Lightnin' HOPKINS - How Many More Years I Got 1961
Label: Fantasy
Release Date: September 26, 2006
Blues
This album put blues in most finished yet raw feel of the Mississippi Blues. Lightnin Hopkins is pure and he has a way of you feel you are sitting right next to him, while he is sing of making money from a fox hunt. Thank you amazon for keeping the bolt of Lightnin alive.
By Davis G.
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Lightnin' Hopkins' fast finger style is very distinct, a style which often included playing, in effect, bass, rhythm, lead, percussion, and vocals, all at the same time. His musical phrasing would often include a long low note at the beginning, the rhythm played in the middle range, then the lead in the high range. By playing this quickly, with occasional slaps of the guitar, the effect of bass, rhythm, percussion & lead would be created. It is said his style was born from spending many hours playing informally without a backing band. He had an incredible knack for writing songs impromptu, and frequently wove myths and legends around a core of truth. His songs were often autobiographical, making him a spokesperson for the southern black community that had no voice in the white mainstream until blues attained a broader popularity through white singers like Elvis.
QUOTE ... Indeed, Hopkins had a bag of licks and patterns that fit largely into two divisions -- slow E and Fast E (with an occasional venture into A). His rhythm and the chord changes go with his feelings at that moment in time and, as such, made it difficult for other musicians to follow. With a few exceptions, his solo recordings later in his life have that quirky sense to them and work well as opposed to hired bands that became hopelessly entangled, to quote a Hopkins song, "like a ball of twine."
By Brian Robertson.
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Lightnin' Hopkins- (Vocals, Guitar);
Billy Bizor- (Vocals, Harmonica);
Buster Pickens- (Piano);
Donald Cooks- (Bass);
Spider Kilpatrick- (Drums).
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01. How Many More Years I Got 2:59
02. Walkin' This Road By Myself 4:50
03. The Devil Jumped The Black Man 4:11
04. My Baby Don't Stand No Cheatin' 2:05
05. Black Cadillac 3:38
06. You Is One Black Rat 2:29
07. The Fox Chase 3:18
08. Mojo Hand 3:20
09. Mama Blues 5:15
10. My Black Name 3:58
11. Prison Farm Blues 4:32
12. Ida Mae 5:27
13. I Got A Leak In This Old Building 5:19
14. Happy Blues For John Glenn 5:21
15. Worried Life Blues 2:54
16. Sinner's Prayer 3:45
17. Angel Child 3:33
18. Pneumonia Blues Sam 3:30
19. Have You Ever Been Mistreated 4:04
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