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(2015/Cicadelic) 20 tracks. Lightnin' Hopkins recorded over a dozen songs for the Clarity Music... more

Lightnin' Hopkins: Shootin' Fire (CD)

(2015/Cicadelic) 20 tracks.
Lightnin' Hopkins recorded over a dozen songs for the Clarity Music Company at the "ACA" Recording Studio in Houston in April of 1969. These songs ranged from new originals, such as "Born In The Bottom", "December 7, 1941", "A Rainy Day In Houston", and "Stinking Foot", to oldies such as "Feel Like Ballin' The Jack", "Shake That Thing" and "Shinin' Moon". Since the 1970's some of these songs have been released on haphazard compilations with the bass and drums mixed too high, the guitar leads mixed too low, and excessive "reverb" in an attempt to make Lightnin' sound more contemporary. Now for the first time ever the original four track masters have been re-mixed without any of the extraneous studio misjudgments that marred previous releases. As an added bonus, previously unreleased recordings such as "Movin On Out When The Saints March In", "Old House Torn Down", "Mistrust My Baby And She Mistrust Me", and "Baby Please Don't Do Me Wrong" are included on this compendium of Lightnin' Hopkins gems. A large selection of never before seen photos, contracts, and documents rounds out this collection of rarities. The net result is 77 minutes of Lightnin' Hopkins in his prime "shootin' fire". Lightin' Hopkins - - gtr,voc, Cedric Hayword - pno, Lawrence Evans - bass, Ben Turner - drums.

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Hopkins, Lightnin' - Shootin' Fire (CD) CD 1
01 Born in the Bottom Lightnin' Hopkins
02 Rainy Day in Houston Lightnin' Hopkins
03 A Man Like Me Is Hard to Find Lightnin' Hopkins
04 Got a Letter This Morning Lightnin' Hopkins
05 Moving On Out Lightnin' Hopkins
06 Shinin' Moon Lightnin' Hopkins
07 Feel Like Ballin' the Jack Lightnin' Hopkins
08 Stinking Foot Lightnin' Hopkins
09 December 7, 1941 Lightnin' Hopkins
10 My Baby Ain't Got No Shoes Lightnin' Hopkins
11 My Baby Was Crying for Bread Lightnin' Hopkins
12 My Little Darling Lightnin' Hopkins
13 Battle Hymn of the Republic Go Ahead
14 Shake That Thing Lightnin' Hopkins
15 Mistrust My Baby and She Mistrust Me Lightnin' Hopkins
16 Moving on Out When the Saints March In Lightnin' Hopkins
17 Old House Torn Down Lightnin' Hopkins
18 Baby Please Don't do Me Wrong Lightnin' Hopkins
19 Good as Old Time Religion Lightnin' Hopkins
20 I'm Shootin' Fire Lightnin' Hopkins
Lightnin' Hopkins Niemand konnte Lightnin' Hopkins etwas vormachen, wenn es darum ging,... more
"Lightnin' Hopkins"

Lightnin' Hopkins

Niemand konnte Lightnin' Hopkins etwas vormachen, wenn es darum ging, gigantisch loszurocken. Auch Little Richard nicht. Jedenfalls gibt es keinen Beleg dafür, dass Richard jemals ein schnelleres Tempo angezählt hätte als Lightnin' auf Hopkins' Sky Hop.

Aufgenommen wurde das Instrumentalstück in seiner Heimatstadt Houston im April 1954 während äußerst produktiver Sessions, bei denen eine Menge Masteraufnahmen entstanden. Herald Records in New York konnte mehrere Jahre davon zehren. Die unglaublich schnelle Nummer spielte Hopkins mit zwei lokalen Musikern ein, die seinen unvorhersehbaren Timing- und Akkordwechseln traumwandlerisch folgen konnten: Bassist Donald Cooks und Drummer Ben Turner. Lightnin' kam mit seiner elektrischen Gitarre bestens klar; es machte ihm offensichtlich einen Heidenspaß, hier einige der toughesten Gitarrenlicks in der Geschichte des texanischen Blues abzufeuern.

Doch die Zeit überholte den altgedienten Texas-Bluesmann. Sessions für TNT und Chart Mitte der 50er Jahre blieben offensichtlich seine letzten Chancen auf dem R&B-Markt. Dann kam Anfang 1959 der Musikwissenschaftler Sam Charters vorbei und nahm Lightnin' mit einem Mikro in seinem Zimmer für eine Folkways-LP auf, die dem Blues-Veteranen ein ganz neues Publikum erschloss. Viele weitere Aufnahmen folgten für eine große Anzahl von Firmen, und bald steckte Hopkins voll im Folkblues-Boom, durch den längst vergessene Bluesmänner aus dem Süden zum Teil nach Jahrzehnten wiederentdeckt wurden. Lightnin' hatte mit Sonnenbrille und gestylten Haaren eine coolere Bühnenpräsenz als die meisten anderen. Seine 1960er-Session für Bobby Robinson in Harlem verschaffte ihm mit Mojo Hand auf dem Fire-Label sogar noch einen letzten Jukebox-Hit.

Lightnin' spielte über die gesamte Dauer seiner weiteren Karriere eine große Menge Platten ein. So lange ein Produzent ein Bündel Geldscheine für ihn hatte, machte er für ihn Aufnahmen, wobei es immer nur einen Versuch pro Titel gab. Zu Stan Lewis' Jewel Records stand er loyaler als zu den meisten anderen und reiste 1969 für eine Jewel-Session in die Muscle Shoals Studios. Hopkins starb am 30. Januar 1982 in Houston. Er war der ultimative Texas-Bluestroubadour, egal ob er seine Boogies und beseelten langsameren Bluestitel auf einer elektrischen oder akustischen Gitarre spielte.

Bill Dahl
Chicago, Illinois

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Tracklist
Hopkins, Lightnin' - Shootin' Fire (CD) CD 1
01 Born in the Bottom
02 Rainy Day in Houston
03 A Man Like Me Is Hard to Find
04 Got a Letter This Morning
05 Moving On Out
06 Shinin' Moon
07 Feel Like Ballin' the Jack
08 Stinking Foot
09 December 7, 1941
10 My Baby Ain't Got No Shoes
11 My Baby Was Crying for Bread
12 My Little Darling
13 Battle Hymn of the Republic
14 Shake That Thing
15 Mistrust My Baby and She Mistrust Me
16 Moving on Out When the Saints March In
17 Old House Torn Down
18 Baby Please Don't do Me Wrong
19 Good as Old Time Religion
20 I'm Shootin' Fire