Lightnin Hopkins - The Acoustic Years 1959-1960 (2013) MP3@320kbps Beolab1700

Lightnin Hopkins - The Acoustic Years 1959-1960 (2013) MP3@320kbps Beolab1700



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Lightnin' Hopkins - The Acoustic Years 1959-1960
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Artist...............: Lightnin' Hopkins
Album................: The Acoustic Years 1959-1960
Genre................: Blues
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 2013
Ripper...............: EAC (Secure mode) / LAME 3.92 & Asus CD-S520
Codec................: LAME 3.99
Version..............: MPEG 1 Layer III
Quality..............: Insane, (avg. bitrate: 320kbps)
Channels.............: Joint Stereo / 44100 hz
Tags.................: ID3 v1.1, ID3 v2.3
Information..........:

Posted by............: Beolab1700 on 28/10/2013


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Tracklisting
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1. Lightnin' Hopkins - Penitentiary Blues [02:54]
2. Lightnin' Hopkins - Bad Luck and Trouble [03:47]
3. Lightnin' Hopkins - Come Go Home with Me [03:52]
4. Lightnin' Hopkins - Trouble Stay Way from My Door [04:06]
5. Lightnin' Hopkins - See That My Grave Is Kept Clean [02:08]
6. Lightnin' Hopkins - Goin' Back to Florida [03:10]
7. Lightnin' Hopkins - Reminiscences of Blind Lemon [02:11]
8. Lightnin' Hopkins - Fan It [02:43]
9. Lightnin' Hopkins - Tell Me Baby [02:32]
10. Lightnin' Hopkins - She's Mine [04:15]
11. Lightnin' Hopkins - Til the Gin Gets Here [01:02]
12. Lightnin' Hopkins - So Long Baby [01:47]
13. Lightnin' Hopkins - Bunion Stew [01:55]
14. Lightnin' Hopkins - You Got to Work to Get Your Pay [02:30]
15. Lightnin' Hopkins - Go Down Ol' Hannah [03:30]
16. Lightnin' Hopkins - Santa Fe Blues [03:10]
17. Lightnin' Hopkins - Hear M Black Dog Bark [03:48]
18. Lightnin' Hopkins - Long Time [01:36]
19. Lightnin' Hopkins - Rainy Day Blues [03:06]
20. Lightnin' Hopkins - Worryin' My Mind [03:26]
21. Lightnin' Hopkins - Baby! [03:05]
22. Lightnin' Hopkins - Long Gone Like a Turkey Through the Corn[03:41]
23. Lightnin' Hopkins - See See Rider [03:10]
24. Lightnin' Hopkins - Prison Blues Come Down On Me [03:24]

Playing Time.........: 01:10:57
Total Size...........: 167.43 MB

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1. Lightnin' Hopkins - That Mean Old Twister (Backwater Blues)[02:46]
2. Lightnin' Hopkins - Gonna Pull a Party [03:38]
3. Lightnin' Hopkins - Bluebird Bluebird [01:26]
4. Lightnin' Hopkins - Get Off My Toe [04:59]
5. Lightnin' Hopkins - Short Haired Woman [03:38]
6. Lightnin' Hopkins - Mama and Papa Hopkins [04:43]
7. Lightnin' Hopkins - When the Saints Go Marching In [02:44]
8. Lightnin' Hopkins - The Foot Race Is On [04:13]
9. Lightnin' Hopkins - Bottle Up and Go [02:42]
10. Lightnin' Hopkins - That Bambling Life [03:42]
11. Lightnin' Hopkins - 75 Highway [04:52]
12. Lightnin' Hopkins - Trouble in Mind [04:11]
13. Lightnin' Hopkins - First Meeting [02:53]
14. Lightnin' Hopkins - First Meeting [07:08]
15. Lightnin' Hopkins - How Long Have It Been Since You Been Home[04:09]
16. Lightnin' Hopkins - Big Black Cadillac Blues [06:58]
17. Lightnin' Hopkins - Coffee House Blues [02:02]
18. Lightnin' Hopkins - Stool Pigeon Blues [02:59]
19. Lightnin' Hopkins - Ball of Twine [03:20]

