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Autobiography In Blues (CD)

By: Lightnin' Hopkins (Artist)
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DISC 1 for Autobiography In Blues (CD) Album By Lightnin' Hopkins (Artist)
1   In The Evening The Sun Is Going Down
2   Trouble In Mind
3   Mama And Papa Hopkins
4   Foot Race Is On, The
5   That Gambling Life
6   When The Saints Go Marching In
7   Get Off My Toe
8   75 Highway
9   Bottle Up And Go
10   Short Haired Woman
11   So Long Baby
12   Sante Fe Blues
 
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Down Beat (10/96, p.60) - 4 Stars - Very Good - "Texan Sam `Lightnin'' Hopkins on his own, super as usual. Hopkins was one of the great tale-spinners in the music, interjecting the little speeches into his songs that turned them into talking blues. Absolutely marvelous guitar..."
Dirty Linen (6-7/96, p.73) - "...capture the warmth, idiosyncrasy, and instrumental technique that characterized this remarkable Texas bluesman..."
Sing Out! (4-5-6/96, pp.144-145) - "...Hopkins is at the top of his form throughout, which is to say that this is as good as postwar acoustic blues got....among the essential discs for any serious blues collection."

Title Note

Solo performer: Lightnin' Hopkins (vocals, guitar).

Recorded in 1959. Includes original release liner notes by Mark McCormick.

Hopkins had been a prolific recording artist in the decade following his first sessions in 1948. His stark, functional guitar style and rich Texas drawl made his work instantly recognizable. The inheritor of a blues tradition that went back to Blind Lemon Jefferson and Texas Alexander, he was an idiosyncratic musician, at his best when playing alone. His predecessors' work was reflected in his first album session, recorded by Sam Charters in January 1959. Not having recorded commercially for several years, Lightnin' was in serious mood, resulting in a set of masterful performances that carried more weight than his later, frequently arbitrary sessions. Later CD reissues have surpassed this work, simply by having more tracks.

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