#Lightnin' Hopkins

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The Sun's Gonna Shine (Les Blank & Skip Gerson, 1969)

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Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Olatunji, Sabicas, Lightnin' Hopkins, Modern Jazz Quartet, Carmen Amaya, Chris Connor, (handbill), Village Gate, New York, NY, early 1960s [Recordmecca]

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Lightnin' Hopkins

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Lightnin' Hopkins

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Lightnin' Hopkins *March 15, 1912

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... morning music ...

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"I didn't build this world but I sure can tear it down." ~ Lightnin' Hopkins

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R.L. Burnside played the harmonica and dabbled with playing guitar at the age of 16 learned mostly from Mississippi Fred McDowell. He credited singing at church and fife-and-drum picnics as influences in his music, along with Muddy Waters, Lightnin' Hopkins, and John Lee Hooker as influences later on in life. R.L. had a powerful, expressive voice, that did not fail with old age but rather grew richer, and he played both electric and acoustic guitar, with and without a slide. He was the grandfather to Cedric Burnside.

R.L. Burnside died September 1, 2005 in Memphis, Tennessee at the age of 78.

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Lightnin' Hopkins

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Lightnin' Hopkins - Nothin' But The Blues! 1961

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Favorite Blues Songs · Playlist

Robert Johnson · Elmore James · Howlin' Wolf · Muddy Waters · B. B. King · John Lee Hooker · Sonny Boy Williamson · Mississippi Fred McDowell · Lightnin' Hopkins · Willie Dixon · Memphis Slim · J. B. Lenoir · Blind Willie McTell · Skip James · Frank Stokes · Charley Patton, etc.

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The Sun's Gonna Shine (Les Blank & Skip Gerson, 1969)

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Lightnin' Hopkins - Long Gone Like a Turkey Through the Corn (1959) Traditional / Samuel John "Lightnin'" Hopkins from: "Country Blues" (LP)

Country Blues | Acoustic Blues | Traditional | Texas Blues

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Personnel: Lightnin' Hopkins: Vocals / Guitar

Produced by Mack McCormick

Recorded: in Houston, Texas USA on February 16 & 26, 1959

Album Released: 1959 Tradition Records

CD Reissue: 1996 Tradition Records

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U.S. Thanksgiving Day, 2023

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When asked once about what made him different than anyone else, Lightnin’ Hopkins replied, “A bluesman is just different from any other man that walks this earth. The blues is something that is hard to get acquainted with. Just like death. The blues dwell with you everyday and everywhere.”

Lightnin’ was tremendously appealing for aspiring blues guitarists to emulate because his signature turnaround was relatively easy to learn, but it was extremely hard to replicate his sound because of his distinctive held notes, pauses, string bending, and shortened and lengthened measures. Sometimes, as bluesman Michael “Hawkeye” Herman points out, Lightnin’ “played it in triplets, sometimes as a quarter note, sometimes as an eighth note…. He knew how to play the same lick/riff forward, backward, from the middle to the front, from the middle to the back, from the back to the front … each effort creating a completely huge guitar vocabulary.” Ultimately, it didn’t matter what kind of guitar he was playing, acoustic or electric. “He just had this feel,” guitarist and luthier Sam Swank maintains, echoing the sentiments of so many Lightnin’ devotees. “There aren’t that many blues guitar players in the world that when you drop the needle on the record, anybody who’s anybody knows who that is. Lightnin’ Hopkins is one of those guitar players.”

"Lightnin' Hopkins: His Life and Blues" by Alan Govenar

Listen & enjoy: Mojo Hand - Sam Lightnin' Hopkins (Live Accoustic)

Listen & enjoy: I'm Going To Build Me A Heaven Of My Own

Lightnin Hopkins-New Orleans Jazz Festival is a photograph by Diane Hocker

Cuando le preguntaron qué le hacía diferente de los demás, Lightnin' Hopkins respondió: "Un bluesman es diferente de cualquier otro hombre que camine por esta tierra. El blues es algo difícil de conocer. Como la muerte. El blues te acompaña todos los días y en todas partes.”

Lightnin' resultaba tremendamente atractivo para los aspirantes a guitarristas de blues porque su giro característico era relativamente fácil de aprender, pero resultaba extremadamente difícil reproducir su sonido debido a sus características notas sostenidas, pausas, dobleces de cuerdas y compases cortos y largos. A veces, como señala el bluesman Michael "Hawkeye" Herman, Lightnin' "lo tocaba en tresillos, a veces como una negra, a veces como una corchea….". Sabía tocar el mismo lick/riff hacia delante, hacia atrás, del centro hacia delante, del centro hacia atrás, de atrás hacia delante… cada esfuerzo creaba un vocabulario de guitarra completamente enorme". Al final, daba igual el tipo de guitarra que tocara, acústica o eléctrica. "Simplemente tenía ese toque", afirma el guitarrista y luthier Sam Swank, haciéndose eco de los sentimientos de tantos devotos de Lightnin'. "No hay tantos guitarristas de blues en el mundo que, cuando sueltas la aguja del disco, cualquiera sabe de quién se trata. Lightnin' Hopkins es uno de esos guitarristas".

"Lightnin' Hopkins: su vida y su blues", de Alan Govenar

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Lightnin' Hopkins par Raeburn 'Ray' Flerlage, 1960s.

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Lightnin' Hopkins   † January 30, 1982