Curl my baby's hair

Alternate title
Miss Sadie Mae

Master
F-159 

Location/Date
609 Lafayette Street
Detroit, MI, Early 1949

Original release
Fortune 846

Lineup
John Lee Hooker, vcl/gtr; James Watkins, pno; Curtis Foster, dms

Produced by
Elmer Barbee

78 rpm
Fortune 846

45 rpm
Fortune 846

LP
Fortune LP 3002

CD
Body & Soul 3063142, Craft Recordings CR00015

By 1948, Hooker came to the attention of Elmer Barbee, a local record shop owner. Barbee arranged to have several demos recorded. He or Hooker later presented the recordings to Bernard "Bernie" Besman, who ran the Detroit area's only professional record company.


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