6x CD

The Vee‐Jay Years

Compilation by John Lee Hooker

Released 1992

blues chicago blues

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Tracklist

CD 1: Chicago, 1955-1957
1
Unfriendly Woman
2:54
2
Wheel and Deal
2:33
3
Mambo Chillun
2:48
4
Time Is Marching
3:03
3.0 ★
5
I'm So Worried Baby
3:13
6
Baby Lee
3:00
7
Dimples
2:12
3.0 ★
8
Every Night
3:00
9
The Road Is So Rough
3:03
10
Trouble Blues
2:46
11
Stop Talking
2:12
12
Everybody Rockin'
2:41
13
I'm So Excited
2:55
14
I See You When You're Weak
2:54
15
Crawlin' Black Spider
2:45
16
Little Wheel
2:40
17
Little Fine Woman
2:26
18
Rosie Mae
2:47
19
You Can Lead Me Baby
2:43
CD 2: Chicago, 1958-1959
1
I Love You Honey
2:35
4.0 ★
2
You've Taken My Woman
2:30
3
Mama, You Got a Daughter
3:43
4
Nightmare
4:27
5
House Rent Boogie
4:04
6
Trying to Fine a Woman
3:39
7
Drive Me Away
2:56
8
I'm Goin' Home
3:58
9
Love Me All the Time
3:14
10
Lou Della
4:03
11
Bundle Up and Go
2:32
12
Wrong Doin' Woman
3:42
13
Maudie
2:25
14
Tennessee Blues
2:26
15
I'm in the Mood
2:45
3.0 ★
16
Boogie Chillun
2:37
1.0 ★
17
Hobo Blues
2:50
18
Crawlin' Kingsnake
2:44
1.0 ★
CD 3: Chicago & New York, 1960
1
I Wanna Walk
2:15
2
Canal Street Blues
2:56
3
I'll Know Tonight
2:41
4
I Can't Believe
2:52
5
Goin' to California
2:26
6
Whiskey and Wimmen
2:59
7
Run On
2:12
8
Solid Sender
2:37
9
Sunny Land
2:32
10
Dusty Road
2:21
11
I'm a Stranger
2:43
12
No Shoes
2:26
1.0 ★
13
Five Long Years
3:39
14
I Like to See You Walk
2:55
15
Wednesday Evening
4:00
16
Take Me as I Am
3:02
17
My First Wife Left Me
3:35
18
You're Looking Good Tonight
2:58
19
You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone
3:03
20
Dirty Ground Hog
3:33
21
She Loves My Best Friend
4:35
22
Sally Mae
4:02
23
Moanin' Blues
3:15
CD 4: Newport & Chicago, 1960-1961
1
The Hobo
3:07
2
Maudie
2:46
3
Tupelo
3:24
4
Want Ad Blues
2:17
5
Will the Circle Be Unbroken
2:35
3.0 ★
6
I'm Goin' Upstairs
2:58
1.0 ★
7
I Left My Baby
4:27
8
Hard Headed Woman
2:33
9
I'm Mad Again
2:42
10
Process
3:50
11
Thelma
3:32
1.0 ★
12
What Do You Say
2:31
13
Boom Boom
2:31
3.2 ★
14
Blues Before Sunrise
3:52
1.0 ★
15
I Lost a Good Girl
2:53
1.0 ★
16
She's Mine (Keep Your Hands to Yourself)
2:12
17
She's Mine (Keep Your Hands to Yourself) (alternate take)
2:23
18
I Got a Letter This Morning
2:45
1.0 ★
19
A New Leaf
2:31
1.0 ★
20
Let's Make It
2:24
1.0 ★
21
Drug Store Woman
2:44
1.0 ★
CD 5: Chicago, 1962-1963
1
Old Time Shimmy
2:22
2
Onions
2:11
3
You Know I Love You
1:57
4
Send Me Your Pillow
2:26
5
Big Soul
2:10
6
Frisco Blues
2:47
7
She Shot Me Down
2:52
8
Take a Look at Yourself
2:49
9
Good Rocking Mama
2:29
10
I Love Her
2:15
11
No One Told Me
2:12
12
One Way Ticket
3:30
13
Half a Stranger
4:25
14
Bottle Up and Go
2:26
15
My Grinding Mill
3:13
16
I Want to Ramble
2:30
17
Sadie Mae
2:55
18
This Is Hip
2:31
19
Poor Me
3:13
20
I Want to Shout
2:26
21
Love Is a Burning Thing
2:42
22
I Want to Hug Her
2:43
23
I'm Leaving
2:14
24
Birmingham Blues
2:55
25
Don't Look Back
2:58
26
Don't Look Back (edit version)
2:38
CD 6: Newport & Chicago, 1963-1964
1
I Can't Quit You Now Blues
2:51
2
Stop Baby Don't Hold Me That Way
1:44
3
Tupelo
5:17
4
Bus Station Blues
3:39
5
Freight Train Be My Friend
3:25
6
Boom, Boom, Boom
2:30
3.2 ★
7
Talk That Talk Baby
1:25
8
Sometime Baby You Make Me Feel So Bad
3:27
9
You've Got to Walk Yourself
4:52
10
Let's Make It
2:23
11
The Mighty Fire
4:45
12
Big Legs, Tight Skirt
2:18
2.0 ★
13
Flowers on the Hour
2:40
14
It Serves Me Right to Suffer
3:33
15
Ain't No Big Thing Baby
4:13
16
She Left Me One Wednesday
3:43
17
You Can Run Baby
3:05
18
New Sally Mae
3:37
19
Your Baby Ain't Sweet Like Mine
2:40
20
She's Long, She's Tall
2:30
21
You're Mellow
4:08

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Release credits

Andrew “Mike” Terry
baritone saxophone [25]
Benny Benjamin
drums (drum set) [6.6, 4.13, 5.25]
Calvin Carter
producer [4.11-15, 4.18-21, 6.6]
Earl Phillips
drums (drum set) [6]
Eddie Burns
guitar [15]
Eddie Taylor
guitar [3-4, 7]
George Washington
bass [7], bass guitar [3-4]
Hank Crosby
tenor saxophone [6.6, 4.13]
Henry Cosby
tenor saxophone [25]
James Jamerson
bass [6.6, 4.13], bass guitar [25]
Jimmy Reed
harmonica [3-4]
Jimmy Turner
drums (drum set) [12]
Joe Hunter
piano [4.13, 6.6]
John Lee Hooker
arranger [5], guitar [3.12, 1.3-4, 1.7, 2.15, 4.6, 4.13, 6.6, 6.12, 5.25], lead vocals [15], vocal [6.6, 6.12, 3.12, 1.3-4, 1.6-7, 4.6, 4.13, 5.2, 5.25]
Larry Veeder
guitar [25]
Lefty Bates
guitar [12]
Marshall Chess
executive [15]
Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
background vocals [25]
Memphis Slim
piano [25]
Quinn Wilson
bass guitar [6]
Ralph Bass
producer [15]
Roebuck “Pops” Staples
guitar [6]
Ron Malo
editor [15]
Sylvester Hickman
bass [12]
Tom Whitehead
drums (drum set) [3-4]
[unknown]
instrument [6.12, 2.15]

Issues

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(Combined release view)
T
The Vee‐Jay Years
6x CD
1992
T
The Vee-Jay Box: The Complete Singles and Other Rarities
6x CD
23 March 1999