only snippets but its nice to see the differences between them (john kept the title intact).....

prince and lary grahams
http://www.jimihendrix.co...281-04.ram

john lee hookers
http://www.jimihendrix.co...281-18.ram

funkbabyandthebabysitters said:

john lee hooker was brilliant. he showed the blues roots in hendrix's song and brought all its rootsier edges right out. prince, just showed how he loves MOR, lol.

thirstinhowlVIII said:

MOR?

funkyfine said:

MOR=middle of the road. i.e. dull music.

I've never heard the original, so i can't compare them to it...

However, JLH's version puts me to sleep..dull, dull, dull.

Prince's version has nice guitar work, but nothing spectacular.

im just upping this because JLH did such a great job.

I'd take Buddy Guy's version personally on the "Stone Free" trib.

13inchshoe said:

cosign, cosign, COSIGN!!!

Don't sleep on buddy guy people!!

jerseykrs said:

Red House was never one of my favorite Hendrix tunes. It's good but a little too traditional in the blues format. I mean, some of Hendrix's other blues songs sounded like nothing that had ever been done before. For example, "manic Depression"; I'd love to hear Prince cover that.

i bought that cd. it's pretty good but sadly i prefer the JLH version to Prince's version. he should have used the RAVE dvd version. much more exciting or recorded a better version with Rhonda Smith and John Blackwell