I got this recording home Friday Afternoon, it is Monday Afternoon now, and I haven't been able to get it out of the CD player. This is 1949. Johhnie Lee is young. It is the moment just before big initial hits《Boogie Chillen》and《Boom Boom Boom》hit the market. We're not in a recording studio. We're in the living room of a Detroit blues lover who had him over for dinner and a party. Instead of the repertoire record sellers demand so they could claim each tune for their thieving selves, we have Hooker, free, requested not to play that music. He's playing in the African American tradition not competing for bucks with other R & B stars.