Latest Release
- 12 JUN 2023
- 3 Songs
- Mojo Hand Anthology · 1950
- Country Blues · 1959
- The Gold Star Sessions, Vol. 2 · 1990
- Lightnin' and the Blues: The Herald Sessions · 1955
- Lightnin'! · 1967
- The Sonet Blues Story · 1974
- Lightnin' and the Blues: The Herald Sessions · 1954
- Walkin' This Road by Myself (Full Album Plus Bonus Tracks) · 2014
- The Jazz Life! · 1953
- Houston & Shreveport Sessions '63 to '69 · 1969
Essential Albums
Music Videos
- 2021
Artist Playlists
- An astronomical blues talent from the Lone Star State.
Appears On
- Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
About Lightnin' Hopkins
Some artists are influential because so many followers try to imitate them; others are influential precisely because they cannot be imitated. Lightnin' Hopkins was of the latter variety. With a career that stretched from the 1920s through the '70s, the Texas bluesman was a genre unto himself, a deft guitarist equally at home in a quiet solo performance or fronting an electrified boogie band. He was a free-associating poet who made up entire songs on the spot, and a leathery-voiced singer whose vocals simultaneously communicated a lifetime of misery and an endless reserve of self-confidence.
- HOMETOWN
- Centerville, TX, United States
- BORN
- 15 March 1912
- GENRE
- Blues