You can lead me baby

Alternate title
Lead me on

Master
57-720 

Location/Date
Universal Recording Corporation
Chicago, IL, June 23 1957

Original release
Vee-Jay 265

Lineup
John Lee Hooker, vcl/gtr;  Eddie Taylor, gtr;  Frankie Bradford, pno;  Everett McCrary, bs;  Richard Johnson, dms

Produced by
Calvin Carter

78 rpm
Vee‑Jay 265

45 rpm
Vee‑Jay 265

LP
Charly CRB 1081, Delta Blues DELB008LP, DJM DJD 28026, Red Bank Records RBR002, Wagram Music 3394126, Wax Love WLV82053

CD
Acrobat ACQCD 7103, Charly CD 4, Charly CD BM 19, Charly CDGR 281, Charly CR RED 6, Charly QBCD 8, Charly SNAJ 705, Not Now Music NOT2CD518, Recall SMDCD 187, Saga Records 532 122‑3, 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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