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	AC 40015-No Shoes, 1973 Listed as an Everest Reissue but I'm not sure which lp without a track listing.
Ace
45s
	NS69-Bim Bam, B.B. King/Shake Holler and Run, John Lee Hooker
LPs
	CH 37-John Lee Hooker Vol. 1, 1981 Shake Holler and Run/ Gonna Boogie/ Ride 'Till I Die/ Hobo Blues/ Half A Stranger/ Boogie Chillen// Rock House Boogie/ Playin' The Races/ Cool Little Car/ Hug And Squeeze You/ Tease Me Baby/ I'm In The Mood
	CH 259- That's My Story, 19?? Reissue of Riverside 321
	CH 282-The Folk Blues of John Lee Hooker, 19??
	CH 287-Live At Sugar Hill, 19?? Reissue of Galaxy (8)205, Live At Sugarhill
	CH 298-Live At Sugar Hill Volume 2, 19?? The entire Sugarhill session was released as a double LP, Fantasy 24706, Boogie Chillun

Advent Advent was the first to release many of John Lee's early works on LP. Taken directly from 78s in many cases this may have been the first time many had heard these tracks. The label was started by Dave Sax and Frank Scott and had a mere 4 issues. Later, Scott would revive the label in the US in 1972. The many reissues the Red Lightnin' release RL 003, No Friend Around, all actually stem from the same dub of a single copy Advent 2804. Advent had pressed less than a couple hundred copies and hadn't even made it to printing jackets when they were approached by Red Lightnin' who wanted to release the LP. Rather than obtaining the masters or stampers from Advent, RL would simply dub a copy of 2804. The Red Lightnin' and all subsequent reissues on BYG, Charly, and Happy Bird would be made from this dub which is apparently of greatly reduced sound quality from the original Advent pressing. For more information on Advent, and dozens of other labels and artists, visit Stefan Wirz' Advent page at his American Music site.
LPs
	2801-John Lee Hooker and His Guitar, 1966 Graveyard Blues/ I Love To Boogie/ Miss Sadie Mae/ Huckle Up Baby/ Canal Street Blues/ Boogie Chillun' No. 2/ My Daddy Was A Jockey// Questionnaire Blues/ Real Gone Gal/ Mean Old Train/ Catfish/ Miss Lorraine/ Talkin' Boogie/ Miss Eloise/ Burnin' Hell
	2804-No Friend Around, 196? Stomp Boogie/ Black Man Blues/ Helpless Blues/ Goin' Mad Blues/ Morning Blues/ Roll N' Roll/ No Friend Around// Low Down Midnight Boogie/ House Rent Boogie/ Wandering Blues/ Landing Blues/ My Baby's Got Somethin'/ Decoration Day Blues/ Do The Boogie The original source of the Red Lightnin' LP of the same name RL003.
	The jacket that came with this lp is similar to the black and white jackets released on the Red Lightnin' reissues of this lp. Although the RL logo is missing from the jacket it does have the RL 003 release number. The scan at far left bears a promise of a full discography not offered with the RL lp. Apparently I won't get one with this lp either as there was no discography inside.

America The session that yielded the Carson LP 3662, I Feel Good also produced a second LP that would be released on the French "America" label. Both LPs would be reissued as a set on the Festival label. (Festival 186)
45s
	17014-I Wanna Dance All Night/Baby Don't You Wanna Go, 1977
LPs
30 AM 6074-The King Of Folk Blues, 197? Reissue of Galaxy 201
30 AM 6078-The Blues 197? Reissue of Crown 5157
30-AM 6101-I Wanna Dance All Night, 1977 Hey, Baby You Look Good To Me/ I Wanna Dance All Night/ Mean Woman/ Why Put Me Down/ My Name Is Ringing// What The Matter Baby/ Baby Don't You Wanna Go/ Talk To Your Daughter/ You Move Me/ The Things I Tell You To Do

