UPC: 788065717223
Format: CD (4 disc)
Release Date: Jul 08, 2013
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Recording information: Englewood Cliffs, NJ (01/16/1959); Houston (01/16/1959); Los Angeles (01/16/1959); Englewood Cliffs, NJ (02/16/1959); Houston (02/16/1959); Los Angeles (02/16/1959); Englewood Cliffs, NJ (02/26/1959); Houston (02/26/1959); Los Angeles (02/26/1959); Englewood Cliffs, NJ (05/12/1959); Houston (05/12/1959); Los Angeles (05/12/1959); Englewood Cliffs, NJ (07/06/1960-07/07/1960); Houston (07/06/1960-07/07/1960); Los Angeles (07/06/1960-07/07/1960); Englewood Cliffs, NJ (07/13/1959); Houston (07/13/1959); Los Angeles (07/13/1959); Englewood Cliffs, NJ (07/16/1959); Houston (07/16/1959); Los Angeles (07/16/1959); Englewood Cliffs, NJ (07/1960); Houston (07/1960); Los Angeles (07/1960); Englewood Cliffs, NJ (07/20/1959); Houston (07/20/1959); Los Angeles (07/20/1959); Englewood Cliffs, NJ (10/25/1960); Houston (10/25/1960); Los Angeles (10/25/1960); Englewood Cliffs, NJ (11/09/1960); Houston (11/09/1960); Los Angeles (11/09/1960); Englewood Cliffs, NJ (11/15/1960); Houston (11/15/1960); Los Angeles (11/15/1960).
Although he had cut sides with the Aladdin, Modern, RPM, Gold Star, Jax, Mercury, and Decca labels in the 1940s and early '50s, Lightnin' Hopkins was back in his home base of Houston, Texas by 1959, all but forgotten. There he was rediscovered by folklorist Mack McCormick, who shifted Hopkins' image to that of an acoustic folk-blues performer, essentially igniting the flame for the rest of Hopkins' career. This four-disc set collects the acoustic sides the bluesman cut in his new incarnation (really just the same old Lightnin' with a slightly different marketing plan) in 1959 and 1960. ~ Steve Leggett
Although he had cut sides with the Aladdin, Modern, RPM, Gold Star, Jax, Mercury, and Decca labels in the 1940s and early '50s, Lightnin' Hopkins was back in his home base of Houston, Texas by 1959, all but forgotten. There he was rediscovered by folklorist Mack McCormick, who shifted Hopkins' image to that of an acoustic folk-blues performer, essentially igniting the flame for the rest of Hopkins' career. This four-disc set collects the acoustic sides the bluesman cut in his new incarnation (really just the same old Lightnin' with a slightly different marketing plan) in 1959 and 1960. ~ Steve Leggett
Tracks:
Disc 1:
1 - Penitentiary Blues
2 - Bad Luck and Trouble
3 - Come Go Home with Me
4 - Trouble Stay 'Way from My Door
5 - See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
6 - Goin' Back to Florida
7 - Reminiscences of Blind Lemon
8 - Fan It
9 - Tell Me, Baby
10 - She's Mine
11 - Til the Gin Gets Here
12 - So Long Baby
13 - Bunion Stew
14 - You Got to Work to Get Your Pay
15 - Go Down Ol' Hannah
16 - Santa Fe Blues
17 - Hear My Black Dog Bark
18 - Long Time
19 - Rainy Day Blues
20 - Worryin' My Mind
21 - Baby!
