Drug store woman
Master
61-2211
Location/Date
Universal Recording Corporation
Chicago, IL, October 26 1961
Vee-Jay 438
Lineup
John Lee Hooker, vcl/gtr; Joe Edward Hunter, pno; Hank Cosby, ts; Andrew 'Mike' Terry, baritonesax; Larry Veeder, gtr; James Jamerson, bs; Benny Benjamin, dms
Produced by
Calvin Carter
Vee-Jay 438
EP
Stateside SE 1019
LP
Buddah Records BDS 4002, Craft Recordings CR00544, GNP Crescendo GNPS 2-10007, Joy Records JOY 124, Joy Records JOYS 156, Up Front UPF 104, Vee-Jay LP 1043, Vee-Jay LP 1049
CD
Acrobat ACQCD 7103, Avid Roots EMSC1208, Charly CD DIG 5, Charly CDGR 298, Charly CDRB 10, Charly CPCD 8242-2, Charly CR RED 6, Charly SNAJ 705, Charly VBCD 301, Collectables COL 0108, Craft Recordings CR00545, Fruit Tree FT821, GNP Crescendo GNPD 2-0007, Hoodoo Records 263481, Soul Jam Records 600913, Suite Beat SBCD2012, Union Square Music METRTN014
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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