The Vee-Jay Sessions

Tracklist

• 1
  Unfriendly Woman (aka Stop Now)
  2:54
• 2
  Wheel and Deal
  2:33
• 3
  Mambo Chillun
  2:48
• 4
  Time Is Marching
  2:59
  3.0 ★
• 5
  I’m So Worried Baby
  3:13
• 6
  Dimples
  2:11
  3.0 ★
• 7
  Every Night
  2:59
• 8
  The Road Is So Rough (aka When I Started Hoboing)
  3:03
• 9
  Trouble Blues
  2:46
• 10
  Stop Talking
  2:12
• 11
  Everybody’s Rockin’
  2:41
• 12
  I’m So Excited
  2:54
• 13
  I See You When You’re Weak
  2:54
• 14
  Crawlin’ Black Spider (aka Mean Old Snake)
  2:45
• 15
  Little Wheel
  2:36
• 16
  Little Fine Woman
  2:27
• 17
  Rosie Mae (aka Nothing but Trouble)
  2:47
• 18
  You Can Lead Me Baby (aka Lead Me on)
  2:47
• 19
  I Love You Honey
  2:34
  4.0 ★
• 20
  You’ve Taken My Woman
  2:31
• 21
  Mama, You Got a Daughter
  2:36
• 22
  Maudie
  2:20
• 23
  I’m in the Mood
  2:43
  3.0 ★
• 24
  Hobo Blues
  2:50
• 25
  Crawlin’ King Snake
  2:41
• 26
  No Shoes
  2:26
  1.0 ★
• 27
  I Wanna Walk
  2:14
• 28
  Canal Street Blues
  2:54
• 29
  Run On
  2:11
• 30
  I’m a Stranger
  2:41
• 31
  Whiskey and Wimmen
  2:58
• 32
  Solid Sender
  2:34
• 33
  Sunny Land
  2:29
• 34
  Goin’ to California
  2:23
• 35
  I Can’t Believe
  2:50
• 36
  I’ll Know Tonight
  2:40
• 37
  Dusty Road
  2:18
• 38
  I’m Mad Again
  2:40
• 39
  I’m Going Upstairs
  2:55
  1.0 ★
• 40
  Want Ad Blues
  2:16
• 41
  Five Long Years
  3:37
• 42
  I Like to See You Walk
  2:54
• 43
  Hard-Headed Woman
  2:30
• 44
  Wednesday Evening Blues
  3:58
• 45
  Take Me as I Am
  3:01
• 46
  My First Wife Left Me
  3:33
• 47
  You’re Looking Good Tonight
  2:55
• 48
  Boom Boom
  2:34
  3.2 ★
• 49
  Process
  3:48
• 50
  Lost a Good Girl
  2:51
• 51
  A New Leaf
  2:30
  1.0 ★
• 52
  Blues Before Sunrise
  3:49
  1.0 ★
• 53
  Let’s Make It
  2:27
  1.0 ★
• 54
  I Got a Letter (This Morning)
  2:44
  1.0 ★
• 55
  Thelma
  3:31
  1.0 ★
• 56
  Drug Store Woman
  2:47
  1.0 ★
• 57
  Keep Your Hands to Yourself (She’s Mine)
  2:10
• 58
  What Do You Say
  2:27
• 59
  San Francisco
  2:46
• 60
  Take a Look at Yourself
  2:48
• 61
  Send Me Your Pillow
  2:25
• 62
  She Shot Me Down
  2:50
• 63
  I Love Her
  2:14
• 64
  Old Time Shimmy
  2:21
• 65
  You Know I Love You
  1:56
• 66
  Big Soul
  2:09
• 67
  Good Rockin’ Mama
  2:28
• 68
  Onions
  2:10
• 69
  No One Told Me (People Are Talking)
  2:08
• 70
  I’m Leaving
  2:14
• 71
  Love Is a Burning Thing
  2:39
• 72
  Birmingham Blues
  2:54
• 73
  I Want to Shout
  2:25
• 74
  Don’t Look Back
  2:56
• 75
  I Want to Hug You
  2:42
• 76
  Poor Me
  3:11
• 77
  I Want to Ramble
  2:29
• 78
  Half a Stranger
  4:24
• 79
  My Grinding Mill
  3:11
• 80
  Bottle Up and Go
  2:27
• 81
  One Way Ticket
  3:27
• 82
  New Sally Mae
  3:36
• 83
  You Baby Ain’t Sweet Like Mine
  2:37
• 84
  She’s Long She’s Tall
  2:28
• 85
  You’re Mellow
  4:09
• 86
  Will the Circle Be Unbroken
  2:33
  3.0 ★
• 87
  Flowers on the Hour
  2:38
• 88
  It Serves Me Right
  3:36
• 89
  You Ain’t No Big Thing Baby
  4:10
• 90
  You Can Run Baby
  2:59

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Release credits

• Andrew “Mike” Terry
  baritone saxophone [74]
• Benny Benjamin
  drums (drum set) [48, 74]
• Calvin Carter
  producer [48, 51-56, 58]
• Earl Phillips
  drums (drum set) [39]
• Eddie Burns
  guitar [23]
• Eddie Taylor
  guitar [3-4, 6]
• George Washington
  bass [6], bass guitar [3-4]
• Hank Crosby
  tenor saxophone [48]
• Henry Cosby
  tenor saxophone [74]
• James Jamerson
  bass [48], bass guitar [74]
• Jimmy Reed
  harmonica [3-4]
• Jimmy Turner
  drums (drum set) [26]
• Joe Hunter
  piano [48]
• John Lee Hooker
  arranger [86], guitar [3-4, 6, 23, 26, 39, 48, 74], lead vocals [23], vocal [3-4, 6, 26, 39, 48, 68, 74]
• Larry Veeder
  guitar [74]
• Lefty Bates
  guitar [26]
• Marshall Chess
  executive [23]
• Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
  background vocals [74]
• Memphis Slim
  piano [74]
• Quinn Wilson
  bass guitar [39]
• Ralph Bass
  producer [23]
• Roebuck “Pops” Staples
  guitar [39]
• Ron Malo
  editor [23]
• Sylvester Hickman
  bass [26]
• Tom Whitehead
  drums (drum set) [3-4]
• [unknown]
  instrument [23]
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  The Vee-Jay Sessions

  Digital Media
  18 February 2025