Tennessee blues
Master
59-1068
Location/Date
Universal Recording Corporation
Chicago, IL, January 22 1959
Vee-Jay 319
Lineup
John Lee Hooker, vcl/gtr; Eddie Taylor, gtr; Earl Phillips, dms
Produced by
Calvin Carter
Vee‑Jay 319
45 rpm
Vee‑Jay 319
LP
Charly CRB 1029, Saga Records 089 116‑2, Universal 678 199‑5
CD
Acrobat ACQCD 7103, Charly CR RED 6, Jasmine Records JASCD 562, Not Now Music NOT2CD518, Not Now Music NOT4CD031, Union Square Music METRTN014
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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