Plays & Sings The Blues (studio album)
by John Lee Hooker

Plays & Sings The Blues by John Lee Hooker
Year: 1961
Overall rank: 16,725th   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 26 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1961 (72nd)
Award Top albums of the 1960s (1,117th)
Award Best albums of all time (16,725th)

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John Lee Hooker bestography

Plays & Sings The Blues is ranked 9th best out of 69 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 3246 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 460.

John Lee Hooker album bestography « Higher ranked (13,289th)
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Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 26 votes)
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.3/100, a mean average of 73.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.3.

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This is as raw and authentic as you can get on a recording.
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Blues is blues, but The sound on this recording is not very good
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Best Albums of 1961
1. My Favorite Things by John Coltrane
2. King Of The Delta Blues Singers by Robert Johnson
3. Sunday At The Village Vanguard by Bill Evans Trio
4. Free Jazz by Ornette Coleman Double Quartet
5. Olé Coltrane by John Coltrane
6. Africa/Brass by John Coltrane Quartet
7. The Blues And The Abstract Truth by Oliver Nelson
8. Showcase by Patsy Cline
9. Two Steps From The Blues by Bobby Bland
10. Eastern Sounds by Yusef Lateef
11. This Is Our Music by Ornette Coleman
12. The Genius Sings The Blues by Ray Charles
13. West Side Story (The Original Sound Track Recording) by Various Artists
14. Someday My Prince Will Come by The Miles Davis Sextet
15. Thelonious Monk With John Coltrane by Thelonious Monk With John Coltrane
16. Djangology by Django Reinhardt
17. Lonely And Blue by Roy Orbison
18. Out Of The Cool by Gil Evans Orchestra
19. A Night In Tunisia by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
20. Time Further Out by The Dave Brubeck Quartet
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