This is hip
Master
63-3112
Location/Date
Universal Recording Corporation
Chicago, IL, 1963
Charly CRB 1004
Lineup
John Lee Hooker, vcl/gtr; Unknown, dms
Produced by
Calvin Carter
Charly CRB 1004, Instant INS 5009, Red Bank Records RBR002
CD
Charly CBMCD016, Charly CD 4, Charly CD BM 7, Charly CD DIG 5, Charly CDGR 151, Charly CDRB 10, Charly CPCD 8242‑2, Charly CR RED 6, Charly QBCD 8, Charly SNAJ 705, Charly VBCD 301, Fruit Tree FT821, Instant CD INS 5009, Music Club MCCD 020, Recall SMDCD 187, Snapper Music SBLUECD020, Union Square Music INTROTCD01, 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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