The Best Of Lightnin' Hopkins
Lightnin' Hopkins
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1. Back To New Orleans 3:24 Preview 2. Automobile Blues 4:33 Preview 3. Pneumonia Blues 3:30 Preview 4. Mojo Hand 3:02 Preview 5. Black Cadillac 3:40 Preview 6. You Is One Black Rat 2:29 Preview 7. Last Night Blues 2:50 Preview 8. Blues In The Bottle 3:11 Preview 9. Walkin' This Road By Myself 4:48 Preview 10. Got To Move Your Baby 2:30 Preview 11. Goin' Away 5:40 Preview 12. Happy Blues For John Glenn 5:18 Preview 13. Mean Old Frisco Blues 3:58 Preview 14. Katie Mae 4:02 Preview 15. I'm A Crawling Black Snake 4:50 Preview 16. Good Morning Little School Girl 3:08 Preview $8.98
The rediscovery of Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins (1912-1982) at the peak of the blues revival established this then-obscure singer and guitarist as one of the most compelling and idiosyncratic poets of the rural idiom. Whether covering warhorses or creating original narratives, playing electric or acoustic, fronting a band or by himself, in the studio or in person, Hopkins cast a spell that marked him as one of the blues immortals. His numerous Prestige/Bluesville sessions allowed Hopkins to display every facet of his art, and are surveyed here in a program highlighted by samples of his classic encounter with harmonica master Sonny Terry, several signature story lines, and his impromptu tribute to an American astronaut.
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