Lightnin' Hopkins_ His Life and Blues - Alan Govenar [147]
“Last Affair” (incomplete take) P-Vine (Japan) CD 3056
“Needed Time” (sic – Needy Time) RPM 359
“One Kind Favor” RPM 359
“Needed Time” (alternate take) Kent LP 9008
“Another Fool in Town” RPM 378
“Candy Kitchen” RPM 378
“Candy Kitchen” (overdubbed guitar) P-Vine (Japan) CD 3056
“Black Cat” RPM 388
“Santa Fe” RPM 398
“Some Day Baby” RPM 398
“Drifting Blues” P-Vine (Japan) CD 3056
“Ticket Agent” Kent LP 9008
“Ticket Agent” (alternate take) P-Vine (Japan) CD 3056
“House Upon the Hill” Kent LP 9008
“Tell Me (Pretty Mama)” Crown LP 5224
“Give Me Back That Wig” Crown LP 5224
“Give Me Back That Wig” (alternate take) P-Vine (Japan) CD 3056
“Everyday I Have the Blues” (incomplete take) Ace(UK) CD 697
“Everyday I Have the Blues” Kent LP 9008
“War News Blues” Kent LP 9008
Note: Billboard announced in September 1951 that Bill Quinn had shut down Gold Star Records and sold thirty-two masters of Hopkins and Lil’ Son Jackson to Modern Records. These titles were presumably recorded over the course of Hopkins’s tenure with Gold Star Records, with perhaps the majority of them dating from 1949–50. There are twenty titles by Hopkins (not including alternate or incomplete takes), plus one (“Mistreater Blues”) from the February 1948 Aladdin sessions that was acquired by Quinn and issued on the flipside of RPM 388.
Reverb was added to most titles; the P-Vine reissue (which compiles all of the RPM/Modern Hopkins masters) restores them to their original state.
c.1950. Houston, TX.
Vocal/electric guitar.
“Black Cat Bone” Specialty LP 2149
“Disagreeable” Specialty (UK) LP 5013
“Dark and Cloudy” Specialty LP 2149
“Sold Out to the Devil” unissued
“Ain’t No Monkey Man” unissued
“Racetrack Blues” unissued
Note: This session was unissued at the time it was recorded, only appearing on albums in the early 1970s. Roger Armstrong (Ace Records, UK) has documented three additional masters from this session that have never been released. The titles listed are provisional.
Early 1951. New York, NY.
Producer: Bob Shad
Vocal/electric guitar; unknown bass.
“Gotta Move” Sittin’ In With 599
“Prayin’ Ground Blues” Sittin’ In With 599
“Long Way From Texas” Sittin’ In With 611
“Tell Me Boogie” Sittin’ In With 611
“Mad As I Can Be” (alternate take of “Tell Me Boogie”) Mainstream (UK) CD 901
“Give Me Central 209” Sittin’ In With 621
“New York Boogie” Sittin’ In With 621
“Coffee Blues” Sittin’ In With 635/Jax 635
“New Short Haired Woman” Sittin’ In With 635/Jax 635
Note: Most LP/CD reissues of the Sittin’ In With recordings, including those below, feature added reverb that does not appear on the original records.
1951. Houston, TX. Producer: Bob Shad
Vocal/electric guitar; Donald Cooks, bass; L. C. Williams, tap dancing*.
“You Caused My Heart to Weep” Sittin’ In With 642/Jax 642
“Tap Dance Boogie”* Sittin’ In With 642/Jax 642
“Dirty House Blues” Sittin’ In With 647
“Bald Headed Woman” Sittin’ In With 647
“New Worried Life Blues” Sittin’ In With 649/Jax 649
“One Kind of Favor” (sic – One Kind Favor) Sittin’ In With 649/Jax 649
“Papa Bones Boogie”* Sittin’ In With 652
“Everything Happens to Me” Sittin’ In With 652
“Freight Train Blues” Sittin’ In With 658
“Broken Hearted Blues” Sittin’ In With 658
“I Wonder (Why)” Sittin’ In With 660/Jax 660
“I’ve Been a Bad Man” Sittin’ In With 660/Jax 315/Jax 660
“No Good Woman” Jax 315
“(Lightnin’s) Gone Again” Sittin’ In With 661/Jax 661
“Down to the River” Sittin’ In With 661/Jax 661
“Contrary Mary” Jax 321/Harlem 2321
“I’m Begging You” Jax 321/Harlem 2321
“You Do Too” Mercury 8252
“Everybody’s Down on Me” Mercury 8252
“Worried Blues” Time LP 1385
“Don’t Think I’m Crazy” Time LP 70004
“Broken Hearted Blues” Mainstream (UK) CD 905
“Why Did You Get Mad at Me” Mainstream (UK) CD 905
“What Kind of Heart Have You” Mainstream (UK) CD 905
“What Must I Do” unissued
“Walked to the River” unissued
Note: The above sessions were probably recorded on different o ccasions over the course of 1951 (and possibly1952) by Shad. “I’ve Been a Bad Man” retitled