Lightnin' Hopkins_ His Life and Blues - Alan Govenar [159]
“A Man Like Me Is Hard to Find” Home Cooking LP 102
“Go Ahead” Home Cooking LP 102
“I Wonder Where She Can Be Tonight?” Home Cooking LP 102
“Old Man” Home Cooking LP 102
“Crying for Bread” Home Cooking LP 102
“Rainy Day in Houston” Rattlesnake(Germany) LP 55001
“Stinking Foot” Rattlesnake(Germany) LP 55001
“I Got a Letter This Morning” Collectables CD 5262
“How Does It” Collectables CD 5262
“Lonesome Life” Collectables CD 5262
“Pine Gum Boogie” Collectables CD 5262
“Wake Up the Dead” Collectables CD 5262
“Walking and Walking” Collectables CD 5262
“Shake That Thing” Amhearst CD 662033
Lightnin’ Hopkins Strikes Again! was released in 1975.
Various Artists—Soul … In the Beginning
April 11 and 12, 1968. ACA Recording Studio, 1017 Westheimer, Houston, TX. Producer: Roy Ames
Vocal/electric guitar with Cedric Haywood, piano; Lawrence Evans, bass; Ben Turner, drums.
“December 7, 1941” Avco Embassy LP 33006
“Mojo Hand” Avco Embassy LP 33006
Soul … In The Beginning was released in 1970.
Note: This various artists LP includes Clifton Chenier, T-Bone Walker, Billy Bizor, Calvin Johnson, and Johnny Winter.
Billy Bizor—Blowing My Blues Away
April 15, 1968. ACA Recording Studio, 1017 Westheimer, Houston, TX. Producer: Roy Ames
Vocal/electric guitar with Billy Bizor, harmonica; Elmore Nixon, piano; “Duck” Davis, guitar; Harold Chevalier, bass; Ben Turner, drums.
“Vietnam War” Home Cooking LP 111
“You Just Got to Miss Me” Home Cooking LP 111
Blowing My Blues Away was released in 1988.
The Great Electric Show and Dance
1969. ACA Recording Studio, 1017 Westheimer, Houston, TX. Producer: Don Logan
Vocal/electric and acoustic guitar, with unknown fuzz guitar (probably overdubbed), harmonica, piano, bass and drums.
“You’re Too Fast” Jewel LP 5002; (45) 809
“Love Me This Morning” Jewel LP 5002; (45) 819
“I’m Comin’ Home” Jewel LP 5002; (45) 809
“Ride in Your New Automobile” Jewel LP 5002; (45) 803
“Breakfast Time” Jewel LP 5002; (45) 807
“Lovin’ Arms” Jewel LP 5002; (45) 803
“Rock Me Mama” Jewel LP 5002; (45) 819
“Mr. Charlie Pt. 1” Jewel LP 5002; (45) 816
“Mr. Charlie Pt. 2” Jewel LP 5002; (45) 816
“Play with Your Poodle” Jewel LP 5002; (45) 807
“Little School Girl” Capricorn CD 42014
“My Daddy Was a Preacher” Capricorn CD 42014
“A Death in the Family” Capricorn CD 42014
“I Hate I Got Married” Westside(UK) CD 228
“Jail House Blues” Westside(UK) CD 228
“Katie Mae” Westside(UK) CD 228
“Sail on Little Girl” Westside(UK) CD 228
“West Texas Blues” Westside(UK) CD 228
“Walk Me” Westside(UK) CD 228
“Little Boy Blue” Westside(UK) CD 228
“Pneumonia Blues” Westside(UK) CD 228
“Huntin’ in the Morning” Westside(UK) CD 228
“Letter to My Back Door Friend” Westside(UK) CD 228
“Bass Player’s Go Go” unissued
The Great Electric Show and Dance was released in 1970.
Note: Don Logan has confirmed that this album was recorded at ACA in Houston, not Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, as has long been written. The Westside CD reissue further confirms this location since ACA engineer Bill Holford can be heard announcing most takes.
A fourth album for Jewel is alleged to have been recorded; no information is available.
California Mudslide (and Earthquake)
May 1969. Los Angeles, CA. Producer: Bruce Bromberg
Vocal/electric guitar/piano*/organ** with John Howard, bass+; Bill Brown, drums+.
“California Mudslide” Vault LP 129
“Rosie Mae” Vault LP 129
“Los Angeles Blues”* Vault LP 129
“Easy on Your Heels”+ Vault LP 129; (45) 965
“New Santa Fe” Vault LP 129
“Jesus, Would You Come by Here”** Vault LP 129
“No Education” Vault LP 129; (45) 965
“Antoinette’s Blues”* Vault LP 129
“Change My Way of Livin’” Vault LP 129
“Los Angeles Boogie”** Vault LP 129
“Call on My Baby” Vault LP 129
California Mudslide (And Earthquake) was released c.1969.
Lightnin’!
May 20, 1969. Berkeley, CA. Producer: Chris Strachwitz
Vocal/guitar with Francis Clay, drums. Add Jeff Carp, harmonica; Johnny “Big Moose” Walker, piano; Paul Asbell, guitar; Chester “Gino” Skaggs, bass on *.
“Hold Up