The road is so rough
Alternate title
When I started hoboing
Master
56-447
Location/Date
Universal Recording Corporation
Chicago, IL, March 27 1956
Vee-Jay 233
Lineup
John Lee Hooker, vcl/gtr; Eddie Taylor, gtr; George Washington, bs; Tom Whitehead, dms
Produced by
Calvin Carter
Vee-Jay 233
45 rpm
Vee-Jay 233
EP
Top Rank RES 136
LP
Charly LP 1014, DJM DJD 28026
CD
Acrobat ACQCD 7103, Charly CD 62, Charly CD BM 19, Charly CR RED 6, Charly SNAJ 705, Fruit Tree FT821, Hoodoo Records 263481, Jasmine Records JASCD 562, Saga 532 122-3, Union Square Music METRTN014, Vee-Jay NVD2-713
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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