Performance
Lefty Bates
Lefty Bates is credited on 189 releases across 64 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1957–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
189
Pressings credited
64
Albums
8
Decades active
59
In collections
Credited work
189 releases · 64 albums · active 1957–2024
- Performance · 246
Studios: Universal Recording Studio · Newport Folk Festival
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Burnin'
1962
Left My Blues In San Francisco
1968
Travelin'
1960
I'm John Lee Hooker
1959
Jimmy Reed At Carnegie Hall / The Best Of Jimmy Reed
1961
Rockin' With Reed
1959
First Time I Met The Blues 1958-1963 Recordings
2015
John Lee Hooker
1968
Big Boss Man
1968
Whiskey & Wimmen (John Lee Hooker's Finest)
2017
Blues Rarities - Rare And Unissued Recordings
1982
Everybody Rockin'
1981
The New Jimmy Reed Album
1967
The Folk Lore Of John Lee Hooker
1961
Found Love
1960
Frequent collaborators
- John Lee Hooker
- Jimmy Reed
- Various
- Buddy Guy
- Horace M. Palm
- Lefty Bates And His Band
- Pee Wee Crayton
- The Spaniels
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