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105. Charters, p. 27.
6. The Touring Intensifies
1. Robert Shelton, “Two Guitarists at Village Gate,” New York Times, March 31, 1962.
2. Shelton, 1962.
3. Lawrence Cohn, Liner Notes to Lightnin’ Hopkins: Hootin’ the Blues, Prestige 7806.
4. Liner notes to Lightnin’ Hopkins, Mojo Hand, Fire LP 104.
5. Ibid.
6. Chris Strachwitz, interview by Alan Govenar, May 20, 2009.
7. On Lightnin’ Hopkins, Rare Performances 1960–1979, Vestapol DVD 13022, this footage is incorrectly dated 1960. The clip of Lightnin’ Hopkins was excerpted from On the Road Again: Down Home Blues, Jazz, Gospel and More, produced and directed by Sherwin Dunner and Richard Nevins with footage shot by Dietrich Wawzyn.
8. Dan Morgenstern, interview by Alan Govenar, February 3, 2009.
9. Morgenstern, February 3, 2009.
10. Morgenstern, February 3, 2009.
11. Joe Nick Patoski, “Remembering Lightnin’ Hopkins,” Texas Music, Issue 24, Fall 2004. Patoski also recalled a performance by Lightnin’ on an unspecified date at Jay’s Lounge and Cockpit near Cankton, Louisiana, where “the loser of the cockfights staged around back wound up in the gumbo. Hopkins was opening for Clifton Chenier on a weeknight, playing in front of a packed house that remained orderly despite a throng gathered outside that was even larger than the one inside, packed onto the wooden dance floor. All it took was Hopkins hitting a few licks on his guitar, while the other players—mostly Chenier’s Red Hot Louisiana Band—started to percolate behind him. Before he could finish the first verse, a rock crashed through a window near the stage, followed by a mass of people pouring through the opening, oblivious to the broken shards of glass. Hopkins glanced over to the window, flashed a flicker of a smile, and kept on playing, never missing a beat. It’s anything he hadn’t seen before. He knew as well as anyone what his music could do.”
12. Gordon Dougherty, “Lightnin’ 1963 Flashbacks: A Folk Junkie’s Out-Of-Place Encounter with a Blues Legend,” Austin American-Statesman, August 22, 1996.
13. Ibid.
14. For more information, see The American Folk Blues Festival, 1962–1966, Vols. 1 and 2, Reelin’ In The Years Productions, 2003.
15. Chris Strachwitz, interview by Alan Govenar, October 10, 2008.
16. Strachwitz, October 10, 2008.
17. Ibid., September 4, 2008.
18. George W. Lyons, “No Lyon,” Blues Unlimited 123 (January/February 1977), p. 12.
19. Ibid.
20. Barbara Dane, interview by Alan Govenar, March 27, 2008.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid.
23. Jesse Cahn, interview by Alan Govenar, May 30, 2008.
24. Ibid.
25. Ibid.
26. Dane, March 27, 2008.
27. Chris Strachwitz, interview by Alan Govenar, October 10, 2008.
28. Ibid.
29. Rob Bowman, liner notes to The American Folk Blues Festival 1962–1966, Reelin’ In The Years Production, 2003.
30. The Hopkins Brothers: Lightning, Joel and John Henry, Arhoolie CD 340.
31. Strachwitz, October 10, 2008.
32. Francis Hofstein, interview by Alan Govenar, April 8, 2008.
33. Alan Balfour, “Death of a Legend,” New Musical Express [UK], February 6, 1982.
34. Derrick Stewart-Baxter, “Blues,” Jazz Journal, December 1964, pp. 28–29.
35. Paul Oliver, “Festival Blues, The American Blues Festival, 1964,” Jazz Monthly, Christmas 1964, pp. 4–6.
36. Val Wilmer, “Blues ‘64,” Jazz Beat (November 1964), pp. 36–37.
37. Kay Pope, “The European Odyssey of Lightnin’ Sam Hopkins,” Houston Chronicle Sunday Magazine, November 22, 1964, p. 14.
38. “Down Home Blues,” Billboard, Vol. 76, No. 40 (October 3, 1964), p. 24.
39. Dane, March 27, 2008.
40. Mitch Greenhill, interview by Alan Govenar, October 10, 2008.
41. Chris Strachwitz, September 4, 2008.
42. Ibid.
43. Ibid. October 10, 2008.
44. For a discography of blues singers who appeared at the Newport Folk Festival, see www.wirz.de/music/newpofrm.htm.
45. Strachwitz, October 10, 2008.
46. The Live at Newport recordings were released on Vanguard CD 79715 in 2002.
47. Vanguard CD 79715.
48. Strachwitz, October 10, 2008.
49. Lay, October 9, 2008.
50. Verve-Folkways LP 9022