Curl my baby's hair
Alternate title
Miss Sadie Mae
Master
F-159
Location/Date
609 Lafayette Street
Detroit, MI, Early 1949
Fortune 846
Lineup
John Lee Hooker, vcl/gtr; James Watkins, pno; Curtis Foster, dms
Produced by
Elmer Barbee
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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