Lightning Hopkins Sings the Blues
1961 studio album by Lightnin' Hopkins
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Studio album by Lightnin' Hopkins | ||||
Released | 1961 | |||
Recorded | October 1947–1951 | |||
Studio | Gold Star (Houston, Texas) | |||
Genre | Blues | |||
Length | 25:50 | |||
Label | Crown CLP-5224 | |||
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Lightning Hopkins Sings the Blues, also released as Original Folk Blues, is a 12-inch LP album by blues musician Lightnin' Hopkins collecting tracks recorded between 1947 and 1951 that were originally released as 10-inch 78rpm records on the RPM label.[2][3][4] The album was released on the Mainstream Records low budget, Crown subsidiary and was an early 12-inch LP collections of Lightnin' Hopkins material recorded at Gold Star Studios to be released. In 1999 a double CD collection of Jake Head Boogie was released containing all of the Hopkins recordings released by the RPM label along with several previously unreleased recordings.
Track listing
All compositions by Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins
- "Just Sittin' Down Thinkin'" – 2:33
- "Jake Head Boogie" – 2:53
- "Lonesome Dog Blues" – 2:38
- "Tell Me Pretty Mama" – 3:03
- "Last Affair" – 2:55
- "Don't Keep My Baby Long" – 2:15
- "Santa Fe Blues" – 2:23
- "Give Me Back That Wig" – 1:56
- "Someday" – 2:38
- "Ain't It Lonesome" – 2:36
Personnel
- Lightnin' Hopkins – guitar, vocals
References
- ^ Lightnin' Hopkins: Sings the Blues – Listing at AllMusic. Retrieved November 22, 2018.
- ^ Both Sides Now: Crown Album Discography, Part 3: CLP-5201 to CLP-5299/CST-221 to CST-299 (1961–1963) accessed November 22, 2018
- ^ Wirz' American Music: Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins discography accessed November 22, 2018
- ^ O'Brien, T. J. Lightnin' Album of the Week: Week 23 February 5, 2011 accessed November 22, 2018
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- Autobiography in Blues (1960)
- Down South Summit Meetin' (1960)
- Last Night Blues (1961)
- Lightnin' (1961)
- Lightnin' in New York (1961)
- Blues in My Bottle (1961)
- Mojo Hand (1962)
- Lightnin' Sam Hopkins (1962)
- Walkin' This Road by Myself (1962)
- Lightnin' and Co. (1962)
- Lightnin' Strikes (1962)
- Blues Hoot (1963)
- Smokes Like Lightning (1963)
- Goin' Away (1963)
- Hootin' the Blues (1964)
- Down Home Blues (1964)
- Soul Blues (1965)
- My Life in the Blues (1965)
- The King of the Blues (1965)
- Lightning Hopkins with His Brothers Joel and John Henry / with Barbara Dane (1966)
- Lightnin' Strikes (1966)
- Blue Lightnin' (1967)
- Something Blue (1967)
- Texas Blues Man (1968)
- Free Form Patterns (1968)
- Talkin' Some Sense (1968)
- The Great Electric Show and Dance (1969)
- California Mudslide (and Earthquake) (1969)
- Lightnin'! (1969)
- Lightning Hopkins in Berkeley (1972)
- The Swarthmore Concert (1993)
- Live at Newport (2002)
- In the Key of Lightnin' (2002)
- Lightnin' Hopkins Strums the Blues (1958)
- Last of the Great Blues Singers (1960)
- Lightnin' and the Blues (1960)
- Lightning Hopkins Sings the Blues (1961)
- Early Recordings (1965)
- Early Recordings Vol. 2 (1971)
- Po' Lightnin' (1983)
- Mojo Hand: The Life and Music of Lightnin' Hopkins