Documenting the Sensation Recordings 1948-52

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Sally Mae
  3:13
  1.0 ★
• 2
  War Is Over (Goodbye California) (extended version)
  3:23
• 3
  War Is Over (Goodbye California) (alt take)
  3:11
• 4
  War Is Over (Goodbye California) (alt extended version)
  2:59
• 5
  Boogie Chillen'
  3:10
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Henry's Swing Club
  3:12
• 7
  Drifting From Door to Door
  3:05
• 8
  Hobo Blues
  3:03
  1.0 ★
• 9
  Numbers Blues (aka She Ain't Good for Nothin')
  2:59
• 10
  Alberta
  3:06
• 11
  Alberta (alt take)
  3:05
• 12
  Howlin' Wolf
  2:40
• 13
  Crawlin' King Snake
  3:03
  1.0 ★
• 14
  Hoogie Boogie (instrumental)
  2:57
• 15
  Hastings Street Boogie (extended version)
  3:05
• 16
  Build Myself a Cave (take #1)
  2:58
• 17
  Build Myself a Cave (take #2)
  2:55
• 18
  Build Myself a Cave (take #3)
  2:59
• 19
  Build Myself a Cave
  2:59
• 20
  Graveyard Blues
  2:47
• 21
  Momma Poppa Boogie
  2:59
• 22
  Burnin' Hell
  2:45
  1.0 ★
• 23
  Sailing Blues (aka Drifting Blues)
  2:50
• 24
  Black Cat Blues
  2:58
• CD 2
• 1
  Weeping Willow Boogie
  2:51
• 2
  Miss Sadie Mae
  3:11
• 3
  Sail on Little Girl
  2:16
• 4
  Alberta Part 2
  2:45
• 5
  Wednesday Evening
  3:01
• 6
  Canal Street Blues
  2:46
• 7
  Huckle Up Baby
  2:48
• 8
  Let Your Daddy Ride
  2:40
• 9
  Goin' on Highway #51
  2:31
• 10
  My Baby's Got Somethin'
  2:50
• 11
  Boogie Chillen' #2 (take 1)
  2:46
  1.0 ★
• 12
  Boogie Chillen' #2 (take 2)
  2:52
  1.0 ★
• 13
  Boogie Chillen' #2 (take 4)
  2:49
  1.0 ★
• 14
  Boogie Chillen' #2
  2:46
  1.0 ★
• 15
  Boogie Chillen' #2 (aka 21 Boogie) (extended version)
  2:58
  1.0 ★
• 16
  Roll 'n' Roll (alt take)
  2:49
  1.0 ★
• 17
  Rollin' Blues
  2:44
• 18
  Three Long Years Today
  3:07
• 19
  Strike Blues (extended version)
  3:06
  1.0 ★
• 20
  Do My Baby Think of Me
  2:54
• 21
  Give Me Your Phone Number (alt take)
  2:46
• 22
  The Story of a Married Woman (alt take)
  2:41
• 23
  Moon Is Rising (alt take)
  3:00
  1.0 ★
• CD 3
• 1
  John L's House Rent Boogie (aka House Rent Boogie)
  2:52
• 2
  John L's House Rent Boogie (fragment) (alt incomplete take)
  1:10
• 3
  Queen Bee
  2:36
• 4
  Grinder Man
  3:11
• 5
  Walkin' This Highway
  2:19
• 6
  Women in My Life (aka Goin' Away Baby)
  3:13
• 7
  Tease Me Baby (aka Tease Me Over Baby)
  3:01
• 8
  I Need Lovin' (aka Tease Me Over Baby)
  2:57
• 9
  How Can You Do It
  2:46
• 10
  I'm in the Mood (three voice)
  3:09
  3.0 ★
• 11
  I'm in the Mood (humming version)
  3:08
  3.0 ★
• 12
  I'm in the Mood (harmonica overdub)
  3:07
  3.0 ★
• 13
  I'm in the Mood (alt - one voice)
  3:01
  3.0 ★
• 14
  Turn Over a New Leaf
  3:12
• 15
  It Hurts Me So
  2:47
• 16
  It Hurts Me So (alt take)
  2:38
• 17
  I Got Eyes for You
  2:40
• 18
  I Got Eyes for You (take 2 or take 5)
  2:52
• 19
  Key to the Highway
  2:34
• 20
  I Got the Key (aka Key to the Highway)
  2:46
• 21
  Bluebird Blues
  2:44
• 22
  That's All Right
  2:20
• 23
  It's Time for Lovin' to Be Done
  3:01
• 24
  That's All Right Boogie (under dub)
  2:19

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Release credits

• Bernard Besman
  producer [1.5, 1.13-14, 1.22, 2.7, 2.9, 3.17]
• Eddie Burns
  harmonica [22]
• Eddie Kirkland
  guitar [10, 17]
• John Lee Hooker
  guitar [1.5-6, 1.13-14, 1.20, 1.22, 2.4, 2.7, 2.9, 2.9-10, 3.10, 3.17], lead vocals [1.6, 1.20, 2.4, 2.7, 2.9-10], vocal [2.7, 2.9, 3.10, 3.17, 1.5, 1.13-14, 1.22]

Issues

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  Documenting the Sensation Recordings 1948-52

  3x CD
  29 May 2020