Run on
Master
60-1379
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
Charly LP 1081, Everest Records FS 369, Joy Records JOYS 129, Pan Am Records 9152308, Vee-Jay LP 1023, WaxTime 772039
CD
Avid Roots EMSC1208, Charly CD 62, Charly CDGR 284, Charly CR RED 6, Collectables COL 0108, Hoodoo Records 263499, Soul Jam Records 600804, Soul Jam Records 600881, Soul Jam Records 600913, Timeless Classic Albums DOLCD0475
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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