John Lee Hooker — I’m John Lee Hooker

As I’ve already said, JLH released and re-released a lot of the same or similar songs – different title, different version, different session. So if you scoop up two different records that both have “I’m Mad” on them, there’s a chance they’re different versions of “I’m Mad.”

However, as different as the covers may be, it turns out if you scoop up two different releases of “I’m John Lee Hooker,” those are probably the same record.

I bought this a few weeks back, excited as always for a fresh new John Lee Hooker pressing, not realizing – because it looked completely unfamiliar – that in fact, I did already have “I’m John Lee Hooker.” In fact, I have quite a nice Spanish pressing.

I do not care. I have duplicates of much lesser albums.