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(2015/Cicadelic) 38 tracks. Lightnin' Hopkins woke up The Dead when he played San Francisco in... more

Lightnin' Hopkins & Billy Bizor: Wake Up The Dead (1968-1969 (2-CD)

(2015/Cicadelic) 38 tracks. Lightnin' Hopkins woke up The Dead when he played San Francisco in the 1960's and his song 'Wake Up The Dead' is the centerpiece of this two and a half hour journey into the electrified world of Texas blues. Accompanying Lightnin' on this journey is his long time harmonica player, Billy Bizor. While Lightnin' had a prolific recording career, Bizor's stature is relatively obscure due to the lack of solo recordings he released during his lifetime. Fortunately, 'Wake Up The Dead' seeks to rectify that situation by including the complete June 17, 1968 session with Lightnin' and Bizor, plus all of Bizors' 1969 solo recordings. As an added bonus, some tracks of the April 11, 1969 session are included. The highlight of this session is the nine minutes of outtakes of 'Mojo Hand'. Never before have the complete tapes from all the aforementioned sessions been released until now. Furthermore, the tapes have been remixed from the original three and four track masters to accentuate the magical chemistry between Lightnin' and Bizor.

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Hopkins, Lightnin' - Wake Up The Dead (1968-1969 (2-CD) CD 1
01 Wake Up The Dead Lightnin' Hopkins & Billy Bizor
02 Vietnam War Lightnin' Hopkins & Billy Bizor
03 Next Trip Dwn South Lightnin' Hopkins & Billy Bizor
04 Lonesome Life Lightnin' Hopkins & Billy Bizor
05 Pine Gum Boogie Lightnin' Hopkins & Billy Bizor
06 I'm Tired Of Trouble Lightnin' Hopkins & Billy Bizor
07 My Suggestion Lightnin' Hopkins & Billy Bizor
08 You're Gonna Miss Me Lightnin' Hopkins & Billy Bizor
09 Walking Blues Lightnin' Hopkins & Billy Bizor
10 How Dooz It Lightnin' Hopkins & Billy Bizor
11 Feel Like Ballin' The Jack (outtakes) Lightnin' Hopkins & Billy Bizor
12 Lightnin' Bolt Lightnin' Hopkins & Billy Bizor
13 Mojo Hand (outtakes) Lightnin' Hopkins & Billy Bizor
14 Mojo Hand (final version) Lightnin' Hopkins & Billy Bizor
15 Shake That Thing (first version) Lightnin' Hopkins & Billy Bizor
16 Moving On out (outtake) Lightnin' Hopkins & Billy Bizor
17 Free Of Charge Lightnin' Hopkins & Billy Bizor
18 Old Man Lightnin' Hopkins & Billy Bizor
19 Screwdriver Lightnin' Hopkins & Billy Bizor
20 Whiskey Head Woman Lightnin' Hopkins & Billy Bizor
21 How Dooz It (alternate version) Lightnin' Hopkins & Billy Bizor
22 Long Way From Home Lightnin' Hopkins & Billy Bizor
Hopkins, Lightnin' - Wake Up The Dead (1968-1969 (2-CD) CD 2
01 T Model Ford Billy Bizor
02 Whiskey Head Woman Billy Bizor
03 Take It Easy Little Girl Billy Bizor
04 When I'm Dead Billy Bizor
05 Screwdriver Billy Bizor
06 You Knock Me Out Billy Bizor
07 I'll Never Do Right Again Billy Bizor
08 I'll Miss You So Billy Bizor
09 Tell Me Where You Stayed Last Night Billy Bizor
10 You Promised Me Billy Bizor
11 Let's Pitch One Billy Bizor
12 Whiskey Head Woman (alternate version) Billy Bizor
13 Screwdriver (alternate version) Billy Bizor
14 A Hot Spirit Billy Bizor
15 Bill yBizor Is Dead Billy Bizor
16 Kust A Little Bit More Billy Bizor
Lightnin' Hopkins Lightnin' Hopkins is many people's idea of what a blues-singer should be... more
"Lightnin' Hopkins & Billy Bizor"

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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