A 1960 promotional copy of I’m John Lee Hooker from the legendary collection of Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman, with his handwritten notations on the back cover. This classic blues album, Hooker’s debut, features his classics “Dimples,” “Boogie Chillun,” “I’m in the Mood” and “Crawlin’ King Snake.” Hooker was one of the Rolling Stones greatest […]
A copy of the Pye Records blues compilation album The Blues Volume 2, from the legendary collection of Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman. This album features nine artists, seven of whom were covered by the Stones, and/or performed with them, including Chuck Berry, John Lee Hooker, Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters, Little Walter and Bo Diddley. […]
A beautiful Near Mint/Near Mint first pressing of John Lee Hooker’s 1962 album Burnin’, on Vee Jay, with the oval logo and deep groove labels. The superb Near Mint disc looks barely played, without even a single spindle mark. There are a few very tiny incidental marks possibly from handling at the pressing plant, but […]
A beautiful NM/Mint first pressing of John Lee Hooker’s 1960 album Travelin’, on Vee Jay, with the oval logo and deep groove labels. The superb mint disc shows no sign of play, without even a single spindle mark. The cover is near mint with a very small bit of chipping to the top left corner. […]
A rare black label Chess Records first pressing of John Lee Hooker’s 1960 LP House of the Blues. The thick board cover is in Near Mint- condition, while the disc is in VG++ condition, with some minor scuffing to Side 1 and a bit of faint haze on Side 2, as often seen on Chess […]
An exceptional first pressing of John Lee Hooker’s 1960 album Sings Blues/Every One A Pearl album on King Records, with deep groove labels. The Near Mint disc is extremely clean, with only the typical scuffing present even on unplayed King pressings, and sounds fantastic. There are no spindle marks on either label–we’d doubt this has […]
A beautiful EX+/NM mono first pressing of John Lee Hooker’s 1959 album I’m John Lee Hooker on Vee-Jay Records, with the earliest deep groove maroon labels. The sleeve is in EX+ condition, with some very light wear to the edges. The disc grades Near Mint, and has probably been played no more than 2-3 times. With the original […]
A beautiful Near Mint/Near Mint 1960 pressing of John Lee Hooker’s debut album, I’m John Lee Hooker, on Vee Jay Records. This was originally released in 1959 with a maroon label; this is a circa 1960 era pressing with the black and rainbow label (the second variation with brackets.) An extraordinarily clean copy of Hooker’s […]
A Near Mint/Near Mint first pressing of the 1963 album The Big Soul of John Lee Hooker, on Vee Jay Records. This has the black and rainbow brackets label, and the Chicago address album cover. A beautiful example of a great Hooker album.
A first pressing of the 1963 album by Big Maceo Merriweather and John Lee Hooker on Detroit’s Fortune Records. This split LP features one side by each artist, and the copy here is in VG++/NM- to EX+ condition. A clean copy of a scarce LP.
A near mint first pressing of John Lee Hooker’s 1968 album Live at Sugar Hill, on Galaxy Records. The mint disc looks barely if at all played. The mint album cover is fully covered in its original shrink wrap. By far the cleanest example we’ve ever seen of this fantastic blues classic.
A beautiful 48 page program for the 1965 American Folk Blues Festival tour of Europe and the UK, featuring John Lee Hooker, Buddy Guy, J.B. Lenoir, Eddie Boyd, Shakey Horton, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Big Mama Thornton, Doctor Ross, Roosevelt Sykes and others. The beautifully designed program is filled with exquisite photographs, biographies of each artist […]
A clean first pressing of “John Lee Hooker Plays and Sings The Blues” on Chess. This first pressing, with laminated front cover and black labels, has an EX+ cover (just a bit of foxing on the back cover) and an EX/VG+(+) disc, with lots of shine. A scarce and wonderful album from a blues giant.
A handbill for Blues Scene ’69, an all-star Blues concert featuring The Groundhogs, John Lee Hooker, Jo-Ann Kelly, the Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation, and Champion Jack Dupree. The concert, at Colston Hall, Bristol, England on February 9, 1969 was presented by promoter Harold Davidson and weekly music paper Melody Maker. The handbill is in mint condition […]
A huge subway-sized concert poster advertising the February, 1968 American Folk Blues Festival concert in Frankfurt, Germany, with an all-star bill featuring John Lee Hooker, T-Bone Walker, Jimmy Reed, Big Joe Williams, Curtis Jones, Eddie Taylor and others. The poster, with artwork by the legendary German poster artist Gunther Kieser, measures 33″ x 47″, and […]