Numbered, Limited Edition of 500 Copies on Clear Vinyl LP!
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.
Features
- Numbered, Limited Edition - 500 Copies
- Clear Vinyl
- Import
Selections
Side One:
- Penitentiary Blues
- Bad Luck and Trouble
- Come Go Home with Me
- Trouble Stay 'Way from My Door
- See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
Side Two:
- Goin' Back to Florida
- Reminiscences of Blind Lemon
- Fan It
- Tell Me, Baby
- She's Mine