Lightnin' Hopkins - 1960 - Country Blues [320]

Country Blues showcases Hopkins in his element, vividly coloring in the standards and originals with emotion, energy, longing, and wiry wit. Standards like the uptempo "See See Rider" and the slow bottomless "Backwater Blues" are made his own. As well, Country Blues is full of love--all the blue shades of love--the lost love in the moanful "Baby," the betrayal of love in the pondering "Hear My Black Dog Bark," and the love left behind (just in time) in the breathless "Long Gone." Those who came later to the life of the blues were deeply influenced by Lightnin'. The Tradition reissue of this album includes the original comprehensive liner notes by Producer Mack McCormick.

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Lightnin' Hopkins - 1960 - Lightnin' In New York [320]

This solo CD features the classic bluesman Lightnin' Hopkins on nine unaccompanied solos, not only singing and playing guitar but taking some rare solos on piano (including on "Lightnin's Piano Boogie").
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