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McCormick, Mack. “A Conversation with Lightnin’ Hopkins. Pt 1.” Jazz Journal 13, no. 11 (November 1960): 22–24

———. “A Conversation with Lightnin’ Hopkins. Pt 2.” Jazz Journal 14, no. 1 (January 1961): 16–19.

———. “A Conversation with Lightnin’ Hopkins. Pt 3.” Jazz Journal 14, no. 2 (February 1961): 18–19.

———. “Lightnin’ Hopkins.” Jazz: Metodická Publikace Urcená Clenum Jazzové Sekce no. 23 (1978): 44–45.

———. Lightnin’ Hopkins: Autobiography in Blues. Tradition LP 1040, 1960; Tradition TCD-1002, 1996.

———. “Lightnin’ Hopkins: Blues.” Jazz Review [USA] 3, no. 1 (January 1960): 14–17. Reprinted in

Jazz Panorama, edited by M. T. Williams, New York: Crowell-Collier, 1962.

———. Lightnin’ Hopkins: Blues in My Bottle. Bluesville BV-1045, c.1961; Original Blues Classics OBC-506, 1984; UK: Ace CH 290, 1984.

———. Lightnin’ Hopkins: Country Blues. Tradition LP 1035, 1959; USA: Tradition TCD 1003, 1996.

———. Lightnin’ Hopkins: Got to Move Your Baby. Prestige PRT 7831, 1972.

———. Lightnin’ Hopkins: How Many More Years I Got. Fantasy FCD-24725-2, 1981.

———. Lightnin’ Hopkins: Last Night Blues. Bluesville BV-1029, 1961; UK: Fontana 688 301, 1962;

USA: Bluesville BV-SP 101; USA: Original Blues Classics OBCCD-548-2, 1992.

———. Lightnin’ Hopkins: Lightnin’ and Co. Bluesville BV-1061, 1962.

———. Lightnin’ Hopkins: Smokes Like Lightning. Bluesville BV-1070, 1975; Original Blues Classics OBCCD-551-2, 1992.

———. Lightnin’ Hopkins: Walkin’ This Road by Myself. Bluesville BV-1057, 1962; UK: Ace CH 256.

———. “Sam ‘Lightnin” Hopkins: A Description.” Jazz Monthly 5, no. 8 (October 1959): 4–6. Reprinted in Sing Out! 10, no. 3 (October/November 1960): 4–8.

———. Sam “Lightnin” Hopkins: The Rooster Crowed in England. UK: 77 Records LA 12-1, 1960.

MacLeod, Doug. “Doug’s Back Porch: Two Statues Named Sam.” Blues Revue no. 93 (April/May 2005): 35–36.

Michel, Ed. Down South Summit Meetin’. World-Pacific WP-1296, 1960; Liberty/World Pacific 1817, 1970. Milward, John. Lightnin Hopkins: Live at Newport. Vanguard VCD 79715, 2002. Morgenstern, Dan. Lightnin’ Hopkins: Goin’ Away. USA: Bluesville BV-1073, 1963. Mullen, Patrick B. “The Prism of Race: Two Texas Performers.” Southern Folklore Quarterly 54, no. 1 (1997): 13–25.

———. The Man Who Adores the Negro: Race and American Folklore. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2008.

Murray, Charles Shaar. Boogie Man: The Adventures of John Lee Hooker in the American Twentieth

Century. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2002. Obrecht, Jas. “Lightnin’ Hopkins.” Guitar Player 31, no. 10 (October 1997): 60–61, 63, 65–66, 68, 70. Reprinted in Rollin’ and Tumblin’, edited by J. Obrecht. San Francisco: Miller Freeman Books, 2000.

O’Brien, Timothy J., “Lightnin’ Hopkins: Houston Bluesman, 1912–1960,” MA thesis, University of Houston, 2006.

Oliver, Paul. “Lightnin Hopkins.”Conversation with the Blues. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1965: 43–44, 55–56, 74–75, 183.

———. “Hopkins, Lightnin’” in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Vol. 8, edited by S.

Sadie, p. 690. London: Macmillan, 1980. Reprinted in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Vol. 11. 2nd ed., edited by S. Sadie, p. 700. New York: Grove, 2001.

———. Lightnin’ Hopkins/John Lee Hooker: Live Recordings from Bird Lounge, Houston Texas. Denmark: Storyville SLP 174, 1965.

———. Songsters and Saints: Vocal Traditions on Race Records.Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

———. Liner notes to Texas Alexander, “Complete Recorded Works in Chronological Order,”

Volumes 1, 2, and 3, Document MDCD-2001, MDCD-2002, and MDCD-2003. Palmer, Robert. “Lightnin’ Hopkins at 68: Still Singing Those Blues.” New York Times (October 31, 1980): 14.

Phelan, Charlotte. “Song Maker.” Houston Post (August 23, 1959).

Phillips, J. J. Mojo Hand. New York: Trident, 1966. Reprint, New York, Pocket, 1969. Restored edition: Mojo Hand: An Orphic Tale. Berkeley, CA: City Miner, 1985. London: Serpent’s Tail, 1987. La Tour d’Aigues: Éditions de l’aube,