aka: Lightning Hopkins *
Centerville, Texas, U.S.
Electric blues, country blues, Texas Blues
Samuel John "Lightnin'" Hopkins (March 15, 1912 – January 30, 1982) was an American country blues singer, songwriter, guitarist, and occasional pianist, from Centerville, Texas. Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 71 on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.
The musicologist Robert "Mack" McCormick opined that Hopkins is "the embodiment of the jazz-and-poetry spirit, representing its ancient form in the single creator whose words and music are one act".
Lightnin Hopkins (1959)
Autobiography in Blues (1960)
Country Blues (1960)
Lightnin' (The Blues of Lightnin' Hopkins) (1960)
Lightnin' and the Blues (1960)
Lightnin' in New York (1960) Live
Blues in My Bottle (1961)
Last Night Blues (1961) with Sonny Terry
Lightnin' Strikes (1962) 2003 Rem.
Lightnin' Strikes Back (1962) Live
Mojo Hand (1962)
Sings the Blues (1962) rec.'46/'48, 2016 Rem.
Walkin' This Road By Myself (1962)
Blues Hoot: Live Recording at the Ash Grove (1963) with Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
Goin' Away (1963)
Smokes Like Lightning (1963)
Hootin the Blues (1964) Live '62
Soul Blues (1965)
Free Form Patterns * (1968)
Houston Gold * (1968)
California Mudslide (and Earthquake) * (1969)
The Great Electric Show and Dance (1969)
A Legend in His Own Time (1970) rec.'50/'51
Double Blues (1972) rec.'64
Dirty Blues * (1973)
Po' Lightnin' * (1983) rec.'61/'69
Lightnin' Hopkins (1989) rec.'46-'60
The Texas Bluesman (1989) rec.'61/'65/'67
From the Vaults of Everest Records (1990)
Blues Train * (1991) rec.'50/'51
Joel, Lightnin' & John Henry (1991) rec.'65, The Hopkins Brothers
Sittin in with Lightnin' Hopkins (1991) rec.'53
It's a Sin to Be Rich (1992) rec.'72
Morning Blues (1992) rec.'65/'69
The Swarthmore Concert (1993) Live '64
Lightning Hopkins - Texas Blues (1994) rec.'61-'69
Forever: Last Recording (1996) Live '81
Lightnin' Hopkins (1996) Comp.
Sometimes I Believe She Loves Me (1996) rec.'64, with Barbara Dane
The Remaining Titles, Volume 1 (1998) rec.'50-'61
Straight Blues (1999) rec.'61/'64
Live! At the Berkeley (2000) rec.'66, with Clifton Chenier and Mance Lipscomb
Lightning Hopkins and the Blues Summit (2001) rec.'60, with Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee and Big Joe Williams
In the Key of Lightnin' (2002) rec.May 20,'69
Live at Newport (2002) rec.'65
All the Classics 1946-1951 (2003)
The Sonet Blues Story (2005) rec.'74
The Acoustic Years 1959-1960 (2014)
appears on:
American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1965 (1995)