Playing Time.........: 01:13:10
Total Size...........: 171.43 MB

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1. Lightnin' Hopkins - Rocky Mountain [04:58]
2. Lightnin' Hopkins - Go to Move Your Baby [04:01]
3. Lightnin' Hopkins - So Sorry to Leave You [04:19]
4. Lightnin' Hopkins - Take a Trip with Me [05:05]
5. Lightnin' Hopkins - Last Night Blues [05:15]
6. Lightnin' Hopkins - Lightnin's Stroke [04:54]
7. Lightnin' Hopkins - Hard to Love a Woman [04:00]
8. Lightnin' Hopkins - Conversation Blues [03:50]
9. Lightnin' Hopkins - Automoblie Blues [04:31]
10. Lightnin' Hopkins - You Better Watch Yourself [04:57]
11. Lightnin' Hopkins - Mean Old Frisco [03:40]
12. Lightnin' Hopkins - Shinin' Moon [04:06]
13. Lightnin' Hopkins - Come Back Baby [03:26]
14. Lightnin' Hopkins - Thinkin' Bout an Old Friend [05:05]
15. Lightnin' Hopkins - The Walkin' Blues [03:22]
16. Lightnin' Hopkins - Back to New Orleans [03:19]
17. Lightnin' Hopkins - Katie Mae [04:01]

Playing Time.........: 01:12:56
Total Size...........: 170.30 MB

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1. Lightnin' Hopkins - Down There Baby [04:07]
2. Lightnin' Hopkins - Rainy Highway [03:09]
3. Lightnin' Hopkins - When My First Wife Quit Me [03:25]
4. Lightnin' Hopkins - Walk On [04:30]
5. Lightnin' Hopkins - Lightnin's Guitar Boogie [04:04]
6. Lightnin' Hopkins - I've Had My Fun If I Don't Get Well No More[03:56]
7. Lightnin' Hopkins - Mister Charlie [07:30]
8. Lightnin' Hopkins - Mighty Crazy [07:07]
9. Lightnin' Hopkins - Wonder Why [06:15]
10. Lightnin' Hopkins - Black Cat [06:25]
11. Lightnin' Hopkins - The Trouble Blues [04:43]
12. Lightnin' Hopkins - Your Own Fault, Baby, to Treat Me the Way You Do[04:46]
13. Lightnin' Hopkins - Lightnin's Piano Boogie [02:30]
14. Lightnin' Hopkins - Take It Easy [06:18]
15. Lightnin' Hopkins - Come Go Home with Me [03:31]

Playing Time.........: 01:12:24
Total Size...........: 168.69 MB


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Although he had cut sides with the Aladdin, Modern, RPM, Gold Star, Jax, Mercury, and Decca labels in the 1940s and early ’50s, Lightnin’ Hopkins was back in his home base of Houston, Texas by 1959, all but forgotten.
There he was rediscovered by folklorist Mack McCormick, who shifted Hopkins’ image to that of an acoustic folk-blues performer, essentially igniting the flame for the rest of Hopkins’ career.
The Acoustic Years 1959-1960 is the third box set from JSP covering Hopkins extensive recording career. The previous two sets – All The Classic Sides 1946-51 and Vol 2 1946-56 – cover his early years when he became one of the most successful blues artists of his time. By 1959, where this selection picks up the story, Lightnin’s day seems to have come and gone. He had not recorded for some three years as changing tastes (fuelled by the rise of rock and roll) and Lightnin’s unwillingness or inability to adapt to them, had led to a serious fall from favour.

Salvation came in the form of Sam Charters and the belief that the burgeoning acoustic folk movement might just offer some potential for bluesmen looking for a new audience. So Sam tracks Lightnin’ down in Houston, Texas and, after getting him a guitar, new strings and whiskey, they return to Lightnin’s home and knock out a few numbers into Charters tape recorder. And the rest, as they say, is history, as these Charters sessions become his ‘rediscovery’ album for Folkways and Lightnin’ is back in demand as both a recording artist and as a live draw (though his unwillingness to travel, certainly fly, limited his scope somewhat both for recording and playing).

The first 10 tracks on this super new set are these ‘rediscovery’ recordings. The rest of the sides contained on these 4CDs pull together for the first time the subsequent recordings made in the immediate aftermath of the ‘rediscovery’. And for this we should be grateful to JSP and compiler Neil Slaven, demonstrating as they do Lightnin’s singular commitment to his own personalised style of music. He was seemingly indifferent to trends or ideas of progress and development. Lightnin’ just played what he felt when he felt it (and when the money was right). Probably the best sides here are the many where he appears solo; the sides with musical collaborators, even of the calibre of Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, held no real appeal to Lightnin’ as this necessitated some kind of compromise and planning. Not really playing to the strengths of such an instinctive player as our Sam.

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