Time: 33:10
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2002
Styles: Memphis Blues
Art: Full
01. Hot Stuff (4:36)
02. The Shuffle (3:46)
03. Santa Fe (3:36)
04. Road House Blues (4:28)
05. Mojo (4:35)
06. Throw My Cap Outdoors (3:45)
07. Don't Mistreat A Friend (3:54)
08. My Baby Don't Sleep In The Bed With Me No More (4:26)
Hopkins' blues note on Beale Street says he was born in 1927. He says he once subtracted a few years to keep himself young, that he was actually born in 1921. The note calls him "Godfather of the Blues" -- a title he claims due to age and as a link to W.C. Handy, the "Father of the Blues."
Hopkins' mother ran a Tunica, Miss., "juke joint" when he was born. She called the club Big Baby's, a nickname she earned because her 200 pounds looked large on her 5-foot frame.
They lived in the club that drew sharecroppers because of Big Baby's cooking, moonshine, gambling and "real old-time 12-bar blues." Area sharecroppers earned less than a dollar a day harvesting cotton and corn. "They spent it all on Saturday night. There wasn't anything else to do," says Hopkins.
Some of the best bluesmen in the region, including Sonny Boy Williamson and Willie Love, played at Big Baby's. "I watched them and learned to play from that. I started playing piano when I was 6. I had to stand up to play. By the time I was 12, I was playing piano and singing in roadhouses on my own." ~Kelly Ludwig
Hopkins' mother ran a Tunica, Miss., "juke joint" when he was born. She called the club Big Baby's, a nickname she earned because her 200 pounds looked large on her 5-foot frame.
They lived in the club that drew sharecroppers because of Big Baby's cooking, moonshine, gambling and "real old-time 12-bar blues." Area sharecroppers earned less than a dollar a day harvesting cotton and corn. "They spent it all on Saturday night. There wasn't anything else to do," says Hopkins.
Some of the best bluesmen in the region, including Sonny Boy Williamson and Willie Love, played at Big Baby's. "I watched them and learned to play from that. I started playing piano when I was 6. I had to stand up to play. By the time I was 12, I was playing piano and singing in roadhouses on my own." ~Kelly Ludwig
Thanks to Albert.
Don't Mistreat A Friend