Four Classic Albums (Lightnin' And The Blues / Country Blues / Lightnin' In New York / Mojo Hand)
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Lightnin' Hopkins
Four Classic Albums (Lightnin' And The Blues / Country Blues / Lightnin' In New York / Mojo Hand)
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Release Date: Friday 27 January 2017
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Born in Texas in 1912, Sam Lightnin' Hopkins began his musical journey into the blues at the age of 8 when he met the legendary and mysterious Blues man, Blind Lemon Jefferson at a local church social. So began a kind of informal apprenticeship when Hopkins accompanied Jefferson to many of his musical engagements soaking up as much as he could from the great man. By his teens he had hooked up with his cousin, another blues man, Texas Alexander with whom he travelled and worked until being discovered in 1946. Re-christened Lightnin' in partnership with pianist Wilson Smith, re-christened Thunder, the pair became Aladdin recording artists. The career of Lightnin' Hopkins then followed much the same path as many fellow blues men. Success of sorts in the 1940's and 1950's before then slipping into obscurity only to be re-discovered during the Blues/Folk revival in the 1960's. He would go on to become the most recorded bluesman in history and was voted in Rolling Stone magazine Top 100, as the 71st greatest guitarist of all time.
Tracks:
CD1
1. Nothin' But The Blues (Lightnin' And The Blues)
2. Don't Think You're Pretty (Lightnin' And The Blues)
3. Lightnin's Boogie (Lightnin' And The Blues)
4. Life I Used To Live (Lightnin' And The Blues)
5. Sick Feelin' Blues (Lightnin' And The Blues)
6. Evil Hearted Woman (Lightnin' And The Blues)
7. Blues For My Cookie (Lightnin' And The Blues)
8. Sittin' Down Thinkin' (Lightnin' And The Blues)
9. My Baby's Gone (Lightnin' And The Blues)
10. Lonesome In Your House (Lightnin' And The Blues)
11. Lightnin's Special (Lightnin' And The Blues)
12. My Little Kewpie Doll (Lightnin' And The Blues)
13. Long Time (Country Blues)
14. Rainy Day Blues (Country Blues)
15. Baby! (Country Blues)
16. Long Gone Like A Turkey Thru The Corn (Country Blues)
17. Prison Blues Come Down On Me (Country Blues)
18. Backwater Blues (This Mean Old Twister) (Country Blues)
19. Gonna Pull A Party (Country Blues)
20. Bluebird, Bluebird (Country Blues)
21. See See Rider (Country Blues)
22. Worrying My Mind (Country Blues)
23. 'Till The Gin Gets Here (Country Blues)
24. Bunion Stew (Country Blues)
25. You Got To Work To Get You Pay (Country Blues)
26. Go Down Old Hannah (Country Blues)
27. Hear My Black Dog Bark (Country Blues)
CD2
1. Take It Easy (Lightnin' In New York)
2. Mighty Crazy (Lightnin' In New York)
3. Your Own Fault, Baby, To Treat Me The Way You Do (Lightnin' In New York)
4. I've Had My Fun If I Don't Get Well No More (Lightnin' In New York)
5. The Trouble Blues (Lightnin' In New York)
6. Lightnin's Piano Boogie (Lightnin' In New York)
7. Wonder Why (Lightnin' In New York)
8. Mister Charlie (Lightnin' In New York)
9. Mojo Hand (Mojo Hand)
10. Coffee For Mama (Mojo Hand)
11. Awful Dream (Mojo Hand)
12. Black Mare Trot (Mojo Hand)
13. Have You Ever Loved A Woman (Mojo Hand)
14. Glory Bee (Mojo Hand)
15. Sometimes She Will (Mojo Hand)
16. Shine On, Moon! (Mojo Hand)
17. Santa (Mojo Hand)
