Nightmare
Location/Date
Universal Recording Corporation
Chicago, IL, June 1958
Charly LP 1029
Lineup
John Lee Hooker, vcl/gtr; Everett McCrary, bs; Richard Johnson, dms
Produced by
Calvin Carter
Chameleon D1-74794, Charly LP 1029, The Devil's Tunes DEVILP002
CD
Chameleon D2-74794, Charly CDGR 284, Charly CR RED 6, Charly SNAJ 705, The Devil's Tunes DEVICD002, Union Square Music METRTN014
Comments
Recorded at Vee-Jay rehearsal session.
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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