Lightnin' Hopkins Smokes Like Lightning (LP, 180g Vinyl)

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(4 Men With Beards) 9 tracks Originally released on Bluesville in 1963 and recorded in 1962,... more

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Lightnin' Hopkins: Smokes Like Lightning (LP, 180g Vinyl)

(4 Men With Beards) 9 tracks
Originally released on Bluesville in 1963 and recorded in 1962, "Smokes Like Lightning" features a Hopkins solo on guitar and vocals.

Includes a new recording of "T Model Blues" and "Let's Do The Susie-Q". Reissue on 180-gram vinyl.

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Interpret: Lightnin' Hopkins
Album titlle: Smokes Like Lightning (LP, 180g Vinyl)
Genre Blues
Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min
Vinyl record size LP (12 Inch)
Record Grading Mint (M)
Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
Vinyl weight 180g Vinyl
Label 4 MEN WITH BEARDS
Artikelart LP
EAN: 0646315124910
weight in Kg 0.35

Hopkins, Lightnin' - Smokes Like Lightning (LP, 180g Vinyl) LP 1
01	T Model Blues	Lightnin' Hopkins
02	Jackstropper Blues	Lightnin' Hopkins
03	You Cook All Right	Lightnin' Hopkins
04	My Black Name	Lightnin' Hopkins
05	Never Miss Your Water	Lightnin' Hopkins
06	Lets Do The Susie-Q	Lightnin' Hopkins
07	Ida Mae	Lightnin' Hopkins
08	Smokes Like Lightning	Lightnin' Hopkins
09	Prison Farm Blues	Lightnin' Hopkins

Lightnin' Hopkins Lightnin' Hopkins is many people's idea of what a blues-singer should be... more

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"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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