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Sugar Hill Discography

This is a discography of albums recorded at the Sugar Hill in San Francisco.

Sugar Hill was a blues and jazz club opened by Barbabra Dane on Broadway in San Francisco sometime in the 1950's.

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1962

Live at Sugar Hill, Sonny Terry And Brownie McGhee, 1962

Recorded live at Sugar Hill in 1962.

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Live at Sugar Hill, John Lee Hooker, 1962

Recorded live at Sugar Hill in 1962. Originally released in France. Released on LP in US in 1968.

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Live at Sugar Hill, Carmen McRae, 1963

Recorded live at Sugar Hill in 1962.

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Boogie Chillun, John Lee Hooker, 1972

Recorded live at Sugar Hill in 1962. This double LP release comprises the tracks from the Live At Sugar Hill album listed above plus 10 more tracks from the same series of performances.

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Live At Sugar Hill, John Lee Hooker, 1990

Recorded live at Sugar Hill in 1962. This Ace CD release comprises 19 of the 20 tracks released on the Boogie Chillun album. (Ace also released this material as two separate volumes each with 10 tracks)

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Live At Sugar Hill, Vol. 2, John Lee Hooker, 2002

Recorded live at Sugar Hill in 1962. This Fantasy CD release comprises 19 previously unreleased tracks from the same 1962 performances that provided the tracks for the albums listed above.

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Additional information

The Sugar Hill club is celebrated in a song by Lonnie Johnson, Fine Booze and Heavy Dues. The song includes the following lyrics;
I've got the blues for San Francisco, it's where I long to be
I've got the blues for San Francisco, it's where I long to be
There's a club they call Sugar Hill, and that's where I long to be

Everybody starts to jumpin', when the clock is strikin' nine
Yes the house starts rockin', when the clock is strikin' nine
There's so many fine chicks walk in the door, make a single man lose his mind

The name is Sugar Hill Club, it's the home of the natural blues
Name is the Sugar Hill Club, the home of the natural blues
You get nothing but big legged women and the fine booze, oh Jack and it's heavy dues




Last updated October 2019