Lightnin' Hopkins
Some artists are influential because so many followers try to imitate them; others are influential precisely because they cannot be imitated. Lightnin' Hopkins was of the latter variety. With a career that stretched from the 1920s through the '70s, the Texas bluesman was a genre unto himself, a deft guitarist equally at home in a quiet solo performance or fronting an electrified boogie band. He was a free-associating poet who made up entire songs on the spot, and a leathery-voiced singer whose vocals simultaneously communicated a lifetime of misery and an endless reserve of self-confidence.
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Albums
- (2007) Straight Blues
- (2006) The Sonet Blues Story
- (2006) Double Blues
- (2006) How Many More Years I Got
- (2006) Blues In My Bottle
- (2006) Last Night Blues
- (2006) Swathmore Concert
- (2006) The Best Of Lightnin' Hopkins
- (2006) Goin' Away
- (2006) Lightnin'
- (2006) Hootin' The Blues
- (2006) Soul Blues
- (2006) Smokes Like Lightnin'
- (2004) Complete Aladdin Recordings*Complete Aladdin Recordings*
- (1996) Country Blues
- (1995) Los Angeles Blues
- (1993) Mojo Hand: The Lightnin' Hopkins Anthology - CD1
- (1993) Mojo Hand: The Lightnin' Hopkins Anthology - CD2
- (1991) The Complete Aladdin Recordings - CD1
- (1991) The Complete Aladdin Recordings - CD2
- (1990) Mojo Hand-Golden Classics
- (1990) Texas Blues
Top Tracks
- Mojo Hand
- Blues Is a Feeling
- Moon Rise Blues
- Movin' On Out Boogie
- Feel So Bad
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- B.B. King
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