Antilles In the 1990 Dennis Hopper film "The Hot Spot" Hooker would team up with several musicians most notable among them were Taj Mahal and Miles Davis.
LPs
	AN 8755-The Hot Spot (Soundtrack), 1990 Coming To Town/ Empty Bank/ Harry's Philosophy/ Dolly's Arrival/ Harry and Dolly/ Sawmill/ Bank Robbery// Moanin'/ Gloria's Story/ Harry Sets Up Sutton/ Murder/ Blackmail/ End Credits
Apolo
	6009-Jazz & Blues Vol. 9, 1982 Tracks?
	6020-Jazz & Blues Vol. 20, 1982 Tracks?
Ariola-MCA
	H-204429-It Serves You Right To Suffer, 1982 Reissue of Impulse 9103

Atlantic (U. K.)(Special, "K", AET) Atlantic, parent company of the ATCO label released several LPs, EPs and 45s through their European distributors.
EPs
	AET 6010-John Lee Hooker, 1965 Wobbling Baby/ You Lost A Good Man// My Baby Don't Love Me/ Guitar Lovin' Man
LPs
	590 003-Drifting Blues, 1967 (Atlantic Special) Reissue of ATCO 151
	40-405-Detroit Special, 197? (Atlantic K) Reissue of Atlantic 7228
	40-507-Don't Turn Me From Your Door, 197? Reissue of ATCO 151

Atlantic (France)
EPs
	212 079 M-Wobbling Baby, 197? Wobbling Baby/ You Lost A Good Man// My Baby Don't Love Me/ Guitar Lovin' Man
LPs
	432 065-Don't Turn Me From Your Door,196? Reissue of ATCO 151 There are later french issues of this lp dating from 1973. This one, however appears much earlier, possibly dating from 1967 when ATCO reissued the lp in stereo in the US.
Auvi
	L7CH30-No Friend Around, 1980 Spanish pressing of the Charly reissue. Charly 30170
	L4 377-This Is Hip, 1982 Reissue of Charly 1004

Bellaphon For reasons I don't quite understand Belllaphon of Germany put out two-two record sets of nearly the same material under different titles. While the order differs, most of the tracks are the same.
LPs
BL 15165-The Best Of John Lee Hooker, 1976 Boom Boom/ Dimples/ Send Me Your Pillow/ Baby Lee/ Whistling and Moaning/ Anybody Seen My Baby// Old Time Shimmy/ I'm In the Mood/ Hobo Blues/ Weeping Willow/ Dusty Road/ House Rent Boogie
BLS 5523 -Dusty Road, 198? Send Me Your Pillow/ Old Time Shimmy/ Dimples/ I'm So Excited/ Baby Lee// Boom Boom/ No Shoes/ Dusty Road/ Onions/ Good Rockin' Mama// Boogie Chillen/ I'm In The Mood/ Crawling King Snake/ Queen Bee/ Hobo Blues/ Weeping Willow// Cold Chills/ Hoogie Boogie/ Whistling and Moaning/ Sally Mae/ House Rent Boogie/ Anybody Seen My Baby
BLS 5577-Portrait-John Lee Hooker, 198? Boom Boom/ Dimples/ Send Me Your Pillow/ Baby Lee/ Whistling And Moaning// Hoogie Boogie/ Anybody Seen My Baby/ Hobo Blues/ Weeping Willow// House Rent Boogie/ Boogie Chilen/ I'm In The Mood/ Dusty Road/ Cold Chills/ I'm So Excited/ No Shoes/ Old Time Shimmy/ Onions/ Good Rockin' Mama

BGO BGO had contracted with ABC in the US to release several of Hooker's LPs released on ABC and the subsidiary Bluesway Label.
LPs
	LP 39-Live At The Cafe Au-Go-Go Reissue of Bluesway 6002
	LP 40-Simply The Truth Reissue of Bluesway 6023
	LP 70-Endless Boogie Reissue of ABC 720
	LP 122-Urban Blues Reissue of Bluesway 6012

Black and Blue Taken from a session in Pau, France in November of 1969 this LP features the same personnel as the Carson LP 3662 and The America LP 6101. Later, these and other tracks from the same session would be reissued by Black and Blue, but only on CD. I have found no other vinyl issues of these tracks.
LPs
	333 023-Get Back Home In The USA, 19?? Get Back Home In The U.S.A./ TB is Killing Me/ Cold Chills/ I Had a Dream Last Night/ Love Affair/ Little Rain/ When My First Wife Left Me/ Big Boss Lady/ Back to Your Mother/ Boogie Chillen

Blue City

LPs

2652211-16 Greatest Hits-198?, German Issue?

