Lightnin' Hopkins_ His Life and Blues - Alan Govenar [157]
Various Artists—Great Bluesmen/Newport
July 24, 1965. Live at the Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI.
Vocal/electric guitar with Sam Lay, drums.
“Cotton Field Blues” Vanguard LP 77/78
“Shake That Thing” Vanguard LP 77/78
Great Bluesmen/Newport was released in 1976.
Note: This various artists double LP includes Son House, Skip James, John Lee Hooker, Mississippi John Hurt, and others.
Various Artists—Blues with a Feeling
July 24, 1965. Live at the Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI.
Vocal/electric guitar.
“The Woman I’m Loving, She’s Taken My Appetite” Vanguard CD 2-77005
“Come On, Baby” Vanguard CD 2-77005
“Baby Please Don’t Go” Vanguard CD 2-77005
Note: This various artists CD includes Son House, Bukka White, Skip James, Muddy Waters, Mississippi John Hurt, and others.
Blues With a Feeling was released in 1993.
Live at Newport
July 24, 1965. Live at the Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI.
Vocal/electric guitar with Sam Lay, drums*.
“Where Can I Find My Baby?” Vanguard CD 79715
“Baby Please Don’t Go” Vanguard CD 79715
“Mojo Hand” Vanguard CD 79715
“Trouble in Mind” Vanguard CD 79715
“The Woman I’m Loving, She’s Taken My Appetite” Vanguard CD 79715
“Come on Baby” Vanguard CD 79715
“Cotton Patch Blues” Vanguard CD 79715
“Instrumental”* Vanguard CD 79715
“Jealous of My Wife”* Vanguard CD 79715
“Every Day About This Time”* Vanguard CD 79715
“Shake That Thing”* Vanguard CD 79715
Note: Vanguard CD 79715 purports to reissue the complete Newport performance. However, “Cotton Patch Blues,” while the same song as “Cotton Field Blues” on the Great Bluesmen/Newport LP, is a completely different performance, with no drummer present.
Live at Newport was released in 2002.
Lightnin’ Srikes
October 4 and 5, 1965. Los Angeles, CA.
Vocal/electric guitar with Don Crawford, harmonica (overdubbed)*; Jimmy Bond, bass; Earl Palmer, drums.
“Mojo Hand”* Verve-Folkways LP 9022
“Little Wail”* Verve-Folkways LP 9022
“Cotton” Verve-Folkways LP 9022
“Take Me Back (Baby)” Verve-Folkways LP 9022
“(Really) Nothin’ But the Blues” Verve-Folkways LP 9022
“Hurricane Betsy”* Verve-Folkways LP 9022
“Guitar Lightnin’” Verve-Folkways LP 9022
“Woke Up This Morning” Verve-Folkways LP 9022
“Shake Yourself”* Verve-Folkways LP 9022
“Down Home Blues” Saga(UK) LP 8001
“Lightnin’s Blues” Saga(UK) LP 8001
“Goin’ to Louisiana” (alternate take of “Mojo Hand”) Saga(UK) LP 8001
Lightnin’ Strikes was released in 1966.
Note: First pressings of this LP were released with a photo of Reverend Gary Davis on the cover.
Lightnin’ Hopkins
October 4 and 5, 1965. Los Angeles, CA.
Vocal/electric guitar with Don Crawford, harmonica (overdubbed)*; Jimmy Bond, bass; Earl Palmer, drums; John “Streamline” Ewing, trombone **.
“Shaggy Dad” [sic “Shaggy Dog”] Verve-Folkways LP 3013
“I’ll Be Gone”** Verve-Folkways LP 3013
“Shining Moon” Verve-Folkways LP 3013
“Shake It Baby” Verve-Folkways LP 3013
“Goin’ Back Home” Verve-Folkways LP 3013
“Good Times” Verve-Folkways LP 3013
“What’d I Say”* Verve-Folkways LP 3013
“Don’t Wake Me” Verve-Folkways LP 3013
“Talk of the Town” Verve-Folkways LP 3013
Lightnin’ Hopkins was released in 1967.
That’s My Story: The Blues of Lightnin’ Hopkins, Vol. 1
October 4 and 5, 1965. Los Angeles, CA.
Vocal/electric guitar with Don Crawford, harmonica (overdubbed)*; Jimmy Bond, bass; Earl Palmer, drums; John “Streamline” Ewing, trombone**.
“Last Night” Polydor(UK) LP 545019
“Rain”** Polydor(UK) LP 545019
“Fugitive Blues” Polydor(UK) LP 545019
“G String Blues” Polydor(UK) LP 545019
“Grandma Told Grandpa” Polydor(UK) LP 545019
“Goin’ to Dallas” Polydor(UK) LP 545019
“Keep Movin’ On” Polydor(UK) LP 545019
“That’s My Story” Polydor(UK) LP 545019
“Dillon’s Store”** Polydor(UK) LP 545019
That’s My Story was released (in the United Kingdom only) in 1970.
Blue Lightnin’
c.1965. Probably Robin Hood Brian Studio, Tyler, TX. Producer: Stan Lewis
Vocal/acoustic-electric guitar with Elmore Nixon, piano; unknown bass and drums.
“Found My Baby Crying” Jewel LP 5000; (45)