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ARTIST
HOPKINS, LIGHTNIN'
TITLE
Lightnin' Hopkins
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
DESTINATION MOON
CATALOG #
DMOO 019LP
DMOO 019LP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
3/10/2023
Reissue, originally released in 1959. Texan country blues legend
Lightnin' Hopkins
was a fingerpicking genius with a mournful voice who, after a spell in prison, first came to prominence through recordings for Aladdin and Gold Star in the late 1940s. Somehow, by the mid-1950s, his star had waned, but when
Samuel Charters
appeared at his one-room Houston apartment with a bottle of gin, Hopkins agreed to cut ten unaccompanied songs for Folkways, the resultant
Lightnin'
a pivotal success that reignited his career, sparking the blues revival in the process. Full of haunting loneliness, despair, sly innuendo, and doses of good humor, this must-have LP is absolutely brilliant. Clear vinyl.
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