Crawlin' black spider
Alternate title
Mean old snake
Master
57-636
Location/Date
Universal Recording Corporation
Chicago, IL, March 1 1957
Top Rank RES 136
Lineup
John Lee Hooker, vcl/gtr; Eddie Taylor, gtr; Quinn Wilson, bs; Tom Whitehead, dms
Produced by
Calvin Carter
Top Rank RES 136
LP
Charly LP 1014, DJM DJD 28026, Instant INS 5009
CD
Charly CD 62, Charly CD BM 19, Charly CPCD 8242-2, Charly CR RED 6, Charly SNAJ 705, Charly VBCD 301, Instant CD INS 5009, Jasmine Records JASCD 562, Snapper Music SBLUECD020, Vee-Jay NVD2-713
Most of Hooker’s recordings for Vee-Jay were done in Bill Putnam’s newly built studio, Universal Recording Corporation, on 46 E. Walton Street in Chicago, with his ”#2-man”, Bernie Clapper, engineering (in studio 2). Hooker’s Vee-Jay ”contacts” were Jimmy Bracken, Ewart Abner and especially Calvin Carter, who also was the foremost producer. When Putnam in 1957 started his United Recording at Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, Clapper took the lead in Chicago.
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