JOHN LEE HOOKER - The Real Folk Blues (Chess Acoustic Sounds Series) Format:180g Black Vinyl LP (UK/Ireland): Limited to 5000 copies

(UK/Ireland): Limited to 5000 copies

Phil Spector's Teddy Bears collaborator

starting with the release of their debut album Mondays

Not merely re-issue something for the sake of an anniversary or racking up a catalogue favourite - but finding new treasures and highlighting what made it special in the first place

2LP - Standard Limited Edition 'Marshmallow' Colour Vinyl

JOHN LEE HOOKER - The Real Folk Blues (Chess Acoustic Sounds Series) Format:180g Black Vinyl LP (UK/Ireland): Limited to 5000 copiesThe 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