JOHN LEE HOOKER feat. EARL HOOKER If You Miss 'Im LP BLUESWAY 1969 US orig+stere

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 plus *PAUL ASBELL guitar, JOHNNY 'Big Moose' WALKER piano & organ, JEFFREY CAMP harmonica,

CHESTER 'Gino' SKAGGS bass, ROOSEVELT SHAW drums

The most elemental of the electric blues giants, one of few to both inspire and draw from rock & roll idols

"IF YOU MISS 'IM...I GOT 'IM"

Produced by Ed Michel

1969    LP     BLUESWAY RECORDS      BLS-6038  STEREO

PRINTED IN USA    ORIGINAL COPY

THICK CARDBOARD COVER (AMERICAN STYLE)

This version: First pressing on Black label with a blue perimeter.

[according with Goldmine Price Guide/Fifth edition: During the first year, 1967-68, the label was blue. 

This was replaced by a black label with a blue perimeter]

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode: none

LABEL:  BLUESWAY -  BLACK LABEL WITH BLUE PERIMETER - SILVER TEXT

Catalog on cover: BLS-6038

Catalog on labels: BLS-6038-A / BLS-6038-B

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): BL-S-6038-A

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): BL-S-6038-B

Other / Runout (on both sides, Etched): LW

On labels: rim text reads "A Product of ABC Records, Inc. New York, N.Y. 10019 ? Made in USA"

Written by: John Lee Hooker

Published by: Pamco Music, Inc.-BMI

Produced by: Ed Michel

On back cover: Recorded at Vault Recordings, Los Angeles, 29 May, 1969

A Product of ABC Records...........©Copyright MCMLXX, ABC Records, Inc.

from my records collection

tracklisting

Side A: THE HOOKERS (If You Miss 'Im...I Got 'Im) - BABY, I LOVE YOU

LONESOME MOOD - *BANG BANG BANG BANG

IF YOU TAKE CARE OF ME, I'LL TAKE CARE OF YOU

Side B: BABY, BE STRONG - I WANNA BE YOUR PUPPY, BABY

I DON'T CARE WHEN YOU GO - HAVE MERCY ON MY SOUL!

  grading

RECORD VG+ but (please, read above description)

SLEEVE VG(+) but (please, see pictures and read above description)

This album is marked by the interaction between John Lee Hooker and his guitar-playing 

cousin Earl. Earl, who succumbed to illness in 1970, was a fine bluesman in his own right, 

possessing a formidable slide technique. Many are unaware that the two often performed 

together, and the band that accompanies John Lee here also backed Earl frequently. 

The opening cut, then, a slow 12-bar number called "The Hookers" is not about ladies 

of the evening, but rather about the gentlemen in question.

Heard here less than a year before his death, Earl still sounds frisky and versatile, 

often utilizing a funky wah-wah style without ever descending into the psychedelic 

excesses that plagued so many late-'60s electric blues albums. One of the most 

effective cuts is "Lonesome Mood," a low-key, one-chord stomper in the classic 

John Lee mold, where Earl's wah-wah guitar meshes with Johnny Walker's organ 

and Jefferey Carp's harmonica to create a subtly shifting, sensuously undulating 

web of sound over which John Lee works his hoodoo...(AllMusic)