Hobo blues
Master
59-1071
Location/Date
Universal Recording Corporation
Chicago, IL, January 22 1959
Vee-Jay 331
Lineup
John Lee Hooker, vcl/gtr
Produced by
Calvin Carter
Vee-Jay 331
45 rpm
Collectables COL 3358, Vee-Jay 331
LP
Charly LP 1081, Delta Blues DELB008LP, DJM DJD 28026, Everest Records FS 222, GNP Crescendo GNPS 2-10007, Instant INS 5009, Joy Records JOY 101, Top Rank International 33.002, Up Front UPF 104, Vee-Jay LP 1007, WaxTime 771919
CD
Acrobat ACQCD 7103, Avid Roots EMSC1208, Charly CD 4, Charly CD BM 7, Charly CD DIG 5, Charly CDGR 151, Charly CDGR 281, Charly CPCD 8242-2, Charly CR RED 6, Charly SNAJ 705, Charly VBCD 301, Collectables COL 0108, Fruit Tree FT821, GNP Crescendo GNPD 2-0007, Instant CD INS 5009, Jasmine Records JASCD 562, Shout! Factory 8 26663 10646, Snapper Music SBLUECD020, Soul Jam Records 600804, Soul Jam Records 600871, Soul Jam Records 600913, Soul Jam Records 806184, Timeless Classic Albums DOLCD0475, 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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