His country blues playing and singing soon became popular around the city, as over the next few years Lee monopolized house parties and fish suppers.
Two of the tracks, "Slappin' The Boogie" and "In My Father's House", were unreleased at the time, although both were later issued on a compilation album, Devil's Jump : Important Indie Label Blues 1946-1957 (2013).
[1] He was later sought out by the blues researcher, Gayle Dean Wardlow, who finally located Lee in 1973, after a hunt lasting three years.
In 1975, Wardlow wrote an article about the search processes in the Blues Unlimited magazine, titled "Down at the Depot: The Story of John Lee".
[7] Three of the tracks produced by Michelson, "You Know You Didn't Want Me", the instrumental "Lonesome Blues", and "Dago Hill", featured Lee playing the piano rather than the guitar.
[9] The collection contained largely Lee's own work, plus a version of a song published in 1922, "Nobody's Business What I Do", written by Porter Grainger and Everett Robbins.