I'll know tonight

Master
60-1375 

Location/Date
Universal Recording Corporation
Chicago, IL, March 1 1960

Original release
Vee-Jay LP 1023

Lineup
John Lee Hooker, vcl/gtr;  Lefty Bates, gtr;  Sylvester Hickman, bs;  Jimmy Turner, dms

Produced by
Calvin Carter

LP
Charly CRB 1081, Diggers Factory MOR‑909, Everest Records FS 369, Joy Records JOYS 129, Not Now Music NOT3LP258, Pan Am Records 9152308, Vee‑Jay DS 7006, Vee‑Jay LP 1023, Vinyl Passion VP80784 , Wax Love WLV82054, WaxTime 772039

CD
Avid Roots EMSC1208, Big3 Records BT3229, Charly CDGR 284, Charly CR RED 6, Collectables COL 0108, Documents 600258, Not Now Music NOT2CD518, Not Now Music NOT4CD031, Soul Jam Records 600804, Timeless Classic Albums DOLCD0475, Vee‑Jay VJD 81023

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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