Will the circle be unbroken
Master
61-1716
Location/Date
Universal Recording Corporation
Chicago, IL, January 4 1961
Dynasty VJS (DY) 7301
Lineup
John Lee Hooker, vcl/gtr; Roebuck 'Pop' Staples, gtr ?; Lefty Bates, gtr; Quinn Wilson, bs; Earl Phillips, dms
Produced by
Calvin Carter
Dynasty 4501
LP
Charly CRB 1004, Dynasty VJS (DY) 7301, Red Bank Records RBR002, Wagram Music 3394126
CD
Charly CD 4, Charly CD BM 7, Charly CR RED 6, Charly QBCD 8, Collectables COL 0108, Craft Recordings CR00015, Suite Beat SBCD2012, Union Square Music METRTN014, Vee‑Jay VJD 81049, Vee‑Jay VJD 87301
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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