Half of these recordings by the late lamented John Lee Hooker have only ever been released once before, on a UK budget CD in 1997. Included here is the full 18 and a half minutes of “I Hated The Day I Was Born”, a slow brooding blues. This is the first time the complete song has been issued and it's a testament to the power of his presence that not a minute is wasted. Several tracks were recorded in France and feature the guest guitar of Lowell Fulson.