Lightnin' Hopkins

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Texan country blues legend Lightnin Hopkins was a fingerpicking genius with a mournful voice who, after a spell in prison, first came to prominence through recordings for Aladdin and Gold Star in the late 1940s. Somehow, by the mid-1950s, his star had waned, but when Samuel Charters appeared at his one-room Houston apartment with a bottle of gin, Hopkins agreed to cut ten unaccompanied songs for Folkways, the resultant Lightnin a pivotal success that reignited his career, sparking the blues revival in the process. Full of haunting loneliness, despair, sly innuendo and doses of good humour, this must-have LP is absolutely brilliant!

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LP - 1 disk
Release date
10-03-2023
Label
Item-nr
562418
EAN
8055515234053
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TRACKS

Disk 1

1. PENITENTIARY BLUES
2. BAD LUCK AND TROUBLE
3. COME GO HOME WITH ME
4. TROUBLE STAY 'WAY FROM MY DOOR
5. SEE THAT MY GRAVE IS KEPT CLEAN
6. GOIN' BACK TO FLORIDA
7. REMINISCENCES OF BLIND LEMON
8. FAN IT
9. TELL ME, BABY
10. SHE'S MINE