Trouble blues
Master
56-448
Location/Date
Universal Recording Corporation
Chicago, IL, March 27 1956
Vee-Jay 188
Lineup
John Lee Hooker, vcl/gtr; Eddie Taylor, gtr; George Washington, bs; Tom Whitehead, dms
Produced by
Calvin Carter
Vee‑Jay 188
45 rpm
Vee‑Jay 188
LP
Charly CRB 1014, DJM DJD 28026, Trip TLX‑9504, Trip TOP 16‑46, Up Front UPF 104, Wax Love WLV82053
CD
Acrobat ACQCD 7103, Charly CD 62, Charly CD BM 19, Charly CDGR 281, Charly CR RED 6, Charly SNAJ 705, Digital Deja2 D2CD07, Fruit Tree FT821, 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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