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Lightnin’ Hopkins toured and recorded prolifically until the mid 50’s when the new Chicago electric blues began to make his acoustic style appear old fashioned. In 1959, a young blues enthusiast named Sam Charters managed to track him down, and together they recorded ‘The Roots of Lightning Hopkins’ in his apartment, using a guitar he had to borrow.
Lightnin' Hopkins discography and songs: Music profile for Lightnin' Hopkins, born 15 March 1912. Genres: Acoustic Texas Blues, Blues, Electric Texas Blues. Albums include Lightnin' Hopkins, Blues in My Bottle, and Lightnin' Strikes.
15 de mar. de 2021 · Lightnin’ Hopkins’ captures this essence and in his songs. He celebrates the simple joy of being alive amidst a windfall of floating half notes and harmonica howls. With his cognizance of pain and the smiling equanimity with which he sequestered the sombre hue of sullen blue in favour of life’s spectrum of exuberant tones, ...
15 de mar. de 2022 · Here’s how it works. Watch Lightnin’ Hopkins Play “the Best Blues Performance Ever”. Remembering the influential Texas bluesman born 110 years ago today with this archive gem featuring quotes from Johnny Winter, Billy Gibbons and more. "I had the one thing you need to be a blues singer," Lightnin' used to say. "I was born with the blues."
28 de dic. de 2010 · Samuel John "Lightnin'" Hopkins (March 15, 1912 – January 30, 1982) was an American country blues singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional pianist, from Centerville, Texas. Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 71 on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. The musicologist Robert "Mack" McCormick opined that Hopkins is…
Bass – Clifford Coulter. Drums – Bruce Walters. Guitar – Jesse Edwin Davis *, John Lee Hooker, Mel Brown. Slide Guitar, Voice – Lightnin' Hopkins. 4:57. 5. It's A Sin To Be Rich, It's A Low-Down Shame To Be Poor. Bass – Clifford Coulter. Drums – Bruce Walters.
1 de ago. de 2010 · From the 1987 album Document (IRS Records)When I lay myself to sleep pray that I don't go too deepLightnin' won, Lightnin' wonBecause it's cold downGold down...
