AGAIN, MAN AND GUITAR

One thing you can say about Lightnin' Hopkins is that he sure knew to make hay while the sun shines.  Everything in his bio is almost textbook bluesman. After meeting Blind Melon Jefferson at age eight, he started playing guitar. He did a stint in prison in his mid-twenties, moved to the city (Houston) to try to make it, and when that failed, he went home and worked as a farm hand. Things could have ended there, but just a few years later he went back to the city, got discovered and started recording in 1946. That's still early. In 1959 there was a folk and blues thing picking up steam, and Hopkin's jumped on that shit, releasing at least one LP a year for eleven years straight, twenty six in all. Yeah. There were five in 1960 alone. Even if he is, as they say, the most recorded blues man in history, I challenge you to bring in a stinker.

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Listen:
Lightnin' Hopkins - Lightnin' Strikes One More Time mp3 at Music Like Dirt
Lightnin' Hopkins - Lovin' Arms mp3 at Music Like Dirt
Lighntin' Blues - Lightning Boogie mp3 at 8106
Lightnin' Hopkins - Coffeehouse Blues mp3 at Rock Town Hall 
Lightnin' Hopkins - Rainy Day Blues mp3 at Shimmy She Wobble 
Lightnin' Hopkins - Shake That Thing mp3 at Clayton Counts
Video:
Lightnin' Hopkins - Playing at a party at YouTube Short but sweet. Dig the washboard.
Lightnin' Hopkins and Sonny Terry at YouTube Period clips from a Les Blank film