She's Long, She's Tall (She Weeps Like a Willow Tree)

Recorded during Hooker's prolific early Detroit period, this track highlights his raw, unaccompanied electric style. Often recording alone in the studio, Hooker relied on the heavy stomp of his foot on a wooden board to keep time, bypassing standard 12-bar blues structures whenever the mood struck him. His guitar work here is droning and hypnotic, drawing on the single-chord drone traditions of North Mississippi hill country blues, but cranked through a cheap amplifier to give it a gritty, aggressive edge.