Brunswick The Brunswick label is most notable for it's release of material from the American Folk Blues Festival that toured Europe during the 60s. There was both a John Lee Hooker single and EP released by the label to complement the various artists LPs.
EPs
	10.644-The American Folk Blues Festival, John Lee Hooker, Shake It Baby, 19?? Shake It Baby/ Hey Baby// I'm Nervous/ I Wanna See My Baby
LPs
	9012-The Original American Folk Blues Festival, 196?

Bulldog
LPs
	BDL 1011-Blues Before Sunrise, 198? Little Wheel/ I'm In The Mood/ Hobo Blues/ Crawling King Snake/ Blues Before Sunrise// Want Ad Blues/ My First Wife Left Me/ Wednesday Evening Blues/ Maudie/ Time Is Marching

BYG Named for it's founders Jacques Bisceglia, Jean-Luc Young & Jean Georgakarakos, BYG was started in the late 60s. Jean-Luc Young would later help to co-found Charly Records in the UK along with Joop Visser.
LPs
	529 008-Folk Blues, 19?? Reissue of Crown 5232 Would be reissued under Pop Blues Series below.
	529 508-Pop Blues Vol. 8-John Lee Hooker, Folk Blues, 19?? Reissue of Crown 5232
	529 511-Pop Blues Vol. 11No Friend Around, 19?? Reissue of Red Lightnin' RL 003
	58017-On The Road, 19??

Calumet Calumet released straight reissues of the Carson LP and Single even using the same release numbers and cover art.

	1662-I Feel Good/Daizie Mae, 197?
LPs
	3662-I Feel Good, 197? Reissue of Carson 3662

Carrere Info
LPs
	97110-Les Rois Du Blues, 19??

Carson Carson in France was the first to release material from a 1969 session in Paris that would be released in the US as Jewel 5005
45s
	1662-I Feel Good/Daize Mae, 1969
LPs
3662-I Feel Good, 1969
Chameleon Pressed by Festival records in Australia, these two 45's were most likely released in conjunction with The Healer, also released in the US on Chameleon.
45s
	K 10112-The Healer/ My Dream, 1989
	K 10137-I'm In The Mood/No Substitute, 1989

Charly In 1980 Charly records in the UK would gain access the the Vee Jay vaults releasing several LPs in it's R&B series. In some cases this would be the first ever release of material recorded nearly 25 years earlier.

