Lightnin Hopkins - Lightnin & The Blues: The Herald Sessions
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Artist: Lightnin HopkinsEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2001-04-17
Music Label: Buddha
Soundtracks:
- Nothin' But The Blues
- Don't Think Cause You're Pretty
- Lightnin's Boogie
- Life I Used To Live
- Sick Feelin' Blues
- Evil Hearted Woman
- Blues For My Cookie
- Sittin' Down Thinkin'
- My Baby's Gone
- Lonesome In Your Home
- Lightnin's Special
- My Little Kewpie Doll
- Shine On Moon
- Had A Gal Called Sal
- Remember Me
- Moving On Out Boogie
Free Music Notes for Lightnin & The Blues: The Herald Sessions
Free Music Review: Deep Country Blues Collides Head On With Proto-Rock & Roll
Hit: 5 Stars
I'm of the opinion that Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins never cut a bad record. Even throughout the folk boom of the `60s and his declining years in the `70s, his music was always imbued with humor, honesty and dizzying displays of creativity.
But if you want to hear the cream of the crop, you have to look to his first decade of work - from the mid-1940s to the mid-1950s. During this period he jumped from strength to strength, just as he jumped from label to label. He cut great records for Alladin, Gold Star, Modern, RPM, Sittin' In With, Jax, Mercury, Decca and more.
Yet the high water mark may have come in 1954 when Hopkins cut a batch of blistering sides for Herald Records.
More than a half-century on, these cuts still bristle with energy and power. Playing heavily amplified electric guitar, Hopkins is joined by drummer Ben Turner and bassist Donald Cooks. Together the trio manages to mash country blues headlong into proto-rock & roll in a way that never sounds forced. Similar experiments were tried with Fred McDowell and Bukka White in the late 1960s and the results were spotty. But here everything works. Hopkins plays and sings with a confident swagger and his bandmates valiantly hang on for the ride, managing to play with - not merely near - their mercurial leader.
Hopkins made stacks of great records, but these just might be his greatest.
NOTE: In total, Hopkins cut 26 sides for Herald. Many were not released at the time. The material, or bits of it, have been issued and reissued many times. The single-disc Lightnin' and the Blues: The Herald Sessions (released on Buddha Records in 2001) collects 16 of the best from this period and present them in sterling sound.
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