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The Hook’s 1959 Riverside debut is truest to his Mississippi roots, capturing him unaccompanied and acoustic (as opposed to the electric boogie he made so famous). He mixes in field hollers, hokum, moans and Delta blues as you hear standards as well as autobiographical songs: "Black Snake," "How Long Blues," "Tupelo Blues," "I’m Prison Bound," "Bundle Up and Go," "Good Mornin’, Lil’ School Girl," "She’s Long, She’s Tall, She Weeps Like a Willow Tree" and more. Sourced from the original stereo tapes, this 60th-anniversary reissue arrives here on 180-gram vinyl! Craft.