EPs
		CTD 106-Dimples// Boom Boom/ Onions, 1980
LPs
	30170-No Friend Around, 1979 Reissue of Red Lightnin' RL 003
	CRB 1004-This Is Hip, 1980 Dimples/ I Love You Honey/ I'm In The Mood/ Time Is Marching/ Big Legs, Tight Skirt/ Onions/ Take Me As I Am/ Boom Boom// This Is Hip/ Boogie Chillun/ Crawlin' King Snake/ Blues Before Sunrise/ Will The Circle Be Unbroken/ House Rent Boogie/ It Serves Me Right To Suffer/ Bottle Up And Go
	CRB 1014-Everybody Rockin', 1981 Every Night/ Trouble Blues/ The Road Is So Rough/ I'm So Excited/ Your Baby Ain't Sweet Like Mine/ Unfriendly Woman/ I'm Goin' Upstairs/ Everybody Rockin'// I'm Mad Again/ Hard Headed Woman/ Crawlin' Black Spider/ Little Wheel/ You've Taken My Woman/ Maudie/ I'm So Worried Baby/ Want-Ad Blues
	CRB 1029-Moanin' The Blues, 1981 This LP contains an entire side (side 1) of tracks that had sat in the Vee Jay Vaults until they would be released by Charly. Drive Me Away/ Wrong Doin' Woman/ She Left Me One Wednesday/ Nightmare/ Sally Mae/ Love Me All The Time/ Moanin' Blues/ Your Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone// Mama, You Got A Daughter/ Wheel and Deal/ Tennessee Blues/ Baby Lee/ Stop Talking/ I See You When You're Weak/ Little Fine Woman/ Mambo Chillun
	CRB 1067-Chicago Blues Masters (VA), 1981
	CRB 1081-Solid Sender, 1981 You Can Lead Me Baby/ Hobo Blues/ No Shoes/ I Wanna Walk/ Canal Street Blues/ Run On/ I'm A Stranger/ Whiskey and Wimmen// Solid Sender/ Sunny Land/ Goin' To California/ I Can't Believe/ I'll Know Tonight/ Dusty Road/ Left My Baby/ Sadie Mae
Checker This odd reissue seems to have been something of a budget release with the phrase "Super Mid Price" on the back of the jacket. It is difficult to ascertain whether this Checker label has any relation to the Chess subsidiary in the US or was simply leasing Chess material.
LPs
	6467 305-Mad Man Blues, 1970 This lp seems to pre-date the 1973 2lp release on Chess 60011. Let's Go Out Tonight/ Please Don't Go/ Down At The Landing/ Sugar Mama/ Leave My Wife Alone/ High Priced Woman// Walkin' The Boogie/ You Know I Know/ Hey Boogie/ Ground Hog Blues/ Love Blues/ Mad Man Blues

Chess (International) While Chess Record's relationships with Pye International in the UK and P-Vine in Japan are well documented I have little information on Chess distribution in other countries. The UK releases continued to be distributed by Pye but would carry the Chess logo beginning in 1965 due in part to Marshall Chess' campaign to get the label more involved in what he saw as a lucrative overseas market. While most of these issues are UK releases other countries pop up from time to time and I will continue to list them here along with a note on country of origin.
45s
	GG 28-Birmingham Blues/ I'm Leaving (Canadian Issue) 197? Shortly after GRT bought out Chess Records they released this series of re-issues titled "Golden Greats".
	169 523-Real Folk Blues Vol. 4 19?? One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer/ Stella Mae This 45 with Picture Sleeve is of French origin. The label design is consistent with late 60's Chess labels in the US.
EPs
	CRE 6000-Down At The Landing, 1965
	CRE 6007-Walkin' The Boogie, 1965 Walkin' The Boogie/ It's My Own Fault// High Priced Woman/ Ground Hog Blues -UK Pressing
	CRE 6014-The Journey, 1965
	CRE 6021-Real Folk Blues Vol 3, 1966 Worried Life Blues/ Lonely Boy Boogie// I Don't Want Your Money/ Apologize
LPs
	CRL 4500-John Lee Hooker Plays and Sings The Blues Reissue of Chess LP 1454-UK Pressing
	CRL 4527 The Real Folk Blues, 19?? Reissue of Chess 1508
	CXMD 4005-John Lee Hooker, 198? Issued in the UK the "Chess Masters" series of double LPs also issued releases of Muddy Waters, Sonny Boy Williamson and Howlin' Wolf. Walkin The Boogie/ Love Blues/ Union Station Blues/ It's My Own Fault/ Leave My Wife Alone/ Ramblin' By Myself// Sugar Mama/ Down At The Landing/ Louise/ Ground Hog Blues/ High Priced Woman/ Women and Money// The Journey/ I Don't Want Your Money/ Hey, Baby/ Mad Man Blues/ Blue Bird/ Worried Life Blues// Apologize/ Lonely Boy Boogie/ Please Don't Go/ Dreamin' Blues/ Hey Boogie/ Just Me and My Telephone

