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Lightning Hopkins“The Gold Star Sessions - Vol. 1”CD/CASS 330
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Buy It Now!
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Sam “Lightning” Hopkins - vocals and guitar.
Recorded in Houston for the Gold Star label in the late 1940s. Remastered in 1990 from the original acetates and 78 pressings.
Part one of two volumes. Also available “The Gold Star Sessions - Vol. 2”, CD 337
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Listen to some of the tracks!! (uses RealAudio®) 1. Short Haired Woman 2. Baby Please Don't Go 3. Going Home Blues (Going Back And Talk To Mama) 4. Automobile Blues 5. Big Mama Jump 6. Loretta Blues 7. Seems Funny Baby 8. Thunder And Lightning Blues (Coolin' Board Blues) 9. Grosebeck Blues 10. Tim Moore's Farm 11. Lightning Boogie 12. Traveler's Blues 13. Goodbye Blues 14. Unkind Blues 15. Fast Life Woman 16. Zolo Go (Zydeco) 17. You Don't Know 18. Treat Me Kind 19. Somebody Got To Go 20. Death Bells 21. Mad With You 22. Airplane Blues 23. Racetrack Blues 24. Unsuccessful Blues |
REVIEWS “These two volumes round up all of Hopkins' seminal recordings, all recorded for the Houston-based Gold Star label between 1947 and 1950 the majority are either definitive postwar Texas blues performances (even shades of Zydeco appear on `Zolo Go') or vividly reveal what Hopkins learned from Texas Alexander and other early influences.”(Mike Joyce — The Washington Post) |
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“Every blues collection should include a selection of Lightning Hopkins' early sides and I suggest one, if not both, of these. This blues is just so good.”
(Mark Harris — Juke Blues)
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