Absolute Classic of Electric Texas Blues!
Includes Limited Time Download Card!
Recorded in Berkeley, CA and Houston, TX during the winter of 1961-62, Lightnin Sam Hopkins features a stripped-down blues trio on some of the most intimate and powerful recordings of Hopkins long and storied career. An absolute classic of electric Texas blues reissued on LP in a deluxe tip-on jacket.
"The topics are largely based on ... experiences from the Los Angeles fire which burned in the Hollywood hills while Lightnin' was playing in L.A., to the autobiographical 'Once Was A Gambler.' Perhaps the most spontaneous performance was 'Ice Storm Blues' recorded shortly after his return to Houston when a bitter cold wave hit the South. One of his old favorites, 'Bald Headed Woman', became a new creation, and the delightful piano number 'Do the Boogie', is one of those rare informal bits which usually doesn't get on a record. The brooding 'California Showers' was recorded one rainy afternoon at his cousin's house in Oakland--it had been raining for weeks, it was almost like the weather in Houston--and this number represents that part of Lightnin's personality and artistry which is often covered up in front of an audience--the lonely blues man by himself. Here is Lightnin' Hopkins, perhaps the greatest creatve blues singer the world will ever hear." - Chris Strachwitz, producer
Musicians:
Lightning Hopkins, vocals, guitar, piano
Spider Kilpatrick, drums (Meet You At The Chicken Shack, Ice Storm Blues)
Gino Landry, bass
Victor Leonard, drums
Features:
Vinyl LP
Limited Time MP3 download
Deluxe tip-on jacket
Selections:
Side One:
1. Meet You At The Chicken Shack
2. Once Was A Gambler
3. Speedin' Boogie
4. Ice Storm Blues
Side Two:
1. California Showers
2. Burnin' In L.A.
3. Do The Boogie
4. Bald Headed Woman
5. Goin' Out
Includes Limited Time Download Card!
Recorded in Berkeley, CA and Houston, TX during the winter of 1961-62, Lightnin Sam Hopkins features a stripped-down blues trio on some of the most intimate and powerful recordings of Hopkins long and storied career. An absolute classic of electric Texas blues reissued on LP in a deluxe tip-on jacket.
"The topics are largely based on ... experiences from the Los Angeles fire which burned in the Hollywood hills while Lightnin' was playing in L.A., to the autobiographical 'Once Was A Gambler.' Perhaps the most spontaneous performance was 'Ice Storm Blues' recorded shortly after his return to Houston when a bitter cold wave hit the South. One of his old favorites, 'Bald Headed Woman', became a new creation, and the delightful piano number 'Do the Boogie', is one of those rare informal bits which usually doesn't get on a record. The brooding 'California Showers' was recorded one rainy afternoon at his cousin's house in Oakland--it had been raining for weeks, it was almost like the weather in Houston--and this number represents that part of Lightnin's personality and artistry which is often covered up in front of an audience--the lonely blues man by himself. Here is Lightnin' Hopkins, perhaps the greatest creatve blues singer the world will ever hear." - Chris Strachwitz, producer
Musicians:
Lightning Hopkins, vocals, guitar, piano
Spider Kilpatrick, drums (Meet You At The Chicken Shack, Ice Storm Blues)
Gino Landry, bass
Victor Leonard, drums
Features:
Vinyl LP
Limited Time MP3 download
Deluxe tip-on jacket
Selections:
Side One:
1. Meet You At The Chicken Shack
2. Once Was A Gambler
3. Speedin' Boogie
4. Ice Storm Blues
Side Two:
1. California Showers
2. Burnin' In L.A.
3. Do The Boogie
4. Bald Headed Woman
5. Goin' Out
