The Healer
by John Lee Hooker

The Healer by John Lee Hooker
Year: 1989
Release date: 1989-00-00
Overall rank: 6,752nd   
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 74 votes)
     
Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1989 (91st)
Award Top albums of the 1980s (982nd)
Award Best albums of all time (6,752nd)

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John Lee Hooker bestography

The Healer is ranked 4th best out of 71 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 3268 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 458.

John Lee Hooker album bestography « Higher ranked (5,831st)
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This album (6,752nd)
The Healer
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The Healer track list

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The Healer rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 6,752nd | 1980s rank: 982nd | 1989 rank: 91st

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Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 74 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 7% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.2/100, a mean average of 74.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.1.

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85/100
From 02/23/2022 08:30 | #281813
This is blues and always worth at least 85
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From 12/12/2021 08:04 | #277410
Allmusic gives this 2/5. Wow... that's a lot of hatin'! This is a super fun and excellent album.
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From 06/02/2020 22:41 | #252779
For me this is his best.
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From 02/12/2016 21:01 | #159486
Solid album by the blues master.
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From 09/18/2012 20:58 | #50727
Yeah....! Blues revival!
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