- blues
- 10 tracks
- Folkways Records
Lightnin' Hopkins is an album by blues musician Lightnin' Hopkins, recorded in 1959 and released on the Folkways label. The album was first released around the time that the book The Country Blues came out and was an instant success. It gave Hopkin's career a new lease on life.
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Classical in form, intimate, earnest and character-led.
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
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Tracks
- A1Penitentiary Blues
- A2Bad Luck and Trouble
- A3Come and Go With Me
- A4Trouble Stay 'Way From My Door
- A5See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
- B1Goin' Back to Florida
- B2Reminiscences of Blind Lemon
- B3Fan It
- B4Tell Me Baby
- B5She's Mine
About the album
- Artist
- Lightnin’ Hopkins
- Label
- Folkways Records
- Released
- 1959
- Type
- Album
- Format
- 12" Vinyl
- Country
- US
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