 40th

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Average Rating: 
74/100 (from 80 votes)
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12/24/2025 22:18 duelek  Ratings distribution  1,92175/100
 
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05/19/2025 18:57 Johnnyo  Ratings distribution  9,72777/100
 
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12/01/2024 08:01 Hyggevinyl  Ratings distribution  4,39872/100
 
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08/03/2024 03:34 matterhornrider  Ratings distribution  5,07481/100
 
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05/06/2024 22:46 javicho07  Ratings distribution  3,08481/100

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This album is rated in the top 18% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.8/100, a mean average of 73.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.1/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.5.

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From 07/20/2016 20:26 | #171579
I believe that this album is from 1960. Not that it matters much.
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From 01/23/2016 18:00 | #157439
Favorite Track: Leave My Wife Alone

I read somewhere a backing band was hired to work with him and it didn't quite work out "because he worked on his own timing". His own demon ran the show... outside of the bounds of "musical" rules, he let the music flow through him. Timeless.

Having said that I personally didn't like this album as much, as much as I give it the respect it deserves.
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From 03/29/2015 22:12 | #138200
House Of The Blues. The title says it all.
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75/100
From 08/30/2012 16:25 | #49677
Hooker is up there with Muddy Waters as the most legit of the big blues men in terms of attitude and grit. This album confirms this.
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