''Lightnin' Strikes'' (reissued as ''Nothin' But the Blues'') is an album by blues musician

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 li ...

recorded in Los Angeles in 1965 and released on the

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Reception

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, writing for

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, described a later compilation featuring the entire album as an "interesting collection" and opined, "For a hodgepodge of leftovers, there's a lot of great Lightnin' on here."

Track listing

All compositions by Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins # "Mojo Hand" – 3:13 # "Little Wail" – 2:50 # "Cotton" – 5:57 # "Take Me Back" – 2:55 # "Nothin' But the Blues" – 5:15 # "Hurricane Betsy" – 5:45 # "Guitar Lightnin'" – 4:12 # "Woke Up This Morning" – 4:20 # "Shake Yourself" – 4:15

Personnel

Performance

– electric guitar, vocals *Don Crawford – harmonica * Jimmy Bond –

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– drums

References

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