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This album falls distinctly into the former class John Lee Hooker, a 54-year-old blues legend in his own right, is sympathetically accompanied by the likes of Jesse Davis, Carl Radle, Steve Miller, Gino Scaggs and Mark Naftalin and the end product is a double-album set of unadulterated Hooker portraits in blues. I use the word “portraits” without hesitation. Hooker has long been a master at the extended built - around - a - foot - stomping-beat kind of blues as well as the quick, boogie-based instrumental. He nearly outdoes himself here on “Pots On. Gas On High.” “A Sheep Out On the Foam” as well as the tersely effective “Kick Hit 4 Hit Kix U (Blues for J Enlace permanente.