Steve Hooker – Boogie chal

1.A thing about death (unreleased first take)
2.It’s all over now – with Wilko Johnson (12″ & 7″ single)
3.Midnight shift – The Shakers (unreleased version)
4.Prisoner of love (unreleased version)
5.Tonight the bottle let me down – Boz And The Bozmen (studio outtake)
6.(She talks in a) Southern accent (demo version)
7.Straight from the hip (demo version)
8.I don’t believe you (from lost film soundtrack)
9.Toledo Road (from lost film soundtrack)
10.Torture (vinyl EP track)
11.Rock ol‘ sputnik – with Rumble (the one that kicked down the doors!)
12.Elmore stroll (alternate take)

(Rare, un-released and alternate tracks ’85-’97, available on CD for the first time) Mastered at Time Tunnel Valve Mastering, email: timetun@aol.com, PRODUCED BY STEVE HOOKER

Drawn from experience with previous bands (The Shakers, Boz and the Bozmen), recordings (Wilko Johnson, Captain Drugbuster) and the example of an early hero (Chuck Berry), Hooker is a stripped down unit built to tour. He’s hit the high and low spots of France, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Finland, Spain, New York and the U.K., been featured on the soundtrack of a rockabilly vampire film. This album contains unreleased, rare and alternate takes for the fans and collectors.     Audiences in France, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Finland, Spain, USA and the UK have all dug that ballroom twang with the Shakers, Polecats/Morrisey mainman Boz’s Bozmen and Southchurch rockers Rumble. Ex-Feelgood Wilko Johnson and Hemsby TV hero Captain Drugbuster turned on to the wild guitar for record dates as did film maker Lee ‚Burnin’ love‘ Sobel for his vampire soundtrack.

DIARY
1977 – THE HEAT
1982 – THE SHAKERS
1988 – STEVE HOOKER & WILKO JOHNSON & BOZ & THE BOZMEN
1993 – RUMBLE
1997 – CAPTAIN DRUGBUSTER
2000 – STEVE HOOKER & THE ST’s