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Lightnin'!
''Lightnin'!'' is an album by the blues musician Lightnin' Hopkins recorded in California in 1969 and released on the Poppy label as a double LP. Copyright dispute Poppy Records failed to meet the terms of its agreement and, in 1972, Chris Strachwitz released five of the tracks on his Arhoolie label as '' Lightning Hopkins in Berkeley''. In 1977, the album was reissued on Tomato Records and a legal dispute ensued. By 1982, a California court ruled that all rights should revert to Hopkins, and Strachwitz released another eight tracks from the sessions on Arhoolie as '' Po' Lightnin''' in 1983.Wirz' American Music: Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins discography
accessed November 14, 2018

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Po' Lightnin'
''Po' Lightnin is an album by blues musician Lightnin' Hopkins recorded in California in 1969 (with two tracks from 1961) and originally released on the Arhoolie label in 1983. The original LP featured tracks which were first released as ''Lightnin'!'' by Poppy Records in 1969. The label failed to meet the terms of its agreement and a legal dispute ensued. By 1982, a California court ruled that all rights should revert to Hopkins, and Strachwitz released eight tracks from the sessions, along with two unreleased tracks from the 1961 ''Lightnin' Sam Hopkins'' sessions on Arhoolie as ''Po' Lightnin' '' in 1983.Wirz' American Music: Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins discography
accessed November 14, 2018

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Lightning Hopkins In Berkeley
''Lightning Hopkins in Berkeley'' is an album by blues musician Lightnin' Hopkins recorded in California in 1969 and originally released on the Arhoolie label in 1972.Discogs: album details
accessed November 13, 2018 The original LP featured one side of previously unreleased recordings and the other six track which were originally released on ''''.


Track listing

All compositions by Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins # "Please Settle in Vietnam" – 4:15 # "Up on Telegraph (Avenue)" – 3:14 # "Wipe Your Feet on the Floor" – 2:38 # "Send My Child Home to Me" – 4:12 # "Selling Wine" – 3:08 # "Brand New Look" – 3:16 # "Have You Ever Loved a Woman" – 4:22 Originally r ...
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In The Key Of Lightnin'
''In the Key of Lightnin is an album by blues musician Lightnin' Hopkins, recorded at the sessions that produced ''Lightnin'!'' in California in 1969, but not released until 2002 on the Tomato label.Discogs: ''In the Key of Lightnin' '' album details
Discogs.com, accessed November 22, 2018


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said: "''In the Key of Lightnin contains unissued material from the Poppy sessions with the full band on "What'd I Say" and "Katie May". Five tracks are snatches of inconsequential talking".


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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 ...
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California Mudslide (and Earthquake)
''California Mudslide (and Earthquake)'', also reissued as ''Los Angeles Blues'', is an album by the blues musician Lightnin' Hopkins, recorded in California in 1969 and released on the Vault label.Both Sides Now: Vault Album Discography
accessed November 13, 2018


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's Steve Legget called a CD compilation of the tracks "a pretty decent record," writing: "Sometimes you can just grab a handful of stuff and throw it at the wall and it magically sticks there in a pleasing pattern. One suspects that's the case here". ''

Johnny "Big Moose" Walker
Johnny "Big Moose" Walker (June 27, 1927 November 27, 1999) was an American Chicago blues and electric blues pianist and organist. He worked with many blues musicians, including Ike Turner, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Lowell Fulson, Choker Campbell, Elmore James, Earl Hooker, Muddy Waters, Otis Spann, Sunnyland Slim, Jimmy Dawkins and Son Seals. Walker was primarily a piano player but was also proficient on the electronic organ and the bass guitar (he played the bass guitar when backing Muddy Waters). He recorded solo albums and accompanied other musicians in concert and on recordings. Life and career John Mayon Walker was born in the unincorporated community of Stoneville, Mississippi, partly of Native American ancestry. He acquired his best-known stage name in his childhood in Greenville, Mississippi, derived from his long, flowing hair. He learned to play several instruments, including the church organ, guitar, vibraphone and tuba. He began his musical career as a pianist, in ...
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Francis Clay
Francis Clay (November 16, 1923 – January 21, 2008) was an American jazz and blues drummer, best known for his work behind Muddy Waters in the 1950s and 1960s, and as an original member of the James Cotton band. Clay's jazz-influenced style is cited as an influence by many of the British Invasion rock 'n' rollers of the 1960s such as Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood of the Rolling Stones and Faces (band), Faces, respectively. Born and raised in Rock Island, Illinois, Rock Island, Illinois, he started playing jazz, professionally at the age of 15, played drums behind many of the biggest names of 20th century popular American music. In his career, Clay claimed to have backed Gypsy Rose Lee, and played with Jay McShann and Charlie Parker early on and with Jimi Hendrix while in New York's Greenwich Village. He can be heard on recordings including John Lee Hooker's ''Live at the Cafe Au Go-Go'' and can be seen and heard on documents from the Waters band's 1960 Newport Jazz Festival ap ...
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Ray Charles
Ray Charles Robinson Sr. (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004) was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. He is regarded as one of the most iconic and influential singers in history, and was often referred to by contemporaries as "The Genius". Among friends and fellow musicians he preferred being called "Brother Ray". Charles was blinded during childhood, possibly due to glaucoma. Charles pioneered the soul music genre during the 1950s by combining blues, jazz, rhythm and blues, and gospel styles into the music he recorded for Atlantic Records. He contributed to the integration of country music, rhythm and blues, and pop music during the 1960s with his crossover success on ABC Records, notably with his two ''Modern Sounds'' albums. While he was with ABC, Charles became one of the first black musicians to be granted artistic control by a mainstream record company. Charles's 1960 hit "Georgia On My Mind" was the first of his three career No. 1 hits on the ''Billboard'' ...
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1969 Albums
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Lightnin' Hopkins Albums
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Electric Organ
An electric organ, also known as electronic organ, is an electronic keyboard instrument which was derived from the harmonium, pipe organ and theatre organ. Originally designed to imitate their sound, or orchestral sounds, it has since developed into several types of instruments: * Hammond-style organs used in pop, rock and jazz; * digital church organs, which imitate pipe organs and are used primarily in churches; * other types including combo organs, home organs, and software organs. History Predecessors ;Harmonium The immediate predecessor of the electronic organ was the harmonium, or reed organ, an instrument that was common in homes and small churches in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In a fashion not totally unlike that of pipe organs, reed organs generate sound by forcing air over a set of reeds by means of a bellows, usually operated by constantly pumping a set of pedals. While reed organs have limited tonal quality, they are small, inexpensive, self-po ...
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Texas Blues Man
''Texas Blues Man'' is an album by the blues musician Lightnin' Hopkins, recorded in Texas in late 1967 and released on the Arhoolie label.Down-Home Music: The Story of Arhoolie Records
accessed November 12, 2018


Reception

'''' wrote that the album contains "powerful performances with a resonant electric guitar filling the studio," but that "it was no more than an average Hopkins album."


Track listing

All compositions by Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins # "Tom Moore Blues" – 5:01 # "Watch My Fingers" – 2:48 # "Little Antoinett ...
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