Lightnin' Hopkins
- MatchLightnin' Hopkins
- 100%T-Bone Walker
- 97%Elmore James
- 95%Little Walter
- 95%Muddy Waters
- 92%Howlin' Wolf
- 90%John Lee Hooker
- 87%Mississippi John Hurt
- 81%Big Bill Broonzy
- 81%Robert Johnson
- 81%Skip James
Biography
Sam Hopkins, 15 March 1912, Centreville, Texas, USA, d. 30 January 1982, Houston, Texas, USA. One of the last great country blues singers, Hopkins lengthy career began in the Texas bars and juke joints of the 20s. Towards the end of the decade he formed a duo with a cousin, Texas Alexander, while his Lightnin epithet was derived from a subsequent partnership with barrelhouse pianist Thunder Smith, with whom he made his first recordings. Hopkins early work unveiled a masterly... Read more