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Lightnin' Hopkins: King Of Dowling Street (3-CD)

(Sunset Blvd Records) 57 tracks incl. live recordings (CD-3), digisleeve

  •     20 songs never before released on CD
  •     12 previously unreleased recordings
  •     Remastered from analog tapes


Texas bluesman Lightnin' Hopkins' career was both long and prolific. He performed live for six decades and recorded for over 30, amassing a catalog larger than almost any of his contemporaries. In addition to being prolific, he was a great storyteller and a very good live performer with an "act" he had perfected at dances and parties in the antebellum era.

His guitar playing was unconventional, some have even called it ragged, but it is not as a guitarist that he will be remembered. Somehow the way he set his songs seemed completely appropriate and it gave everything he did an authenticity that few others could ever match.

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Hopkins, Lightnin' - King Of Dowling Street (3-CD) CD 1
01 Moanin' Blues Lightnin' Hopkins
02 Leavin' Blues Lightnin' Hopkins
03 Late In The Evening Lightnin' Hopkins
04 Lightnin' Jump Lightnin' Hopkins
05 Long Gone Like A Turkey Through Corn Lightnin' Hopkins
06 How Long Have It Been Since You Been Home Lightnin' Hopkins
07 Mojo Hand Lightnin' Hopkins
08 Glory Be Lightnin' Hopkins
09 How Long Has That Train Been Gone Lightnin' Hopkins
10 Have You Ever Loved A Woman? Lightnin' Hopkins
11 Santa Lightnin' Hopkins
12 Black Mare Trot Lightnin' Hopkins
13 Coffee For Mama Lightnin' Hopkins
14 Awful Dream Lightnin' Hopkins
15 Sometimes She Will Lightnin' Hopkins
16 Shine On, Moon Lightnin' Hopkins
17 Houston Bound Lightnin' Hopkins
18 Baby I Don't Care Lightnin' Hopkins
19 Give Me Time To Think Lightnin' Hopkins
20 No Education Lightnin' Hopkins
Hopkins, Lightnin' - King Of Dowling Street (3-CD) CD 2
01 This Time We're Going To Try Lightnin' Hopkins
02 Christmas Time Is Coming Lightnin' Hopkins
03 Let's Work Awhile Lightnin' Hopkins
04 The Jet Lightnin' Hopkins
05 I Don't Need You Woman Lightnin' Hopkins
06 I Wish I Was A Baby Lightnin' Hopkins
07 The Crazy Song Lightnin' Hopkins
08 Lightnin's Love Lightnin' Hopkins
09 Take It If You Want It Lightnin' Hopkins
10 How Have You Been Lightnin' Hopkins
11 My Baby Was Crying For Bread Lightnin' Hopkins
12 I Wonder Where She Can Be Tonight Lightnin' Hopkins
13 Feel Like Ballin' The Jack Lightnin' Hopkins
14 Rainy Day In Houston Lightnin' Hopkins
15 How Does It (Instrumental) Lightnin' Hopkins
16 A Man Like Me Is Hard To Find Lightnin' Hopkins
17 Movin' Out Lightnin' Hopkins
18 You Just Gotta Miss Me World's In A Tangle Lightnin' Hopkins
19 World's In A Tangle Lightnin' Hopkins
20 Shinin' Moon Lightnin' Hopkins
Hopkins, Lightnin' - King Of Dowling Street (3-CD) CD 3
01 You Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone Lightnin' Hopkins
02 Big Black Cadillac Blues Lightnin' Hopkins
03 Baby Please Dont Go Lightnin' Hopkins
04 Houston Rock Lightnin' Hopkins
05 Leave Jike Mary Alone Lightnin' Hopkins
06 Rock Me All Night Long Lightnin' Hopkins
07 Dont Treat That Mam The Way You Treat Me Lightnin' Hopkins
08 Cook My Breakfast Lightnin' Hopkins
09 You Treat Po' Lightnin' Wrong Lightnin' Hopkins
10 I Got My Hook In Your Water Lightnin' Hopkins
11 Mighty Crazy Lightnin' Hopkins
12 My Babe Lightnin' Hopkins
13 Last Night I Lost The Best Friend I Ever Had Lightnin' Hopkins
14 Mr Charlie (Part 2) Lightnin' Hopkins
15 Baby Scratch My Back Lightnin' Hopkins
16 Mojo Hand Lightnin' Hopkins
17 Shining Moon Lightnin' Hopkins
Lightnin' Hopkins Lightnin' Hopkins is many people's idea of what a blues-singer should be... more
"Lightnin' Hopkins"

