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The Best Of Lightnin' Hopkins (Prestige) (CD)

By: Lightnin' Hopkins (Artist)

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DISC 1 for The Best Of Lightnin' Hopkins (Prestige) (CD) Album By Lightnin' Hopkins (Artist)
1   Back To New Orleans
2   Automobile Blues
3   Pneumonia Blues
4   Mojo Hand
5   Black Cadillac
6   You Is One Black Rat
7   Last Night Blues
8   Blues In The Bottle
9   Walkin' This Road By Myself
10   Got To Move Your Baby
11   Goin' Away
12   Happy Blues For John Glenn
13   Mean Old Frisco
14   Katie Mae
15   I'm A Crawling Black Snake
16   Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
 

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Personnel: Lightnin' Hopkins (vocals, guitar); Billy Bizor (vocals, harmonica); Buster Pickens (piano); Leonard Gaskin, Donald Cooks (double bass); Belton Evans, Spider Kilpatrick, Herbie Lovelle (drums).

Liner Note Author: Lee Hildebrand.

Recording information: 1960 - 1964.

Many consider Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins to be the last in a long line of true bluesmen. Hopkins is captured here in the early 1960s, during a period of renewed interest in his work. For the most part, Hopkins rejected the cosmopolitan style of blues. Certainly, this collection of tunes illustrates the blues legend's interest in older, rural styles like those developed by Blind Lemon Jefferson.

"Blues in the Bottle," from 1961, best exemplifies Hopkins's connection to early blues. On this tune, Hopkins sings about a cheating lover, but more importantly, he illuminates the harsh conditions of sharecropping and life on a cotton plantation. Moreover, his reworking of this traditional song also shows the strength of his guitar playing. Hopkins's strumming is colorful yet raw, and his meticulous leads serve as the perfect foil to his laid-back singing style. The real anomaly on this disc is the temporal piece "Happy Blues for John Glenn." This humorous lyric recounts the astronaut's orbit around the earth, as well as eating lunch in space and receiving lots of money. It's a charming Hopkins vocal improvisation, and highlights the late singer's unquestionable charisma.

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