I wanna walk
Alternate title
I want to talk
Master
60-1373
Location/Date
Universal Recording Corporation
Chicago, IL, March 1 1960
Vee-Jay LP 1023
Lineup
John Lee Hooker, vcl/gtr; Lefty Bates, gtr; Sylvester Hickman, bs; Jimmy Turner, dms
Produced by
Calvin Carter
Chameleon D1-74794, Charly LP 1081, Joy Records JOYS 129, Vee-Jay DS 7006, Vee-Jay LP 1023
CD
Avid Roots EMSC1208, Chameleon D2-74794, Charly CD 62, Charly CDGR 284, Charly CR RED 6, Collectables COL 0108, Soul Jam Records 600804, Timeless Classic Albums DOLCD0475, Tomato R2 71659, 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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