Don't Turn Me from Your Door

Don't Turn Me from Your Door, subtitled John Lee Hooker Sings His Blues, is an album by blues musician John Lee Hooker, compiling six songs originally recorded for De Luxe Records in 1953 along with six new tunes recorded in 1961. Atco Records released the album in 1963.

Don't Turn Me from Your Door
Compilation album by John Lee Hooker
Released	February 1963
Recorded	Cincinnati, Ohio, July 1953 Miami, Florida, July 1961
Genre	Blues
Length	31:53
Label	Atco
Producer	Henry Stone
John Lee Hooker chronology
The Big Soul of John Lee Hooker (1963) Don't Turn Me from Your Door (1963) John Lee Hooker on Campus (1963)

Reception

AllMusic reviewer Steve Leggett stated: "you really can't go wrong with this guy – he always delivered what he was supposed to deliver with no frills and no fuss, generating a kind of endless boogie that, no matter what embellishments producers added in, was always poised between old country blues and its next-generation urban blues counterpart. None of Hooker's signature songs are here, but one still gets a solid sense of him, and truthfully, the only bad Hooker is no Hooker at all".[1]

Track listing

All compositions credited to John Lee Hooker

1. "Stuttering Blues" – 2:13
2. "Wobbling Baby" – 2:32
3. "You Lost a Good Man" – 2:50
4. "Love My Baby" – 2:35
5. "Misbelieving Baby" – 2:30
6. "Drifting Blues" – 3:33
7. "Don't Turn Me from Your Door" – 2:40
8. "My Baby Don't Love Me" – 2:58
9. "I Ain't Got Nobody" – 2:28
10. "Real Real Gone" – 2:22
11. "Guitar Lovin' Man" – 2:38
12. "Talk About Your Baby" – 2:33

Recorded in Cincinnati, Ohio in July, 1953 (tracks 1, 2, 4, 8, 10 & 11) and Miami, Florida in July, 1961 (tracks 3, 5-7, 9 & 12)

Personnel

• John Lee Hooker – guitar, vocals
• Eddie Kirkland – guitar (track 2)
• Earl Hooker – guitar (tracks 5 & 9)

References

1. Leggett, Steve. John Lee Hooker: Don't Turn Me from Your Door: John Lee Hooker Sings His Blues – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved August 31, 2019.