Dusty road
Alternate title
Big road
Master
60-1382
Location/Date
Universal Recording Corporation
Chicago, IL, March 1 1960
Vee-Jay 366
Lineup
John Lee Hooker, vcl/gtr; Lefty Bates, gtr; Sylvester Hickman, bs; Jimmy Turner, dms
Produced by
Calvin Carter
Vee-Jay 366
EP
Stateside SE 1008
LP
Buddah Records BDS 4002, Charly LP 1081, Delta Blues DELB008LP, Joy Records JOYS 129, Joy Records JOYS 156, Tradition LP 2089, Vee-Jay DS 7006, Vee-Jay LP 1023, Vee-Jay LP 1049, WaxTime 771919
CD
Acrobat ACQCD 7103, Avid Roots EMSC1208, Charly CD DIG 5, Charly CDGR 284, Charly CPCD 8242-2, Charly CR RED 6, Charly SNAJ 705, Collectables COL 0108, Craft Recordings CR00015, Fruit Tree FT821, Soul Jam Records 600804, Soul Jam Records 600913, Suite Beat SBCD2012, Timeless Classic Albums DOLCD0475, Tomato R2 71659, Union Square Music INTROTCD01, 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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