1. ROCKY MOUNTAIN 2. GOT TO MOVE YOU BABY 3. SO SORRY TO LEAVE YOU 4. TAKE A TRIP WITH ME 5. LAST NIGHT BLUES 6. LIGHTNIN'S STROKE 7. HARD TO LOVE A WOMAN 8. CONVERSATION BLUES
Number of discs:
1
Description:
Lightninâ?? Hopkins is one of the most respected and influential Blues players there
has ever been. He remained rooted in what is known as Texas Country Blues, not
so much a style of playing as to do with the choices of local story songs. Texas is
a huge State and has over the years lent itself to many events in a variety of
places. Initially Lightninâ?? remained local but like others he was tempted to travel
more as worldwide interest in the Blues increased in the fifties and sixties. He
then played all over the United States, including prestige venues like Carnegie
Hall, and appeared in films and on TV shows. By the seventies he was travelling
to Europe, especially to Germany where he was particularly popular up his death
in January 1982. He was the most personal and poetic minstrel whose work will
endure.
Black 180g Vinyl Edition -
PERSONNEL:
BASS: Leonard Gaskin
DRUMS: Belton Evans
GUITAR: Lightnin' Hopkins
HARMONICA: Sonny Terry
VOCALS:Lightnin' Hopkins / Sonny Terry
PRODUCER:The Sound Of America AKA Ozzie Cadena
ENGINEER: Rudy Van Gelder