22 - Long Gone Like a Turkey Through the Corn
23 - See See Rider
24 - Prison Blues Come Down on Me
Disc 2:
1 - That Mean Old Twister (Backwater Blues)
2 - Gonna Pull a Party
3 - Bluebird Bluebird
4 - Get Off My Toe
5 - Short Haired Woman
6 - Mama and Papa Hopkins
7 - When the Saints Go Marching In
8 - In the Evening When the Sun Goes Down
9 - Foot Race Is On
10 - Bottle Up and Go
11 - That Gambling Life
12 - 75 Highway
13 - Trouble in Mind
14 - First Meeting
15 - How Long Have It Been Since You Been Home
16 - Big Black Cadillac Blues
17 - Coffee House Blues
18 - Stool Pigeon Blues
19 - Ball of Twine
Disc 3:
1 - Rocky Mountain
2 - Got to Move Your Baby
3 - So Sorry to Leave You
4 - Take a Trip with Me
5 - Last Night Blues
6 - Lightnin's Stroke
7 - Hard to Love a Woman
8 - Conversation Blues
9 - Automoblie Blues
10 - You Better Watch Yourself
11 - Mean Old Frisco
12 - Shinin' Moon
13 - Come Back Baby
14 - Thinkin' 'Bout an Old Friend
15 - Walkin' Blues
16 - Back to New Orleans
17 - Katie Mae
Disc 4:
1 - Down There Baby
2 - Rainy Highway
3 - When My First Wife Quit Me
4 - Walk On
5 - Lightnin's Guitar Boogie
6 - I've Had My Fun If I Don't Get Well No More
7 - Mister Charlie
8 - Mighty Crazy
9 - Wonder Why
10 - Black Cat
11 - Trouble Blues
12 - Your Own Fault, Baby, to Treat Me the Way You Do
13 - Lightnin's Piano Boogie
14 - Take It Easy
15 - Come Go Home with Me
1 - Penitentiary Blues
2 - Bad Luck and Trouble
3 - Come Go Home with Me
4 - Trouble Stay 'Way from My Door
5 - See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
6 - Goin' Back to Florida
7 - Reminiscences of Blind Lemon
8 - Fan It
9 - Tell Me, Baby
10 - She's Mine
11 - Til the Gin Gets Here
12 - So Long Baby
13 - Bunion Stew
14 - You Got to Work to Get Your Pay
15 - Go Down Ol' Hannah
16 - Santa Fe Blues
17 - Hear My Black Dog Bark
18 - Long Time
19 - Rainy Day Blues
20 - Worryin' My Mind
21 - Baby!
22 - Long Gone Like a Turkey Through the Corn
23 - See See Rider
24 - Prison Blues Come Down on Me
Disc 2:
1 - That Mean Old Twister (Backwater Blues)
2 - Gonna Pull a Party
3 - Bluebird Bluebird
4 - Get Off My Toe
5 - Short Haired Woman
6 - Mama and Papa Hopkins
7 - When the Saints Go Marching In
8 - In the Evening When the Sun Goes Down
9 - Foot Race Is On
10 - Bottle Up and Go
11 - That Gambling Life
12 - 75 Highway
13 - Trouble in Mind
14 - First Meeting
15 - How Long Have It Been Since You Been Home
16 - Big Black Cadillac Blues
17 - Coffee House Blues
18 - Stool Pigeon Blues
19 - Ball of Twine
Disc 3:
1 - Rocky Mountain
2 - Got to Move Your Baby
3 - So Sorry to Leave You
4 - Take a Trip with Me
5 - Last Night Blues
6 - Lightnin's Stroke
7 - Hard to Love a Woman
8 - Conversation Blues
9 - Automoblie Blues
10 - You Better Watch Yourself
11 - Mean Old Frisco
12 - Shinin' Moon
13 - Come Back Baby
14 - Thinkin' 'Bout an Old Friend
15 - Walkin' Blues
16 - Back to New Orleans
17 - Katie Mae
Disc 4:
1 - Down There Baby
2 - Rainy Highway
3 - When My First Wife Quit Me
4 - Walk On
5 - Lightnin's Guitar Boogie
6 - I've Had My Fun If I Don't Get Well No More
7 - Mister Charlie
8 - Mighty Crazy
9 - Wonder Why
10 - Black Cat
11 - Trouble Blues
12 - Your Own Fault, Baby, to Treat Me the Way You Do
13 - Lightnin's Piano Boogie
14 - Take It Easy
15 - Come Go Home with Me