Blues Is the Healer

Blues Is the Healer is a ten-CD box set of 149 songs from the early years of blues legend John Lee Hooker's repertory, released in 2005 by the German label Membran. According to one reviewer, "the first 8 discs are early solo Hooker with the occasional backing guitar or piano. Disc 9 sounds like Veejay recordings and the 10th is a live concert".

Track listing

• CD 1

01. Leavin' Chicago 02. Wednesday Evening Blues 03. My First Wife Left Me 04. Sally Mae 05. War Is Over (Goodbye California) 06. She Was in Chicago 07. Boogie Chillen 08. Henry's Swing Club 09. Stomp Boogie 10. Who's Been Jiving You 11. Black Man Blues 12. Shake Your Boogie 13. Poor Slim 14. Mercy Blues 15. Boogie Woogie 16. Helpless Blues

• CD 2

01. Good Business 02. Goin' Mad Blues 03. Morning Blues 04. Boogie Awhile 05. Tuesday Evening Blues 06. Weeping Willow Boogie 07. Hobo Blues 08. Miss Lorraine 09. Do the Boogie 10. Do The Boogie (Alt) 11. 609 Boogie 12. Road Trouble 13. Christmas Time Blues 14. Drifting from Door to Door 15. Hobo Blues 16. Howlin' Wolf

• CD 3

01. Crawling Kingsnake 02. Alberta 03. Wayne County Ramblin' Blues 04. Talkin' Boogie 05. I Love To Boogie 06. Graveyard Blues 07. Must I Wait Till Your Man Has Gone 08. Cotton Pickin' Boogie 09. Hoogie Boogie 10. Huckle Up Baby 11. Whistlin' And Moanin' Blues 12. Momma Poppa Blues 13. Burning Hell 14. Sailing Blues 15. Black Cat Blues

• CD 4

01. Miss Rosie Mae 02. Highway Blues 03. Don't Go Baby 04. The Numbers 05. Weeping Willow Blues 06. Forgive Me 07. Howlin' Wolf 08. Playing the Races 09. Wednesday Evening 10. Let Your Daddy Ride 11. Queen Bee 12. I'm In The Mood 13. Tease Me Baby 14. Turn Over A New Leaf 15. Women In My Life

• CD 5

01. House Rent Boogie 02. Wandering Blues 03. Questionnaire Blues 04. Real Gone Gal 05. Feed Her All Night 06. My Daddy Was A Jockey 07. Little Boy Blues 08. How Long Must I Be Your Slave 09. Ground Hog 10. Mean Old Train 11. Catfish 12. Do My Baby Think Of Me 13. Three Long Year's Ago 14. Strike Blues 15. Grinder Man

• CD 6

01. Walkin' This Highway 02. Four Women In My Life 03. I Need Lovin' 04. Find Me A Woman 05. Mad Man Blues 06. Hey Boogie 07. Louise 08. High Priced Woman 09. Union Station Blues 10. Ground Hog Blues 11. Leave My Wife Alone 12. Ramblin' By Myself 13. Dreamin' Blues 14. Just Me And My Telephone 15. Walkin' The Boogie 16. Sugar Mama

• CD 7

01. Please Don't Go 02. I Don't Want Your Money 03. Hey Baby 04. Bluebird 05. Walkin' The Boogie 06. Love Blues 07. Lonely Boy Boogie 08. Apologize 09. The Journey 10. Worried Life Blues 11. Down At The Landing 12. You Have Two Hearts 13. Blues For Big Town 14. Women And Money 15. Rock House Boogie

• CD 8

01. Too Much Boogie 02. Need Somebody 03. Please Take Me Back 04. Gotta Boogie 05. Stuttering Blues 06. Pouring down Rain 07. Love My Baby 08. Misbelieving Baby 09. Wobbling Baby 10. Goin' South 11. My Baby Don't Love Me 12. I Ain't Got Nobody 13. Real Real Gone 14. Guitar Lovin' Man 15. Blue Monday 16. My Baby Put Me Down

• CD 9

01. Boom, Boom 02. I Want To Hug You 03. House Rent Boogie 04. Wand Ad Blues 05. I'm So Excited 06. Hard Headed Woman 07. I Wanna Walk 08. Onions 09. What Do You Say 10. Keep Your Hands To Yourself 11. Send Me Your Pillow 12. She Shot Me Down 13. I Want To Shout 14. I'm Leaving (Baby)

• CD 10

01. Baby Baby 02. I Feel Good 03. Going Home 04. We Are Cooking 05. Looking Back Over My Day 06. Dazie Mae 07. Stand Back 08. Call It The Night 09. Roll And Rumble 10. Bottle Of Wine 11. Baby Don't Do Me Wrong