| Don't Turn Me from Your Door | |
| Type: | compilation |
| Artist: | John Lee Hooker |
| Cover: | Don't Turn Me from Your Door.jpg |
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| Genre: | Blues |
| Label: | Atco |
| Producer: | Henry Stone |
| Prev Title: | The Big Soul of John Lee Hooker |
| Prev Year: | 1963 |
| Next Title: | John Lee Hooker on Campus |
| Next Year: | 1963 |
Don't Turn Me from Your Door, subtitled John Lee Hooker Sings His Blues, is an album by the 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.
AllMusic reviewer Steve Leggett wrote that "you really can't go wrong with this guyhe 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."
All compositions credited to John Lee Hooker
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)