Cleo
LPs
	231 283-Blues Before Sunrise, 19?? Little Wheel/ I'm In The Mood/ Hobo Blues/ Crawling King Snake/ Blues Before Sunrise// Want Ad Blues/ My First Wife Left Me/ Wednesday Evening Blues/ Maudie/ Time Is Marching
Concert Hall It appears this is yet another reissue of No Friend Around, Advent 2804.
LPs
	J-1347-John Lee Hooker, 197? Subtitled "Recordings That Made Jazz History"

Deja Vu Italian Pressed compilation of Vee Jay sides.
LPs
2033-The Collection, 20 Blues Greats, 19?? Dimples/I'm In The Mood/ Hobo Blues/ Boogie Chillen/ Boom Boom/ Blues Before Sunrise/ Time Is Marching/ Tupelo/ Little Wheel/ Shake Holler and Run// Want Ad Blues/ Crawling King Snake/ Whiskey and Wimmen/ Tease Me Baby/ Wednesday Evening Blues/ My First Wife Left Me/ Maudie/ No Shoes/ I Love You Honey/ Rock House Boogie

Demon This LP contains Besman recorded tracks mainly from the late 40s and early 50s. Released in 1990 it is the latest issue I have seen still giving writing/arranging credit to Besman.
LPs
	Fiend 154-The Detroit Lion, 1990 Reissue of Sensation LP DZL 042, John Lee Hooker's 40th Anniversary Album.
Discophon
EPs
	27 .385-1969? Poor Me/ I Want To Shout// I Want To Hug You/ Birmingham Blues-As the jacket implies, these are re-issues of Vee Jay Material
LPs
	S 4339-Alone, 1972 Reissue of Specialty 2125
	S 4343-I'm John Lee Hooker (Blues and Gospel Train No1.), 1969 Reissue of Vee Jay 1007 I have to question the date on this lp as it has a later number than the 1972 release alone.

DJM
LPs
	28026-Dimples, 1977 Unfriendly Woman/ Wheel and Deal/ Mambo Chillun/ Time is Marching/ I'm So Worried Baby/ Baby Lee/ Dimples/ Every Night/ The Road Is So Rough/ Trouble Blues/ Stop Talking/ Everybody Rockin/ I'm So Excited/ I See You When You're Weak/ Crawlin Black Spider/ Little Wheel/ Little Fine Woman/ Rosie Mae/ You Can Lead Me Baby/ I Love You Honey/ You've Taken My Woman -Vee Jay sides.
Doblon
	50.1401-Original Blues R&B vol. 2, 1982 Tracks?

Earmark One of many recent 180 gram "Audiophile" issues to come out of Italy.
LPs
	44004-Boogie Chillen, 2003 Boogie Chillen/ Sally Mae/ Drifting From Door To Door/ Crawlin' King Snake/ Hobo Blues/ Whistlin' and Moanin' Blues/ Hoogie Boogie// Burnin' Hell/ Miss Sadie Mae/ Weeping Willow/ Low Down Midnite Boogie/ Goin' Mad Blues/ Helpless Blues/ Landing Blues -Modern Sides.

Ember
EPs
		EP 4561-Thinking Blues, 1964 Thinking Blues/ Late Last Night// Wandering Blues/ Don't You Remember Me
LPs Ember 3371 was issued in both label designs shown below.

	3356-John Lee Hooker Sings Blues, 1964 Reissue of King 727 (Minus Poor Joe, Stomp Boogie, Who's Been Jivin' You & Race Track)
	3371-Driftin' Thru The Blues, 1964 Reissue of Crown 5232 Would be issued again in the US as United 7710 in 1969 under the same title with similar artwork to the Ember release.

EMI-America I don't have much information on the German re-issue of Liberty record's Hooker and Heat. There is a date of 1979 and a credit to United Artists on the label however, the design looks later maybe mid 80s and U/A had never released this material.
	164-82 766/67, 1979? Reissue of Liberty 35002, Hooker 'n Heat

Exit (Spain)

45s

2548-Boogie Chillen/ I'm In The Mood, 1969

Explosive Yet another reissue of the Verve release, "....and Seven Nights". This appears to have been issued some time in the early 70s.
	EXPLOSIVE 538.003-John Lee Hooker, 197? Reissue of Verve 3003

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