LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS

Texas bluesman Samuel “Lightnin’” Hopkins’ musical career was reignited by this 1959 release. With the aid of a little gin and a borrowed acoustic guitar, musicologist Sam Charters recorded Hopkins in his tiny apartment in Houston, Texas. The result is nine tracks of pure country blues and Hopkins’ reminiscences of his time performing with Blind Lemon Jefferson.

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 Reminiscenses of Blind Lemon
8 Fan It
9 Tell Me, Baby
10 She's Mine