Rosie Mae

Alternate title
Nothing but trouble

Master
57-719 

Location/Date
Universal Recording Corporation
Chicago, IL, June 23 1957

Original release
Vee-Jay 255

Lineup
John Lee Hooker, vcl/gtr;  Eddie Taylor, gtr;  Frankie Bradford, pno;  Everett McCrary, bs;  Richard Johnson, dms

Produced by
Calvin Carter

78 rpm
Vee‑Jay 255

45 rpm
Vee‑Jay 255

LP
DJM DJD 28026, Saga Records 089 116‑2, Universal 678 199‑5, Wax Love WLV82053

CD
Acrobat ACQCD 7103, Charly CD 62, Charly CD BM 19, Charly CR RED 6, Charly SNAJ 705, Hoodoo Records 263499, Jasmine Records JASCD 562, Not Now Music NOT2CD518, Saga Records 532 122‑3, Union Square Music METRTN014, Vee‑Jay NVD2‑713

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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