JOHN LEE HOOKER - The Real Folk Blues (Chess Acoustic Sounds Series) Format:180g Black Vinyl LP and rhythm section typical of

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

and yet continue to advance into new territory

starting with the release of their debut album Mondays

(UK/Ireland): Limited to 5000 copies

"Who's Crying Now" and "Any Way You Want It"

JOHN LEE HOOKER - The Real Folk Blues (Chess Acoustic Sounds Series) Format:180g Black Vinyl LP and rhythm section typical ofThe 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