The Complete Prestige / Bluesville Recordings

Lightnin' Hopkins

7PRCD-4406-2
RELEASE DATE: 14 Oct 1991
7PRCD-4406-2
label: Prestige
genre: R&B, Blues, Soul & Stax
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tracklisting

Disc 1
1. Rocky Mountain
2. Got To Move Your Baby
3. So Sorry To Leave You
4. Take A Trip With Me
5. Last Night Blues
6. Lightnin's Stroke
7. Hard To Love A Woman
8. Conversation Blues
9. Automobile Blues
10. You Better Watch Yourself
11. Mean Old Frisco Blues
12. Shinin' Moon
13. Come Back, Baby
14. Thinkin' 'Bout An Old Friend
15. The Walkin' Blues
16. Back To New Orleans
17. Katie Mae
18. Down There Baby
Disc 2
1. Black Gal
2. Baby, Don't You Tear My Clothes
3. Good Morning Little School Girl
4. Coffee Blues
5. Buddy Brown's Blues (98 Degree Blues)
6. Wine Spodee-O-Dee
7. Sail On, Little Girl, Sail On
8. DC-7
9. Death Bells
10. Goin' To Dallas To See My Pony Run
11. Jailhouse Blues
12. Blues In The Bottle
13. Beans, Beans, Beans
14. Catfish Blues
15. My Grandpa Is Old Too!
16. T Model Blues
17. Jackstropper Blues
18. You Cook All Right
19. You Never Miss Your Water
20. Let's Do The Suzie Q
21. Smokes Like Lightning
Disc 3
1. How Many More Years I Got To Let You Dog Me Around
2. Black Cadillac
3. Walkin' This Road By Myself
4. The Devil Jumped The Black Man
5. My Baby Don't Stand No Cheating
6. You Is One Black Rat
7. The Fox Chase
8. Mojo Hand
9. Mama Blues
10. My Black Name
11. Ida Mae
12. Prison Farm Blues
13. Worried Life Blues
14. Happy Blues For John Glenn
15. Sinner's Prayer
16. Angel Child
17. I Got A Leak In This Old Building
18. Pneumonia Blues
19. Have You Ever Been Mistreated
Disc 4
1. Blues Is A Feeling
2. Me And Ray Charles
3. In The Evening
4. Ain't It Crazy
5. Last Night I Lost The Best Friend I Ever Had
6. Everything
7. I Work Down On The Chain Gang
8. Meet Me In The Bottom
9. Business You're Doin'
10. Wake Up Old Lady
11. Stranger Here
12. Don't Embarrass Me, Baby
13. Little Sister's Boogie
14. Goin' Away
15. You Better Stop Her
16. I Woke Up This Morning
17. Let's Go Sit On The Lawn
18. I Woke Up This Morning
Disc 5
1. Baby, Please Don't Go
2. My Black Cadillac
3. It's Crazy
4. Mojo Hand
5. My Babe
6. Short Haired Woman
7. Mean Old Frisco
8. Trouble In Mind
9. The Twister
10. Green Onion
11. Sun Goin' Down
12. Come Go Home With Me
13. I'm A Stranger
14. I Got Tired
15. I Like To Boogie
16. I Asked The Bossman
17. I'm Taking A Devil Of A Chance
18. Just A Wristwatch On My Arm
Disc 6
1. I Was Standing On 75 Highway
2. Get It Straight
3. I'm Going To Build Me A Heaven Of My Own
4. My Babe
5. Too Many Drivers
6. I'm A Crawling Black Snake
7. Rocky Mountain Blues
8. I Mean Goodbye
9. The Howling Wolf
10. Black Ghost Blues
11. Darling, Do You Remember Me?
12. Lonesome Graveyard
13. I Don't Want To Do Nothing To You
14. You Is One Black Rat
15. Got Nowhere To Lay My Head
16. Just Boogyin'
17. Take Me Back
18. I Was Down On Dowling Street
Disc 7
1. I Growed Up With The Blues
2. My Family
3. I Learn About The Blues
4. I First Come Into Houston
5. I Meet Texas Alexander
6. They Was Hard Times
7. I Do My First Record And Get My Name
8. My Thoughts On The Blues

Lightnin’ Hopkins was a giant of post-war blues whose innovative style was rooted in pre-war Texas traditions. A substantial portion of his body of work is available in this boxed set: 112 songs representing his complete output for the Prestige and Bluesville labels in the period between 1960 and 1964, including 13 tracks from a previously unreleased 1963 Swarthmore College concert. On about half of the material, Lightnin’ is backed by musicians such as Herbie Lovelle, Leonard Gaskin, Sonny Terry, and Belton Evans.

Also contained in the set are the interview segments of a rare Bluesville album (made in ’64) in which Lightnin’ talks freely about his childhood, his first exposure to the blues, and the like.

An illustrated 32-page booklet contains an insightful essay by Samuel Charters and complete discographical details.

Produced by Bill Belmont