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Bastin, Bruce. “Houston ‘65.” Blues Unlimited no. 34 (July 1966): 4–5.

Batey, Rick. “Soul Food and Tasty Blues Bites: Lightnin’ Hopkins.” The Guitar Magazine 7, no. 4 (February 1997): 22.

Beeth, Howard and Cary D. Wintz. Black Dixie: Afro-Texan History and Culture in Houston. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1992.

Bentley, Chris. “Lightnin’ Hopkins: Last of the Great Blues Singers: ‘A Folk Poet in the True Sense of the Word.’” Juke Blues no. 40 (1998): 36–40.

———. “Vanity Dresser Boogie.” Roll Street Journal no. 24 (1989): 18–19.

Berg, Arne. Rhythm & Blues Panorama Special: Lightnin’ Hopkins. Stockholm: Panorama, c.1964.

Blackmon, Douglas A. Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black People in America from the Civil to World War II. New York: Doubleday, 2008.

Birkerts, Sven. “Lightnin’ Hopkins: The Bluesman as (Comic) Antihero.” Oxford American no. 50 (Summer 2005): 10–12.

Boicel, Rouè-Doudou. Lightnin’ Hopkins: The Rising Sun Collection. Canada: Just a Memory RSCD 0009, 1995.

Bowden, Dan, ed. Mel Bay Presents Lightnin’ Hopkins: Blues Guitar Legend. Pacific: Mel Bay, 1995.

Bromberg, Bruce. Lightnin’ Hopkins: Los Angeles Blues. USA: Rhino RNLP 103, 1982.

Bruynoghe, Yannick. “Hopkins, Sam Lightning” in Jazz Era: The Forties edited by Stanley Dance. New York: Da Capo, 1961.

Broven, John. Record Makers and Breakers. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2009.

Bullard, Robert D. Invisible Houston: The Black Experience. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1987.

Byers, Bill. “‘Hootenanny’ Singers Win Applause at Alley Program,” Houston Chronicle, July 21, 1959.

Cantor, Louis. Wheelin’ on Beale. New York: Pharos Books, 1992.

Cantwell, Robert. When We Were Good: The Folk Revival. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.

Carlin, Richard. Worlds of Sound: The Story of Smithsonian Folkways. New York: Smithsonian Books/HarperCollins, 2008.

Charters, Samuel B. The Legacy of the Blues. New York: Marion Boyars, 1975. ———. The Country Blues. New York: Da Capo, 2003.

———. “Lightnin’.” Walking a Blues Road: A Blues Reader 1956–2004, New York: Marion Boyars, 2004.

———. The Legacy of the Blues. Vol. 12: Lightnin’ Hopkins: Texas’s Blues Legend Considers His World, His

Life and Times. UK: Sonet SNTF 672, 1974; USA: GNP Crescendo GNPS 100022, 1976.

———. Lightnin’ Hopkins. USA: Folkways FS 3822, 1959, Smithsonian/Folkways SF 40019, 1990.

———. Lightnin’ Hopkins: The Complete Prestige/Bluesville Recordings. Prestige 7PCD-4406-2, 1991.

———. The Roots of ‘Lightnin” Hopkins. Verve Folkways FVS 9000, 1965; Folkways FTS 31011, 1968.

———. Lightnin’ Hopkins: The Swarthmore Concert. USA: Original Blues Classics OBCCD-563-2, 1993.

Cohen, Ronald D., ed. Wasn’t That a Time! Firsthand Accounts of the Folk Music Revival. Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, 1995.

Cohn, Lawrence. Lightnin’ Hopkins: Hootin’ the Blues. Prestige/Folklore 14021, 1964. Prestige PRT-7806, 1972.

Cortese, Bob. “A Telephone Interview with Lightnin’ Hopkins.” Whiskey, Women and … no. 8 (March 1982): 18–20.

Cummings, Tony. “Lightnin’ Hopkins: His British Releases.” Soul: The Magazine for the R&B Collector no. 5 (1966).

Dahl, Bill. Blues Kingpins: Lightnin’ Hopkins. Virgin 72435-82740-2-8, 2003.

———. Hello Central: The Best of Lightnin’ Hopkins. Columbia/Legacy CK 86988, 2004.

———. Lightnin’ Hopkins & the Blues Summit. Fuel 2000 302 061 101-2, 2001.

———. Lightnin’ Hopkins: Freeform Patterns. Fuel 2000 302 061 315-2, 2003.

Dance, Helen Oakley. Stormy Monday: The T-Bone Walker Story. New York: Da Capo, 1987.

Dane, Barbara. Barbara Dane and Lightning Hopkins: Sometimes I Believe She Loves Me. Arhoolie CD 451, 1996.

Darwen, Norman and Tamara Shad. “Bobby Shad: The Record Man, The Sittin’ In With Story,” Blues & Rhythm no. 100 (June/July 1995), 16–30.

Davis, John T. Austin City Limits: 25 Years of American Music. New York: Billboard Books, 2000.

Demêtre, Jacques. Lightnin’ Hopkins: Blues