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Last Of The Great Blues Singers
''Last of the Great Blues Singers'', also released as ''Vol. 1 Blues / Folk Series'', ''The Blues'' and ''Blues Train'', is a 12-inch LP album by blues musician Lightnin' Hopkins featuring tracks recorded between 1951 and 1953 that were originally released as 10-inch 78rpm records on Bob Shad's Sittin' in With label.O'Brien, T. JLightnin' Album of the Week: Week 6 – October 9, 2010accessed November 22, 2018 The album was one of the earlier collections of Lightnin' Hopkins material to be released. In 2004 a CD collection, '' Hello Central: The Best of Lightnin' Hopkins'', was released by Legacy Recordings containing all of the recordings Hopkins made for the Sittin' in With label. Reception AllMusic reviewer Bill Dahl stated: "Classic sides from Hopkins' 1950–1951 stint with Bobby Shad's Sittin' in With logo ... include two of his biggest hits, "Hello Central" and "Coffee Blues.". Track listing All compositions by Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins # "Hello Central" – 2:55 # "Coffee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lightnin' Hopkins
Samuel John "Lightnin" Hopkins (March 15, 1912 – January 30, 1982) was an American country blues singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional pianist from Centerville, Texas. In 2010, ''Rolling Stone'' magazine ranked him No. 71 on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. The musicologist Robert "Mack" McCormick opined that 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". He was a notable influence on Townes Van Zandt, Hank Williams, Jr., and a generation of blues musicians like Stevie Ray Vaughan, whose Grammy winning song "Rude Mood" was directly inspired by the Texan's song "Hopkins' Sky Hop." Life Hopkins was born in Centerville, Texas. As a child, he was immersed in the sounds of the blues. He developed a deep appreciation for the music at the age of 8, when he met Blind Lemon Jefferson at a church picnic in Buffalo, Texas.Allmusic biography/ref> He went on to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture. The blues form is ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll, and is characterized by the call-and-response pattern (the blues scale and specific chord progressions) of which the twelve-bar blues is the most common. Blue notes (or "worried notes"), usually thirds, fifths or sevenths flattened in pitch, are also an essential part of the sound. Blues shuffles or walking bass reinforce the trance-like rhythm and form a repetitive effect known as the groove. Blues as a genre is also characterized by its lyrics, bass lines, and instrumentation. Early traditional blues verses consisted of a single line repeated four times. It was only in the first decades of the 20th century that the most common current str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mainstream Records
Mainstream Records was an American record company and independent record label founded by producer Bob Shad in 1964. Mainstream's early releases were reissues from Commodore Records. Its catalogue grew to include Bob Brookmeyer, Maynard Ferguson, Jim Hall, Helen Merrill, Carmen McRae, Jimmy Raney, Zoot Sims, Clark Terry, and Sarah Vaughan. Janis Joplin, with Big Brother and the Holding Company, first appeared on Mainstream. In 1978, Mainstream ceased activities. Bob Shad died in 1985. In 1990, the label was restarted by his daughter, Tamara, and Humphrey Walwyn, the former head of BBC Records. It was bought by Legacy Recordings in 1993 and purchased back by the Shad family in the early 2000s. The label is now run by Shad's granddaughter Mia Apatow, with the help of her brother Judd Apatow. Discography 56000/S6000 series (12" LPs) The Mainstream 56000/S6000 Series commenced in 1964 when the label was established by Bob Shad and ran until 1971 and initially reissued material fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Shad
Robert "Bob" Shad (born Abraham Shadrinsky; February 12, 1920 – March 13, 1985) was an American record producer and record label owner. He produced the first album by Big Brother and the Holding Company (featuring Janis Joplin). Among his labels were Time Records, Brent Records, and Mainstream Records. Career Shad's career as a producer began with working for Herman Lubinsky at Savoy Records and Al Green at National Records in the 1940s, producing Charlie Parker in addition to blues and R&B material. He founded the first of several labels, Sittin' In With, in 1948, where he produced Lightnin' Hopkins, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Smokey Hogg, Peppermint Harris, Curley Weaver, and others. In 1951, he was named director of Artists and repertoire (A&R) at Mercury Records, where he founded the EmArcy label. On the subsidiary label he produced, among others, jazz musicians Sarah Vaughan, Maynard Ferguson, the Clifford Brown/Max Roach quintet, Billy Eckstine and Dinah Washin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lightning Hopkins Sings The Blues
