The King of the Blues
1965 studio album by Lightnin' Hopkins
The King of the Blues | ||||
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Studio album by Lightnin' Hopkins | ||||
Released | 1965 | |||
Recorded | December 1964 | |||
Studio | Houston, Texas | |||
Genre | Blues | |||
Length | 35:30 | |||
Label | Pickwick/33 PC-3013 | |||
Lightnin' Hopkins chronology | ||||
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The King of the Blues is an album by blues musician Lightnin' Hopkins recorded in Texas in late 1964 and released on the Pickwick/33 label.[1][2] The album was also released as Let's Work Awhile on Blue Horizon in 1971.[3]
Track listing
All compositions by Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins
- "This Time We're Gonna Try" – 3:58
- "Christmas Time Is Coming" – 3:52
- "Come On Baby, Let's Work Awhile" – 3:13
- "The Jet" – 3:26
- "I Don't Need You Woman" – 3:50
- "I Wish I Was a Baby" – 3:36
- "The Crazy Song" – 3:06
- "Lightnin's Love" – 4:48
- "Take It If You Want To" – 2:35
- "How Have You Been?" – 4:06
Personnel
- Lightnin' Hopkins – guitar, vocals
References
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Lightnin' Hopkins
- Lightnin' Hopkins (1959)
- Country Blues (1959)
- 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