I'm mad again
Master
61-1720
Location/Date
Universal Recording Corporation
Chicago, IL, January 4 1961
Vee-Jay 379
Lineup
John Lee Hooker, vcl/gtr; Lefty Bates, gtr; Quinn Wilson, bs; Earl Phillips, dms
Produced by
Calvin Carter
Vee‑Jay 379
LP
Charly CRB 1014, Diggers Factory MOR‑909, Joy Records JOYS 133, Vee‑Jay LP 1033, Vinyl Lovers 6785447, Wax Love WLV82054
CD
Acrobat ACQCD 7103, Big3 Records BT3229, Charly CBMCD016, Charly CD 62, Charly CD DIG 5, Charly CDGR 151, Charly CDGR 300, Charly CDRB 10, 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, Hoodoo Records 263499, Not Now Music NOT2CD518, Not Now Music NOT4CD031, Rat Pack Records 783721, Recall SMDCD 187, Soul Jam Records 600881, Union Square Music INTROTCD01, Union Square Music METRTN014, Vee‑Jay VJD 81033
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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