Moaning blues
Alternate title
Moanin' and stompin' blues
Master
K 5775 Take 2
Location/Date
3530 Hastings Street
Detroit, MI, August 1949
King 4377
Lineup
John Lee Hooker, vcl/gtr
Produced by
Joe Von Battle
King 4377, King 4504
45 rpm
King 6298
LP
Ember Records EMB 3356, Gusto GD 5032X-2, King KS 1085, King LP 725, King LP 727, Polydor 2310256
CD
Avid Roots AMSC1382, Body & Soul 3063142, Charly 245, Collectables COL CD 2877, Craft Recordings CR00015, JSP Records JSPCD7703, Proper Records PROPERBOX 111, Soul Jam Records 600843, Union Square Music INTROTCD01, Varèse Vintage 302 066 597 2
Many of the early Joe Von Battle productions in Detroit were done in Battle’s Record Shop at 3530 Hastings Street. Battle was responsible for re-selling several of the very first Elmer Barbee pseudonym recordings to different record companies. Barbee had quit as Hooker’s manager by 1951. Battle, though, was some kind of ”agent” for Hooker up until the 1960s.
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