JOHN LEE HOOKER - The Real Folk Blues (Chess Acoustic Sounds Series) Format:180g Black Vinyl LP and yet continue to advance

and yet continue to advance into new territory

and rhythm section typical of Verve’s late-1960s productions

on vinyl for Record Store Day 2022

2LP - Standard Limited Edition 'Marshmallow' Colour Vinyl

framed with a deliberate red-light nod to 1974

JOHN LEE HOOKER - The Real Folk Blues (Chess Acoustic Sounds Series) Format:180g Black Vinyl LP and yet continue to advanceThe 1966 John Lee Hooker album Real Folk Blues is the latest of several Chess Records' Real Folk Blues albums to be reissued for 2026 as part of the Chess Records 75 Series from Chess Records and Acoustic Sounds. Whereas the rest of the LPs in the series by Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and others were compilations of older recordings, the Hooker album was newly recorded in May of 1966 in Chicago. Hooker was his inimitable and spontaneous self, reworking