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ALBUMMojo Hand (Acapella) - SingleLightnin' Hopkins
Albums by Lightnin' Hopkins
ALBUMMojo Hand: The Complete Fire Sessions (Deluxe Edition)Lightnin' Hopkins
ALBUMBlues Bash (Remastered)Big Joe Williams, Sonny Terry, Lightnin' Hopkins & Brownie McGhee
ALBUMThe Sonet Blues StoryLightnin' Hopkins
ALBUMLightnin' and the Blues: The Herald Sessions (Remastered 2001)Lightnin' Hopkins
ALBUMLive! at the 1966 Berkeley Blues FestivalClifton Chenier, Mance Lipscomb & Lightnin' Hopkins
ALBUMLightnin' Hopkins: The Remaining Titles, Vol. 1 (1950-1961)Lightnin' Hopkins
ALBUMStraight BluesLightnin' Hopkins
ALBUMClassic Blues, Jazz and Vaudeville Singers Vol. 4 (1921-1928)Lightnin' Hopkins
ALBUMLos Angeles BluesLightnin' Hopkins
ALBUMTexas BluesLightnin' Hopkins
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An astronomical blues talent from the Lone Star State.
Artist Biography
Some artists are influential because so many followers try to imitate them; others are influential precisely because they cannot be imitated. Lightnin' Hopkins was of the latter variety. With a career that stretched from the 1920s through the '70s, the Texas bluesman was a genre unto himself, a deft guitarist equally at home in a quiet solo performance or fronting an electrified boogie band. He was a free-associating poet who made up entire songs on the spot, and a leathery-voiced singer whose vocals simultaneously communicated a lifetime of misery and an endless reserve of self-confidence.
Hometown
Centerville, TX, United States
Genre
Blues