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AVID Roots continues with its Four Classic Roots album series with a re-mastered 2CD release by Lightnin Hopkins, complete with original artwork and liner notes. Lightnin And The Blues; Country Blues; Lightnin In New York and Mojo Hand A Blues man the like of which they write they dont make em like that anymore. Born in Texas in 1912, Sam Lightnin Hopkins began his musical journey into the blues at the age of 8 when he met the legendary and mysterious Blues man, Blind Lemon Jefferson at a local church social. So began a kind of informal apprenticeship when Hopkins accompanied Jefferson to many of his musical engagements soaking up as much as he could from the great man. By his teens he had hooked up with his cousin, another blues man, Texas Alexander with whom he travelled and worked until being discovered in 1946. Re-christened Lightnin in partnership with pianist Wilson Smith, re-christened Thunder, the pair became Aladdin recording artists. The career of Lightnin Hopkins then followed much the same path as many fellow blues men. Success of sorts in the 1940s and 1950s before then slipping into obscurity only to be re-discovered during the Blues/Folk revival in the 1960s. He would go on to become the most recorded bluesman in history and was voted in Rolling Stone magazine Top 100, as the 71st greatest guitarist of all time.
CD1 1-12: Lightnin And The Blues 1. Nothin But The Blues 2. Dont Think Youre Pretty 3. Lightnins Boogie 4. Life I Used To Live 5. Sick Feelin Blues 6. Evil Hearted Woman 7. Blues For My Cookie 8. Sittin Down Thinkin 9. My Babys Gone 10. Lonesome In Your House 11. Lightnins Special 12. My Little Kewpie Doll 13-27: Country Blues 13. Long Time 14. Rainy Day Blues 15. Baby! 16. Long Gone Like A Turkey Thru The Corn 17. Prison Blues Come Down On Me 18. Backwater Blues (This Mean Old Twister) 19. Gonna Pull A Party 20. Bluebird, Bluebird 21. See See Rider 22. Worrying My Mind 23. Till The Gin Gets Here 24. Bunion Stew 25. You Got To Work To Get You Pay 26. Go Down Old Hannah 27. Hear My Black Dog Bark
CD2 1-8: Lightnin In New York 1. Take It Easy 2. Mighty Crazy 3. Your Own Fault, Baby, To Treat Me The Way You Do 4. Ive Had My Fun If I Dont Get Well No More 5. The Trouble Blues 6. Lightnins Piano Boogie 7. Wonder Why 8. Mister Charlie 9-17: Mojo Hand 9. Mojo Hand 10. Coffee For Mama 11. Awful Dream 12. Black Mare Trot 13. Have You Ever Loved A Woman 14. Glory Bee 15. Sometimes She Will 16. Shine On, Moon! 17. Santa
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