Lightnin' Hopkins - The Acoustic Years 1959-1960 (4 CD, 2013/FLAC)


 Although he had cut sides with the Aladdin, Modern, RPM, Gold Star, Jax, Mercury, and Decca labels in the 1940s and early '50s, Lightnin' Hopkins was back in his home base of Houston, Texas by 1959, all but forgotten. There he was rediscovered by folklorist Mack McCormick, who shifted Hopkins' image to that of an acoustic folk-blues performer, essentially igniting the flame for the rest of Hopkins' career. This four-disc set collects the acoustic sides the bluesman cut in his new incarnation (really just the same old Lightnin' with a slightly different marketing plan) in 1959 and 1960.





 

 

CD A

1. Penitentiary Blues                  02:54
 2. Bad Luck and Trouble                03:47
 3. Come Go Home with Me                03:52
 4. Trouble Stay Way from My Door       04:06
 5. See That My Grave Is Kept Clean     02:08
 6. Goin' Back to Florida               03:10
 7. Reminiscences of Blind Lemon        02:11
 8. Fan It                              02:43
 9. Tell Me Baby                        02:32
10. She's Mine                          04:15
11. Til the Gin Gets Here               01:02
12. So Long Baby                        01:47
13. Bunion Stew                         01:55
14. You Got to Work to Get Your Pay     02:30
15. Go Down Ol' Hannah                  03:30
16. Santa Fe Blues                      03:10
17. Hear M Black Dog Bark               03:48
18. Long Time                           01:36
19. Rainy Day Blues                     03:06
20. Worryin' My Mind                    03:26
21. Baby!                               03:05
22. Long Gone Like a Turkey Through the Corn 03:41
23. See See Rider                       03:10
24. Prison Blues Come Down On Me        03:24

CD B

1. That Mean Old Twister (Backwater Blues) 02:46
2. Gonna Pull a Party                  03:38
3. Bluebird Bluebird                   01:26
4. Get Off My Toe                      04:59
5. Short Haired Woman                  03:38
6. Mama and Papa Hopkins               04:43
7. When the Saints Go Marching In      02:44
8. The Foot Race Is On                 04:13
9. Bottle Up and Go                    02:42
10. That Bambling Life                  03:42
11. 75 Highway                          04:52
12. Trouble in Mind                     04:11
13. First Meeting                       02:53
14. First Meeting                       07:08
15. How Long Have It Been Since You Been Home 04:09
16. Big Black Cadillac Blues            06:58
17. Coffee House Blues                  02:02
18. Stool Pigeon Blues                  02:59
19. Ball of Twine                       03:20

CD C

1. Rocky Mountain                      04:58
2. Go to Move Your Baby                04:01
3. So Sorry to Leave You               04:19
4. Take a Trip with Me                 05:05
5. Last Night Blues                    05:15
6. Lightnin's Stroke                   04:54
7. Hard to Love a Woman                04:00
8. Conversation Blues                  03:50
9. Automoblie Blues                    04:31
10. You Better Watch Yourself           04:57
11. Mean Old Frisco                     03:40
12. Shinin' Moon                        04:06
13. Come Back Baby                      03:26
14. Thinkin' Bout an Old Friend         05:05
15. The Walkin' Blues                   03:22
16. Back to New Orleans                 03:19
17. Katie Mae                           04:01

CD D

1. Down There Baby                     04:07
2. Rainy Highway                       03:09
3. When My First Wife Quit Me          03:25
4. Walk On                             04:30
5. Lightnin's Guitar Boogie            04:04
6. I've Had My Fun If I Don't Get Well No More 03:56
7. Mister Charlie                      07:30
8. Mighty Crazy                        07:07
9. Wonder Why                          06:15
10. Black Cat                           06:25
11. The Trouble Blues                   04:43
12. Your Own Fault, Baby, to Treat Me the Way You Do 04:46
13. Lightnin's Piano Boogie             02:30
14. Take It Easy                        06:18
15. Come Go Home with Me                03:31