Lightnin' Hopkins

Da Sam John Hopkins, bessa bekannt ois Lightnin' Hopkins (* 15. Meaz 1912 z Centerville, Texas; † 30. Jenna 1982 z Houston, Texas) wor a amerikanischa Blues-Senga -Gitarrist und -Komponist. Es Rolling Stone Magazin hod in Hopkins ois Nummara 71 af da Listn vo de 100 gresstn Gitarristn vo oin Zeidn afgnumma.

Da Robert "Mack" McCormick hod iba eam gsogt, "Hopkins is the embodiment of the jazz-and-poetry spirit, representing its ancient form in the single creator whose words and music are one act". (boarisch: "Da Hopkins is de Vakeaparung vom Geist vo Jazz-und-Lyrik, de oide Form vom ganzheidlichn Schepfa, wo Wort und Musi aus oan Guss san.")

1980 is da Lightnin' Hopkins in de Blues Hall of Fame afgnumma worn.

Diskographie (Auszug)

• 1959 - Lightnin' Hopkins Strums the Blues (Score)
• 1959 - Lightnin' Hopkins (Folkways)
• 1959 - Lightnin' and the Blues (Herald)
• 1960 - Country Blues (Tradition Records)
• 1960 - Last Night Blues (Bluesville Records)
• 1960 - Mojo Hand (Fire Records)
• 1960 - Lightnin' (Bluesville)
• 1960 - Lightnin' In New York (Candid Records)
• 1961 - Autobiography in Blues (Tradition)
• 1961 - Blues in My Bottle (Bluesville)
• 1962 - Walkin' This Road By Myself (Bluesville)
• 1962 - Lightnin' and Co. (Bluesville)
• 1962 - Lightnin' Strikes (Vee-Jay Records)
• 1963 - Blues Hoot (Vee-Jay Records; live at The Ash Grove 1961 with Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, and Big Joe Williams)
• 1963 - Smokes Like Lightnin' (Bluesville)
• 1963 - Goin' Away (Bluesville)
• 1964 - Down Home Blues (Bluesville)
• 1965 - Hootin' the Blues (Bluesville)
• 1965 - Lightnin' Strikes (Tradition)
• 1965 - The Roots of Lightnin' Hopkins (Verve Folkways)
• 1966 - Soul Blues (Bluesville)
• 1967 - My Life in the Blues (Bluesville)
• 1967 - Original Folk Blues (Kent Records)
• 1967 - Lightnin'! (Arhoolie Records)
• 1968 - Freeform Patterns (International Artists)
• 1969 - California Mudslide (and Earthquake)
• 1971 - Dirty Blues
• 1991 - Swarthmore Concert Live, 1964
• 1991 - Sittin' in with Lightnin' Hopkins (Mainstream Records)
• 1991 - The Hopkins Bros. (Arhoolie Records, with his brothers Joel and John Henry)
• 1992 - Lonesome Life (Home Cooking/Collectables)
• 1992 - It's a Sin to Be Rich (Gitanes Jazz Productions)
• 1993 - Mojo Hand: The Lightnin' Hopkins Anthology (Rhino Records)
• 1995 - Po' Lightning
• 1999 - The Very Best of Lightnin' Hopkins

Literatua

• Alan Govenar: Lightnin’ Hopkins: His Life and Blues. Chicago Review Press, 2010, ISBN 9781556529627 (Eingeschränkte Vorschau in da Google Buachsuach).
• Jörg Sommermeyer: Sam "Lightnin" Hopkins (15.3.1912-31.1.1982). Gitarre & Laute IV/1982, Heft3, S. 131 f.

Im Netz

• Hopkins Lightnin' Hopkins ba Discogs (englisch)
• Sam (Lightnin') Hopkins bei BluesSource.de
• The Blues According To Lightning Hopkins