Curl my baby's hair

Alternate title
Miss Sadie Mae

Master
F-159 

Location/Date
609 Lafayette Street
Detroit, MI, Early 1949

Original release
Fortune 846

Lineup
John Lee Hooker, vcl/gtr; James Watkins, pno; Curtis Foster, dms

Produced by
Elmer Barbee

78 rpm
Fortune 846

45 rpm
Fortune 846

LP
Fortune LP 3002

CD
Body & Soul 3063142Craft Recordings CR00015

By 1948, Hooker came to the attention of Elmer Barbee, a local record shop owner.Barbee arranged to have several demos recorded. He or Hooker later presented the recordings to Bernard "Bernie" Besman, who ran the Detroit area's only professional record company.


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