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Lightnin' Hopkins_ His Life and Blues - Alan Govenar [160]

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Your Hand” Poppy LP 60002

“My Starter Won’t Start This Morning” Poppy LP 60002

“What’d I Say” Poppy LP 60002

“One Kind Favor” Poppy LP 60002

“Baby Please Don’t Go” Poppy LP 60002

“Trouble in Mind” Poppy LP 60002

“Annie’s Blues” Poppy LP 60002

“Baby” Poppy LP 60002

“Little and Low” Poppy LP 60002

“I Hear You Callin’” Poppy LP 60002

“Mojo Hand Pt. 1” Poppy LP 60002

“Mojo Hand Pt. 2” Poppy LP 60002

“Have You Ever Had a Woman” Poppy LP 60002

“Ain’t It Crazy” Poppy LP 60002

“Black and Evil” Poppy LP 60002

“Rock Me Baby”* Poppy LP 60002

“Hello Central” Poppy LP 60002

“Back Door Friend”* Poppy LP 60002

“Little Girl, Little Girl” Poppy LP 60002

“It’s Better Down the Road” Poppy LP 60002

From above session:

“Lightnin’ Declares” Tomato CD 2098

“Last Night I Lost the Best Friend I Ever Had” Tomato CD 2098

“Baby, Please Lend Me Your Love” Tomato CD 2098

‘Short Haired Woman (speech)” Tomato CD 2098

‘Short Haired Woman” Tomato CD 2098

‘Cigar (speech)” Tomato CD 2098

“Pneumonia Blues” Tomato CD 2098

“What’d I Say”* Tomato CD 2098

‘Katie Mae”* Tomato CD 2098

‘Black Cadillac” Tomato CD 2098

“One for the Gamblin’” Tomato CD 2098

“I Gave Up Card Playin’ (speech)” Tomato CD 2098

“I Once Was a Gambler” Tomato CD 2098

“Where Did You Stay Last Night?” Tomato CD 2098

“Careless Love” Tomato CD 2098

“Black Lightnin’ (speech)” Tomato CD 2098

“Lightnin’ Slow Blues” Tomato CD 2098

“Lightnin’! (a double LP) was released in 1970.


Lightning Hopkins in Berkeley

May 20, 1969, and December 8, 1969. Berkeley, CA. Producer: Chris Strachwitz

Vocal/electric guitar with Francis Clay, drums.

“Send My Child Home to Me” Arhoolie LP 1063

“Wipe Your Feet on the Floor” Arhoolie LP 1063

“Sellin’ Wine in Arizona” Arhoolie LP 1063

“Please Settle in Viet Nam” Arhoolie LP 1063; (45) Joliet 205

“Up on Telegraph Avenue” Arhoolie LP 1063

“Brand New Lock” Arhoolie LP 1063

“Little and Low Blues” Arhoolie LP 1063

Lightning Hopkins in Berkeley was released in 1973.

Note: Several songs on this album had been previously released on the Lightnin’! LP on Poppy; only those uniqut to this LP have been listed.


Blues Is My Business—Live 1971, Previously Unreleased, Vol. 1

1971. Live, unknown location.

Vocal/guitar with unknown bass and drums.

“I Got a Feeling” Edsel (UK) CD 353

“Walking All Night Long” Edsel (UK) CD 353

“I Crawled By Your Window” Edsel (UK) CD 353

“Take Me Back” Edsel (UK) CD 353

“Blues Is My Business” Edsel (UK) CD 353

“Mojo Hand” Edsel (UK) CD 353

“Pinetop’s Boogie” Edsel (UK) CD 353

“Throw This Old Dog a Bone” Edsel (UK) CD 353

“Cook My Breakfast” Edsel (UK) CD 353

“You Can Look at Me” Edsel (UK) CD 353

Blues is My Business—Live 1971, Previously Unreleased, Vol. 1 was released in 1993.


You’re Gonna Miss Me—Live 1971, Previously Unreleased, Vol. 2

1971. Live, unknown location.

Vocal/guitar with unknown bass and drums.

“Rock Me Baby” Edsel (UK) CD 357

“Put Your Red Dress On” Edsel (UK) CD 357

“Lightnin’ (He) Can Do It” Edsel (UK) CD 357

“Lightnin’ Boogie” Edsel (UK) CD 357

“Mr. Charlie” Edsel (UK) CD 357

“Baby Please Don’t Go” Edsel (UK) CD 357

“Lightnin’s Gone Again” Edsel (UK) CD 357

“One-Eyed Woman” Edsel (UK) CD 357

“Hardly Trying” Edsel (UK) CD 357

“You’re Gonna Miss Me When I’m Gone” Edsel (UK) CD 357

You’re Gonna Miss Me—Live 1971, Previously Unreleased, Vol. 2 was released in 1993.

Note: Edsel CD 353 & CD 357 reissued as one CD on Edsel CD 8011.


It’s a Sin to Be Rich

May 16 and 17, 1972. Village Recorder Studio, Los Angeles, CA.

Vocal/electric guitar/piano* with John Lee Hooker, guitar**/speech+; Jesse Edwin Davis, guitar; Luther Tucker, guitar; Mel Brown, guitar/piano/organ; Charlie Grimes, guitar; David Cohen, guitar; Clifford Coulter, piano/melodica***/bass; Michael White, violin; Joe Frank Corola, bass; Lonnie Castile, drums.

“Roberta” Verve CD 517 514

“Katie Mae” + *** Verve CD 517 514

“Howlin’ Wolf” [spoken] Verve CD 517 514

“The Rehearsal”** Verve CD 517 514

“It’s a Sin to be Rich, It’s a Low-Down Shame to be Poor” Verve CD 517 514

“Y’all Escuse Me” [sic] Verve

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