Unfriendly woman

Alternate title
Stop now

Master
55-336 

Location/Date
Universal Recording Corporation
Chicago, IL, October 19 1955

Original release
Vee-Jay 265

Lineup
John Lee Hooker, vcl/gtr;  Jimmy Reed, hca;  Eddie Taylor, gtr;  George Washington, bs;  Tom Whitehead, dms

Produced by
Calvin Carter

78 rpm
Vee‑Jay 265

45 rpm
Vee‑Jay 265

LP
Charly CRB 1014, Delta Blues DELB008LP, DJM DJD 28026, Red Bank Records RBR002, Wax Love WLV82053

CD
Acrobat ACQCD 7103, Charly CD 62, Charly CD BM 19, Charly CDGR 281, Charly CR RED 6, Charly SNAJ 705, Craft Recordings CR00015, Digital Deja2 D2CD07, Not Now Music NOT2CD518, Recall SMDCD 187, Saga Records 532 122‑3, Snapper Music SBLUECD020, 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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