John Lee Hooker – It Serve You Right To Suffer (New Vinyl) (Verve Acoustic Sounds Series)

NEW LP

New sealed copy. 2025 Verve Acoustic Sounds Series reissue on 180 gram vinyl. Lacquer cut by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab. Pressed at Quality Records Pressings. Jacket printed by Stoughton Printing Co.

It Serve You Right to Suffer (later reissued as It Serves You Right to Suffer) is a 1966 album by blues legend John Lee Hooker, released on Impulse! Records (catalog no. 9103). It marked a rare venture into blues for the jazz-focused label and was part of its brief foray into folk music, borrowing the slogan, “The new wave of folk is on Impulse!”

Hooker, signed to Impulse!’s parent company ABC Records, recorded his only album for the label under producer Bob Thiele. Thiele assembled a group of seasoned jazz musicians to back Hooker, creating an unusual crossover of styles. The album features a mix of newly recorded originals and reinterpretations of Hooker’s earlier material, along with a cover of Barrett Strong’s 1959 Motown hit “Money (That’s What I Want).”

TRACKLIST:

A1        Shake It Baby    
A2        Country Boy    
A3        Bottle Up And Go    
A4        You're Wrong    
B1        Sugar Mama    
B2        Decoration Day    
B3        Money
B4        It Serves You Right To Suffer