Sunny land
Alternate title
Notoriety woman
Master
60-1381
Location/Date
Universal Recording Corporation
Chicago, IL, March 1 1960
Vee-Jay LP 1023
Lineup
John Lee Hooker, vcl/gtr; Lefty Bates, gtr; Sylvester Hickman, bs; Jimmy Turner, dms
Produced by
Calvin Carter
Charly CRB 1081, Everest Records FS 369, Joy Records JOYS 129, Pan Am Records 9152308, Vee‑Jay LP 1023, Vinyl Passion VP80784 , WaxTime 772039
CD
Avid Roots EMSC1208, Charly CDGR 284, Charly CR RED 6, Charly SNAJ 705, Collectables COL 0108, Documents 600258, Fruit Tree FT821, 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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