earl hooker theres a fungus among us cd album re Vertigo letting you hear all the

letting you hear all the orchestration details Tchaikovsky packed in

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and those distinctive vocals that made "September" and countless other tracks timeless

defining a particular brand of accessible Latin-influenced easy listening

and the French vocal tradition

earl hooker theres a fungus among us cd album re Vertigo letting you hear all theEarl Hooker was Chicago blues' most inventive guitarist, a pioneer of the 'slide string' technique that allowed him to bend single notes with unprecedented expressiveness. Working from the late 1940s through 1970, he influenced everyone from Muddy Waters to modern blues musicians with his innovative approach. Though less commercially visible than contemporaries, his influence runs deep through Chicago's blues lineage. This 1999 compilation resurrects