CD Details
- Number of Discs: 4
- Released: March 14, 2006
- Originally Released: 2001
- Label: Collectables Records
Description by OLDIES.com:
This four-disc, sixty-three track collection is comprised of four original albums of material from Lightnin' Hopkins originally recorded for Everest Records.
Tracks on Disc 1:
- 1.Big Black Cadillac Blues
- 2.Early In The Mornin' Blues
- 3.Coffee House Blues
- 4.I've Been Buked And Scorned
- 5.Stool Pidgeon
- 6.Brand New Car
- 7.Drinkin' In The Blues
- 8.Shining Moon
- 9.Ball Of Twine
- 10.Fugitive Blues
- 11.G String Blues
- 12.Grandma Told Grandpa
- 13.Rain
- 14.Goin' To Dallas
- 15.Last Night
- 16.Shake It Baby
Tracks on Disc 2:
- 1.Keep Movin' On
- 2.That's My Story
- 3.Dillon's Store
- 4.Long Time
- 5.Rainy Day Blues
- 6.Baby!
- 7.Long Gone Like A Turkey
- 8.Goin' Back Home
- 9.Prison Blues Come Down On Me
- 10.Backwater Blues
- 11.Gonna Pull A Party
- 12.Bluebird Bluebird
- 13.See See Rider
- 14.Worrying My Mind
- 15.Til The Gin Gets Here
- 16.Good Times
Tracks on Disc 3:
- 1.Bunion Stew
- 2.You Got To Work To Get Your Pay
- 3.Go Down Old Hannah
- 4.Hear My Black Dog Bark
- 5.In The Evening, The Sun Is Going Down
- 6.Trouble In Mind
- 7.Mama And Papa Hopkins
- 8.What Did I Say
- 9.Foot Race Is On
- 10.That Gambling Life
- 11.When The Saints Go Marching In
- 12.Get Off My Toe
- 13.75 Highway
- 14.Bottle Up And Go
- 15.Short Haired Woman
- 16.Don't Wake Me
Tracks on Disc 4:
- 1.So Long Baby
- 2.Santa Fe Blues
- 3.Mojo Hand
- 4.Little Waif
- 5.Cotton
- 6.Take Me Back
- 7.Nothin' But The Blues
- 8.Hurricane Betsy
- 9.Guitar Lightnin'
- 10.Woke Up This Morning
- 11.Shake Yourself
- 12.Big Car Blues
- 13.Shaggy Dog
- 14.I'll Be Gone
- 15.Talk Of The Town
Product Description:
Liner Note Author: Kerry Kudlacek.
The Collectables reissue label is responsible for more than 15 entries to the 21st century Lightnin' Hopkins digital discography. These include a Hopkins sampler simply titled Blues; two volumes devoted to the high voltage Herald recordings of 1954; The Lost Texas Tapes (a sizeable archive of privately recorded material spread over five discs), and two compilations combining four albums from the mid-'60s originally issued on LPs as part of the Everest Archive of Folk series. The Everest recordings were premiered on CD in 1990 as the Golden Classics set; this same collection reappeared with the more specific title From the Vaults of Everest in 2001. The albums, originally titled Drinkin' in the Blues, Prison Blues, Mama and Papa Hopkins and Nothin' But the Blues, add up to 63 choice cuts, both solo and ensemble, recorded in the studio and live in coffeehouses. Lightnin' strikes deep into the root strata of the tradition with "See See Rider," "Trouble in Mind" (? la Furry Lewis) and "When the Saints Go Marching In." He regularly taps into the rockin' boogie woogie vein, sounding a lot like Rev. Gary Davis during "Bottle It Up and Go," covering "What'd I Say" by Ray Charles and tearing up during "Get Off My Toe" and "Long Gone Like a Turkey Through the Corn." Caught in front of a live audience, he obviously enjoys kicking back and telling stories ("Big Black Cadillac Blues," "Big Car Blues"). This anthology contains the essence of Lightnin' Hopkins. It illuminates his links with the canon of classic blues ("I've Been Buked and Scorned" contains direct quotes from Blind Willie Johnson) and the rural Afro-American experience ("Cotton" directly references the life of backbreaking agricultural labor that Hopkins roundly rejected when he chose to become an itinerant musician.) For a prime example of the role that he played in the development of the modern electric blues guitar tradition, go directly to "Guitar Lightnin'." ~ arwulf arwulf
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