Hobo blues
Master
59-1071
Location/Date
Universal Recording Corporation
Chicago, IL, January 22 1959
Vee-Jay 331
Lineup
John Lee Hooker, vcl/gtr
Produced by
Calvin Carter
Vee‑Jay 331
45 rpm
Collectables COL 3358, Vee‑Jay 331
LP
Bellevue Publishing 02090‑VB, Blues Joint 8008, Bulldog Records BDL 1011, Charly CRB 1081, Delta Blues DELB008LP, Diggers Factory MOR‑909, Discophon S.C. 2.043, DJM DJD 28026, Everest Records FS 222, GNP Crescendo GNPS 2‑10007, Instant INS 5009, Joy Records JOY 101, Not Now Music NOT3LP258, Pan Am Records 9152254, Power Station Music 3566, Rat Pack Records 783721, Red Bank Records RBR002, Saga Records 089 116‑2, Top Rank International 33.002, Trip TLX‑9504, Trip TOP 16‑46, Universal 678 199‑5, Up Front UPF 104, Vee‑Jay LP 1007, Wagram Music 3358456, Wagram Music 3394126, Wax Love WLV82054, WaxTime 771919
CD
Acrobat ACQCD 7103, Avid Roots EMSC1208, Charly CD 4, Charly CD BM 7, Charly CD DIG 5, Charly CDGR 151, Charly CDGR 281, Charly CPCD 8242‑2, Charly CR RED 6, Charly SNAJ 705, Charly VBCD 301, Collectables COL 0108, Digital Deja2 D2CD07, Documents 600258, Fruit Tree FT821, GNP Crescendo GNPD 2‑0007, Instant CD INS 5009, Jasmine Records JASCD 562, Music Club MCCD 020, Not Now Music NOT2CD518, Not Now Music NOT4CD031, Rat Pack Records 783721, Shout! Factory 8 26663 10646, Snapper Music SBLUECD020, Soul Jam Records 600804, Soul Jam Records 600871, Soul Jam Records 600913, Soul Jam Records 806184, Timeless Classic Albums DOLCD0475, Union Square Music METRTN014, Vee‑Jay VJD 81007
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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