Lightnin' Hopkins
Lightnin' Hopkins (clear)
Texan country blues legend Lightnin Hopkins was a fingerpicking genius with a mournful voice who, after a spell in
prison, first came to prominence through recordings for Aladdin and Gold Star in the late 1940s. Somehow, by the
mid-1950s, his star had waned, but when Samuel Charters appeared at his one-room Houston apartment with a bottle of gin,
Hopkins agreed to cut ten unaccompanied songs for Folkways, the resultant Lightnin a pivotal success that reignited his
career, sparking the blues revival in the process. Full of haunting loneliness, despair, sly innuendo and doses of good
humour, this must-have LP is absolutely brilliant!
Price
Genre
Format
LP - 1 disk
Release
10-03-2023
Label
Item-nr
562418
EAN
8055515234053
Availability
Not in stock
Tracks
Title
Artist
1
PENITENTIARY BLUES
2
BAD LUCK AND TROUBLE
3
COME GO HOME WITH ME
4
TROUBLE STAY 'WAY FROM MY DOOR
5
SEE THAT MY GRAVE IS KEPT CLEAN
6
GOIN' BACK TO FLORIDA
7
REMINISCENCES OF BLIND LEMON
8
FAN IT
9
TELL ME, BABY
10
SHE'S MINE
