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EARL HOOKER

Earl Hooker is considered to be one of the most important blues guitarists of the post-war era. If there was a more immaculate slide guitarist residing in Chicago during the 1950s and '60s than Earl Hooker, his name has yet to surface. Boasting a fretboard touch so smooth and clean that every note rang as clear and precise as a bell, Hooker was an endlessly inventive axeman who would likely have been a star had his modest vocal abilities matched his instrumental prowess and had he not been dogged by tuberculosis (it killed him at age 41).Born in the Mississippi Delta, Hooker arrived in Chicago as a child...

1981      LP     P-VINE SPECIAL RECORDS      PLP-9015          MONO   

MADE IN JAPAN    ORIGINAL PRESSING

SINGLE COVER + CREDITS/LYRICS INSERT + OBI

THICK CARDBOARD COVER (American Style)

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode: none

LABEL: P-VINE SPECIAL -  BROWN/TAN LABEL W/LOGO on TOP - BLACK TEXT

Catalog on cover: (front, spine, obi, insert) PLP-9015     (rear) PLP-9014

Catalog on labels: PLP-9015  PLP-9015A / PLP-9015  PLP-9015B

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): Z 〄 Ⓡ  PLP 9015A Ⓢ  1 1 1 +  D F I N O Q [characters not legible]

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): Z PLP 9015B Ⓢ  1 1 1 +

On labels: rim text reads "All Rights.................Made by Blues Interactions, Tokyo, Japan"

TOKYO JAPAN

MONO

*Vocal By Lillian Offitt

**Vocal By A.C. Reed

On Insert: Tracklist + Lyrics

On Obi: ¥ 2,300

On Back Cover: TOKYO JAPAN ℗ 1980(boxed, top right)

P-VINE SPECIAL  PLP-9014

Manufactured by Blues.................under license from Jewel Records Corp., Shrevenport, Louisiana, U.S.A.

tracklisting

Side A: ROCKIN' WITH THE KID - SWEAR TO TELL THE TRUTH

THESE COTTON PICKIN' BLUES - OH MAMA* - APACHE WAR DANCE - THIS LITTLE VOICE**

Side B: WILL MY MAN BE HOME TONIGHT* - BLUE GUITAR - OFF THE HOOK (By Big Moose)

LOTTA LOVING** - ROCKIN' WILD - THE LEADING BRAND

grading

RECORD EX but (please, read above description)

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

The slide guitar wizard's immaculate fretwork was never captured more imaginatively than during his early-'60s stay with Mel London's Age/Chief labels. 21 fascinating tracks from that period include Hooker's savage instrumentals "Blue Guitar," "Off the Hook," "The Leading Brand," along with tracks by A.C. Reed, Lillian Offitt, and Harold Tidwell that cast Hooker as a standout sideman...(AllMusic)