Leavin' Chicago

Alternate titles
Highway blues, War is over

Location/Date
609 Lafayette Street
Detroit, MI, August 1948

Original release
Krazy Kat KK 200

Lineup
John Lee Hooker, vcl/gtr

Produced by
Elmer Barbee

LP
Krazy Kat KK 200

CD
Body & Soul 3057012, Krazy Kat CD 05, Union Square Music SIMPTNCD026

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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