Lightnin' Hopkins - The Roots Of Lightnin' Hopkins mp3

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Credits

• Design, Artwork [Drawing] – Craig Mierop
• Performer, Arranged By, Adapted By – Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins
• Recorded By, Engineer, Liner Notes – Samuel B. Charters

Notes

First and second catalogue numbers on sleeve, second only on labels.

Electronically re-channeled to simulate Stereophonic

Companies

• Distributed By – Kiwi Records
• Distributed By – A.H. & A.W. Reed
• Copyright (c) – Folkways Records & Service Corp.

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Lightnin' Hopkins re-released as The Roots of Lightnin' Hopkins is an album by blues musician Lightnin' Hopkins, recorded in 1959 and released on the Folkways label. The album was first released at around the time the book The Country Blues came out and was an instant success and gave Lightnin's career a well-deserved new lease on life. Lightnin' went on to record many more songs in the '60s and '70s. Aka The Roots of Lightin' Hopkins Folkways Records FS3822 A1 Penitentiary Blues traditional A2 Bad Luck And Trouble Lightnin' Hopkins - Mack McCormick. The Very Best of Lightnin' Hopkins - Lightning Hopkins. Лента с персональными рекомендациями и музыкальными новинками, радио, подборки на любой вкус, удобное управление своей коллекцией. Lightnin' - The Blues of Lightnin' Hopkins - Lightning Hopkins. Lightnin' - The Blues of Lightnin' Hopkins. Lightnin' Hopkins, rereleased as The Roots of Lightnin' Hopkins is an album by blues musician Lightnin' Hopkins recorded in 1959 and released on the Folkways label. 1 Reception. Persuading Lightnin' with a bottle of gin, Charters convinced Hopkins to record ten songs in that room, using only one microphone. The resulting record was one of the greatest albums in Hopkins' catalog, a skeletal record that is absolutely naked in its loneliness and haunting in its despair. Originally released as The Roots of Lightnin' Hopkins, SmithsonianFolkways' Lightnin' Hopkins was recorded in 1959. Upon its initial release, it was a pivotal part of the blues revival and helped re-spark interest in Hopkins. Before it was recorded, the bluesman had disappeared from sight after a great deal of searching, Sam Charters found Hopkins in a rented one-room apartment in Houston. The Roots of Lightnin' Hopkins - Penitentiary Blues - Bad Luck and Trouble - Come Go Home with Me - Trouble Stay 'Way from My Door - See That My Grave is Kept Clean - Goin' Back to Florida - Reminiscenses of Blind Lemon - Fan It - Tell Me, Baby - She's Mine rec. Joel & Lightnin' Hopkins Heritage HLP 1001, Collector's Issue C-5530 track sequence: Joel Hopkins - Good Times Here, Better Down The Road - Match Box Blues - Accused Me Of Forgin' Can't Even Write My Name - I Ain't Gonna Roll For The Big Hat Man No More - Thunder In Germany, Red Cross On My Own Sam Lightnin' Hopkins - Long Way From. A1 Long Time A2 Rainy Day Blues A3 Baby Vocals Luke Long Gone Miles A4 Long Gone Like A Turkey Thru The Corn Long John A5 Prison Blues Come Down On Me Vocals Luke Long Gone Miles A6 Backwater Blues That Mean Old Twister A7 Gonna Pull A Party. B1 Bluebird, Bluebird B2 See See Rider B3 Worrying My Mind B4 Till The Gin Gets Here B5 Bunion Stew B6 You Got To Work To Get You Pay B7 Go Down Old Hannah B8 Hear My Black Dog Bark. Lightnin' and the Blues 1955 Nothin' but the Blues, Don't Think'Cause You're Pretty, Lightnin's Boogie, Life I Used to Live, Sick Feelin' Blues, Evil Hearted Woman, Blues for My Cookie, Sittin' Down Thinkin', My Baby's Gone, Lonesome in Your Home, Lightnin's Special, My Little Kewpie Doll. Lightnin' Hopkins was a member of: The Hopkins Brothers. Related artists . Lightnin' Hopkins - Po' Lightnin' 1995. To favorites 0 Download album. Listen album. Lightnin' Hopkins. Group Compilation. Songs in album Lightnin' Hopkins - Po' Lightnin' 1995. Lightnin' Hopkins - Ice Storm Blues. Lightnin' Hopkins - Speedin' Boogie. Lightnin' Hopkins - Wine Drinking Woman. Lightnin' Hopkins - Do The Boogie. Lightnin' Hopkins - My Baby's Gone. Lightnin' Hopkins - Wake U