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
