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Blues Masters: The Very Best Of Lightnin' Hopkins (CD)

By: Lightnin' Hopkins (Artist)
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DISC 1 for Blues Masters: The Very Best Of Lightnin' Hopkins (CD) Album By Lightnin' Hopkins (Artist)
1   Katie Mae Blues
2   Shotgun Blues
3   Baby Please Don't Go
4   Automobile
5   Give Me Central 209 (Hello Central)
6   Coffee Blues
7   I'm Beggin' You
8   Contrary Mary
9   Moanin' Blues
10   Penitentary Blues
11   Fan It
12   Conversation Blues
13   Last Night Blues
14   Mighty Crazy
15   Mojo Hand
16   Baby Don't Tear My Clothes
 
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Q (4/01, p.123) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...He did sexual jealousy and economic bitterness as well as anybody. But more so than Robert Johnson...there was always ribaldry afoot..."

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Full title: Blues Masters: The Very Best Of Lightnin' Hopkins.

Personnel includes: Lightnin' Hopkins (vocals, guitar, piano); Thunder Smith (piano); Joel Hopkins (guitar); Sonny Terry (harmonica); Donald Cooks, Leonard Gaskin (bass); Belton Evans (drums).

Recorded between 1941 and 1961. Includes liner notes by David Ritz.

Digitally remastered by Bob Fisher.

A seminal figure in the history of the blues, vocalist/guitarist Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins specialized in the spare, rural sound pioneered by Robert Johnson and Blind Lemon Jefferson. Hopkins is well represented by this excellent 16-track Rhino collection, which draws from the bluesman's 1940s, '50s, and '60s material. Although the tunes occasionally feature some minimal backing, Hopkins, like many blues legends (particularly the aforementioned artists), is at his best when it's just his weathered voice and a guitar, as on the ominous "Shotgun Blues" and the pleading classic "Baby Please Don't Go." Some sessions, such as the appropriately energetic "Coffee Blues," find Hopkins trading in his acoustic guitar for an electric, but regardless of his six-string choice, he's always in prime form. Although there are other fine, and, in some cases, more comprehensive Hopkins compilations on the market, this wisely selected overview of his peak years is still one of the best available.

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