Lightnin' Hopkins - 1991 - Complete Prestige Bluesville Recordin

Lightnin' Hopkins - 1991 - Complete Prestige Bluesville Recordings

This is a seven-CD box set that repackages all 11 LPs that Lightnin' Hopkins recorded for Bluesville and Prestige during the first half of the 1960s: Last Night Blues, Lightnin', Blues in My Bottle, Walkin' This Road By Myself, Lightnin' and Co., Smokes Like Lightning, Hootin' the Blues, Goin' Away, Down Home Blues, Soul Blues and My Life in the Blues. The very prolific Hopkins (who was never loyal to any one label) also recorded for Candid, Arhoolie, Fire and Vee Jay during the period! The bulk of My Life in the Blues is actually a lengthy and rather historic interview that Samuel Charters conducted with Hopkins. A special bonus of the set is 13 often exciting tracks from a previously unissued concert at the Swarthmore College Folk Festival. The music throughout the box covers quite a variety of moods and subject matter (with Hopkins being unaccompanied on 34 of the tracks) and definitively sums up the veteran bluesman's later period. (AllMusic)

CD 1
01 - Rocky Mountain
02 - Got To Move Your Baby
03 - So Sorry To Leave You
04 - Take A Trip With Me
05 - Last Night Blues
06 - Lightnin's Stroke
07 - Hard To Love A Woman
08 - Conversation Blues
09 - Automobile Blues
10 - You Better Watch Yourself
11 - Mean Old Frisco
12 - Shinin' Moon
13 - Come Back Baby
14 - Thinkin' 'Bout An Old Friend
15 - The Walkin' Blues
16 - Back To New Orleans
17 - Katie Mae
18 - Down There Baby
CD 2
01 - Black Gal
02 - Baby Don't You Tear My Clothes
03 - Good Morning Little School Girl
04 - Coffee Blues
05 - Buddy Brown's Blues (98 Degree Blues)
06 - Wine Spodee-O-Dee
07 - Sail on, Little Girl, Sail on
08 - DC-7
09 - Death Bells
10 - Goin' To Dallas To See My Pony Run
11 - Jailhouse Blues
12 - Blues In The Bottle
13 - Beans, Beans, Beans
14 - Catfish Blues
15 - My Grandpa Is Old Too!
16 - T Model Blues
17 - Jackstropper Blues
18 - You Cook All Right
19 - You Never Miss Your Water
20 - Let's Do The Suzie Q
21 - Smokes Like Lightning
CD 3
01 - How Many More Years I Got To Let You Dog Me Around
02 - Black Cadillac
03 - Walkin' This Road By Myself
04 - The Devil Jumped The Black Man
05 - My Baby Don't Stand No Cheating
06 - You Is One Black Rat
07 - The Fox Chase
08 - Mojo Hand
09 - Mama Blues
10 - My Black Name
11 - Ida Mae
12 - Prison Farm Blues
13 - Worried Life Blues
14 - Happy Blues For John Glenn
15 - Sinner's Prayer
16 - Angel Child
17 - I Got A Leak In This Old Building
18 - Pneumonia Blues
19 - Have You Ever Been Mistreated
CD 4
01 - Blues Is A Feeling
02 - Me And Ray Charles
03 - In The Evening
04 - Ain't It Crazy
05 - Last Night I Lost The Best Friend I Ever Had
06 - Everything
07 - I Work Down On The Chain Gang
08 - Meet Me In The Bottom
09 - Business You're Doin'
10 - Wake Up Old Lady
11 - Stranger Here
12 - Don't Embarrass Me, Baby
13 - Little Sister's Boogie
14 - Goin' Away
15 - You Better Stop Her
16 - I'm Wit' It
17 - Let's Go Sit On The Lawn
18 - I Woke Up This Morning
CD 5
01 - Baby, Please Don't Go [#]
02 - My Black Cadillac [#]
03 - It's Crazy [#]
04 - Mojo Hand [#]
05 - My Babe [#]
06 - Short Haired Woman [#]
07 - Mean Old Frisco [#]
08 - Trouble In Mind [#]
09 - The Twister [#]
10 - Green Onion [#]
11 - Sun Goin' Down [#]
12 - Come Go Home With Me [#]
13 - I'm A Stranger [#]
14 - I Got Tired
15 - I Like To Boogie
16 - I Asked The Bossman
17 - I'm Taking A Devil Of A Chance
18 - Just A Wristwatch On My Arm
CD 6
01 - I Was Standing On 75 Highway
02 - Get It Straight
03 - I'm Going To Build Me A Heaven Of My Own
04 - My Babe
05 - Too Many Drivers
06 - I'm A Crawling Black Snake
07 - Rocky Mountain Blues
08 - I Mean Goodbye
09 - The Howling Wolf
10 - Black Ghost Blues
11 - Darling, Do You Remember Me
12 - Lonesome Graveyard
13 - I Don't Want To Do Nothing To You
14 - You Is One Black Rat
15 - Got Nowhere To Lay My Head
16 - Just Boogyin'
17 - Take Me Back
18 - I Was Down On Dowling Street
CD 7
01 - I Growed Up With The Blues
02 - My Family
03 - I Learn About The Blues
04 - I First Come Into Houston
05 - I Meet Texas Alexander
06 - They Was Hard Times
07 - I Do My First Record And Get My Name
08 - My Thoughts On The Blues

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