''Lightning Hopkins Sings the Blues'', also released as ''Original Folk Blues'', is a 12-inch LP album by blues musician Lightnin' Hopkins collecting tracks recorded between 1947 and 1951 that were originally released as 10-inch 78rpm records on the RPM Records (United States), RPM label.O'Brien, T. JLightnin' Album of the Week: Week 23 February 5, 2011accessed November 22, 2018 The album was released on the Mainstream Records low budget, Crown Records, Crown subsidiary and was an early 12-inch LP collections of Lightnin' Hopkins material recorded at SugarHill Recording Studios, Gold Star Studios to be released. In 1999 a double CD collection of ''Jake Head Boogie'' was released containing all of the Hopkins recordings released by the RPM label along with several previously unreleased recordings. Track listing All compositions by Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins # "Just Sittin' Down Thinkin'" – 2:33 # "Jake Head Boogie" – 2:53 # "Lonesome Dog Blues" – 2:38 # "Tell Me Pretty Mama" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lightnin' And The Blues
''Lightnin' and the Blues'' is a 12-inch LP album by blues musician Lightnin' Hopkins, collecting twelve tracks recorded in 1954 that were originally released as 7-inch singles on the Herald Records Herald Records was an American record label of the 1950s and 1960s. Herald was founded in Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1952 by Fred Mendelsohn. He teamed up with Al Silver and Silver's brother-in-law, who continued Herald Records after Mendelsohn left ... label. accessed November 22, 2018 From the late 1980s, other Herald tracks began appearing on collections like ''The Herald Recordings – 1954'' and ''The Herald Recordings Vol. 2'' before a 30-track CD edition was released in 2016. Track listing All compositions by Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins # ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sittin' In With
Sittin' in With (sometimes Sittin' in) was an American jazz and blues record label run by Bob Shad. It was active from 1948 to 1952. Shad and his brother Morty founded the label in 1948 in New York City, and released swing jazz, mainstream jazz, blues, and R&B music. Shad later went on to work with Jax Records, EmArcy Records, and Mainstream Records. Artists * Ray Abrams *Chu Berry *Beryl Booker *Ray Charles * Earl Coleman * Leroy Dallas *Julian Dash *Champion Jack Dupree *Stan Getz *Wardell Gray *Big John Greer *Al Haig *John Hardee *Peppermint Harris *Smokey Hogg *Lightnin' Hopkins * Dave Lambert *Brownie McGhee * Elmore Nixon *Buddy Stewart *Arbee Stidham *Sonny Terry *Charlie Ventura *Curley Weaver * James Wayne Bibliography *Howard Rye, "Sittin' in With". '' The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz''. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld, Oxford, 2004. *“The Shad Labels,” ''Blues Research'', no.16 (n.d. 1966 Events January * January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bok ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Best Of Lightnin' Hopkins
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legacy Recordings
Legacy Recordings is an American record label that is a division of Sony Music. Formed in 1990 after Sony's acquisition of CBS Records, Legacy originally handled the archives of Sony Music-owned labels Columbia Records and Epic Records. In 2004, under the Sony BMG joint venture, the label began to manage the archives of RCA Records, J Records, Windham Hill Records, Arista, LaFace, Jive, and Buddah Records. Legacy Recordings also distributes Philadelphia International Records and the catalog of recordings produced by Phil Spector. It is not related to the defunct British independent label Legacy Records. Reissues The ''Essential'' series are one- or two-disc compilations of an artist's extensive catalog. On occasion, certain albums in this series would include a limited edition third disc (labeled ''Essential'' ''3.0''), or be revised to include an artist's newer work (for example ''The Essential Bob Dylan).'' , several volumes in the ''Essential'' series are available on vin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Guide' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Double Bass
The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or #Terminology, by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched Bow (music), bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox additions such as the octobass). Similar in structure to the cello, it has four, although occasionally five, strings. The bass is a standard member of the orchestra's string section, along with violins, viola, and cello, ''The Orchestra: A User's Manual'' , Andrew Hugill with the Philharmonia Orchestra as well as the concert band, and is featured in Double bass concerto, concertos, solo, and chamber music in European classical music, Western classical music.Alfred Planyavsky [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lightnin' Hopkins Albums
Lightning is an atmospheric discharge of electricity. Lightning or Lightnin may also refer to: Computing * Lightning (connector), a power and data bus for Apple iPhone, iPod, and iPad products * Lightning (software), an extension that adds calendar and scheduling functionality to the Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client * GNU lightning, a library for just-in-time compilation * Lightning Network, the blockchain payment protocol * Lightning, a public front end to the Salesforce.com platform Film and television * ''Lightnin (1925 film), a comedy by John Ford * ''Lightning'' (1925 film), a German silent drama film * ''Lightning'' (1927 film), an American film of 1927 * ''Lightnin (1930 film), an American Pre-Code comedy film * ''Lightning'' (1952 film), a film by Mikio Naruse * Lightning, a bloodhound in ''Racing Stripes'' * Lightning (dog), a German shepherd who appeared in various 1930s films * Lightning (''Tom and Jerry''), an orange cat in the ''Tom and Jerry'' cartoons * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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