Lightnin' Hopkins

Lightnin' Hopkins is many people's idea of what a blues-singer should be : an endlessly inventive folk-poet, whose imagination is touched by almost everything but whose sing-ing and playing express nothing but the blues. And this, despite nearly 30 years of performing and recording, and all the pressures that might have made him something else, he unswervingly has been. But he has not, outside his own com-munity, been very obviously influential on either American or British rock; his blues, sung by others, are not self-sustaining, as many of the Chicagoans' are.

 

His early recordings, in the Forties and Fifties, were characterised by thunderous amplification - as any number of reissues demonstrate - but his first ventures into a different market, with acoustic guitar, compensate in subtlety for what they lose in force (e.g. the Folkways and some Bluesville albums). Later sessions placed him with accompanying groups, rarely successfully, though his album for Jewel is an exception.

Through all these records he balances slow blues with vivid boogies, occasionally leaving his guitar to essay an idiosyncratic piano style. Born in Centerville, Texas, in 1912, he spent most of his life in Houston, and his refusal to extract himself from that milieu is the chief reason for his undiminished authenticity as an observer, through the blues, of black life.

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Tracklist
Hopkins, Lightnin' - King Of Dowling Street (3-CD) CD 1
01 Moanin' Blues
02 Leavin' Blues
03 Late In The Evening
04 Lightnin' Jump
05 Long Gone Like A Turkey Through Corn
06 How Long Have It Been Since You Been Home
07 Mojo Hand
08 Glory Be
09 How Long Has That Train Been Gone
10 Have You Ever Loved A Woman?
11 Santa
12 Black Mare Trot
13 Coffee For Mama
14 Awful Dream
15 Sometimes She Will
16 Shine On, Moon
17 Houston Bound
18 Baby I Don't Care
19 Give Me Time To Think
20 No Education
Hopkins, Lightnin' - King Of Dowling Street (3-CD) CD 2
01 This Time We're Going To Try
02 Christmas Time Is Coming
03 Let's Work Awhile
04 The Jet
05 I Don't Need You Woman
06 I Wish I Was A Baby
07 The Crazy Song
08 Lightnin's Love
09 Take It If You Want It
10 How Have You Been
11 My Baby Was Crying For Bread
12 I Wonder Where She Can Be Tonight
13 Feel Like Ballin' The Jack
14 Rainy Day In Houston
15 How Does It (Instrumental)
16 A Man Like Me Is Hard To Find
17 Movin' Out
18 You Just Gotta Miss Me World's In A Tangle
19 World's In A Tangle
20 Shinin' Moon
Hopkins, Lightnin' - King Of Dowling Street (3-CD) CD 3
01 You Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone
02 Big Black Cadillac Blues
03 Baby Please Dont Go
04 Houston Rock
05 Leave Jike Mary Alone
06 Rock Me All Night Long
07 Dont Treat That Mam The Way You Treat Me
08 Cook My Breakfast
09 You Treat Po' Lightnin' Wrong
10 I Got My Hook In Your Water
11 Mighty Crazy
12 My Babe
13 Last Night I Lost The Best Friend I Ever Had
14 Mr Charlie (Part 2)
15 Baby Scratch My Back
16 Mojo Hand
17 Shining Moon