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27 de dic. de 2023 · Lightnin' Hopkins at the New Orleans Jazz festival, 1978. "He could go from acoustic guitar to electric guitar or from playing by himself to playing with a band," said Johny Winter. "Lightnin' was a real blues guy." (Image credit: David Redferns/Getty Images)
Lightnin' Hopkins chronology; California Mudslide (and Earthquake) (1969) Lightnin'! (1969) In the Key of Lightnin' (2002) CD Reissue Cover; Lightnin'! is an album by the blues musician Lightnin' Hopkins recorded in California in 1969 and released on the Poppy label as a double LP.
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…
1 de oct. de 1995 · Sam (Lightnin’) Hopkins, blues singer and guitarist, was born in Centerville, Texas, on March 15, probably in 1911. Though some sources give his year of birth as 1912, his Social Security application listed the year as 1911. He was the son of Abe and Frances (Sims) Hopkins. After his father died in 1915, the family (Sam, his mother and five ...
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.
