Birmingham blues
Master
63-3311
Location/Date
Universal Recording Corporation
Chicago, IL, 1963
Vee-Jay 538
Lineup
John Lee Hooker, vcl/gtr; Unknown, saxes; Unknown, pno; Unknown, gtr; Unknown, bs; Unknown, dms;
Produced by
Calvin Carter
Vee-Jay 538
EP
Discophon 27.385
LP
Buddah Records BDS 7506, Joy Records JOYS 152, Stateside SL 10074, Vee-Jay LP 1066
CD
Charly CD 170, Charly CD DIG 5, Charly CPCD 8242-2, Charly CR RED 6, Charly SNAJ 705, Collectables COL 0108, Craft Recordings CR00015, Fruit Tree FT821, Shout! Factory 8 26663 10198, Snapper Music SBLUECD020, Soul Jam Records 806181, SPV Recordings SPVCD 95940, Union Square Music INTROTCD01, Union Square Music METRTN014, Vee-Jay Records VJD 81066
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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