A 1964 mono first pressing of John Lee Hooker’s House of the Blues on Pye Records, from the legendary collection of Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman, with his handwritten notations with the recording dates of each song on the back cover.  Hooker was one of the Rolling Stones greatest early influences.

Bill Wyman is legendary as a musician, a blues historian, an author and for his world-class collection of Rolling Stones memorabilia.  This album was sold by him at the Bill Wyman and his Rolling Stones Archive sale at Julien’s Auctions (if you haven’t already seen the Wyman documentary The Quiet One, we enthusiastically recommend it.)

As the accompanying Juliens descriptive card notes, “The Rolling Stones always list John Lee Hooker among the artists who had the greatest influence on their music at the beginning of their career.  The Stones did live cover versions of “Crawling King Snake” and “Dimples” during some of their earliest performances and they had the honor of performing “Boogie Chillen” live on stage with Hooker during their 1989 Steel Wheels tour stop in Atlantic City.”

The laminated front cover is in Near Mint condition; we’d grade the back cover as EX due to some age related toning.  The shiny disc is in NM/EX condition.

With the original auction house descriptive card and hang tag, and Recordmecca’s written lifetime guarantee of authenticity, signed by Recordmecca’s Jeff Gold, who has consulted for Bill Wyman.

An extraordinary opportunity to own a classic John Lee Hooker album from the collection of a Rolling Stone.

Read Recordmecca owner Jeff Gold’s blog post on collecting artist-owned records here.