Lightnin' Hopkins_ His Life and Blues - Alan Govenar [185]
Harris, Sammy, 33
Harrison, Olin, 122
Harvesters, 104
Hawes, Bess Lomax, 98–99
Hayes, Lee, 104
Helfer, Edwin, 222
“Hello Central, Give Me Heaven,” 61, 116, 299n21. See also “Give Me Central 209”
Henry, Eddie, 45, 294n47, 295n61
The Henry Miller Odyssey (documentary), 171
Hentoff, Nat, 70–71, 105, 110, 116
Herald Records, 64–65, 115
Herman, Michael “Hawkeye,” ix
Herridge, Robert, 110
Hess, Bennie, 46
Hess, Norbert, 208
Heywood, Eddie, 23
“Highway Blues,” 63
Hill, Rocky, 226, 227
A History of Leon County (Gates and Fox), 3, 12
“Hobo Blues,” 80. See also “Freight Train Blues”
Hoefer, George, 104
Hofheinz, Roy, 35
Hofstein, Francis, xii, 141, 142
Hogg, Andrew “Smokey,” 56
Holford, Bill, 59, 64–65, 87, 122, 149, 187, 304n56
Holley, Albert, 8
Holt, John, 151, 152
Homage à Lightnin’ Hopkins (television program), 208
“Hoochie Coochie Man,” 66
hoodoo, 113
Hooker, John Lee, 47, 56–57, 59, 61, 84, 151, 167, 204, 205, 218–19, 235
hootenannies, 78–79, 85, 296n23
Hootenanny at the Alley, 78–80
Hootin’ the Blues (recording), 130
Hopkins, Abe, 3; murder of, 4
Hopkins, Abe Jr., 3
Hopkins, Alice, 3
Hopkins, Charles Lewis, 228
Hopkins, Emma, 227
Hopkins, Frances, xiii, 3, 4, 17, 37, 42, 125, 288n11
Hopkins, Joel, xiii, 3, 8–10, 125, 135–36, 164
Hopkins, John Henry, 3, 5, 8, 135–36
Hopkins, Lucien, 36
Hopkins, Oland, xii–xiii
Hopkins, Sam “Lightnin,’” 29, 47, 59, 61–63, 69, 88, 90, 107–11, 113, 119–20, 131, 138, 144, 150, 170, 181–82, 185–86, 189–92, 195, 197, 202–3, 213–14, 231, 297n37, 298n64, 299n21; airplane disasters, mental record-keeping of, 118; air travel, dread of, 140–41; on Aladdin, 43–45, 48–50; Alexander, Texas, influence on, 30; Alexander, Texas, traveling with, 24–26; appeal of, 52–53, 114; and black audiences, 121–22, 147, 196; on the blues, 11–12; and blues revival, 96–97, 128; boyhood of, 1, 3–8; broke, complaints of, 153; brothers, recording with, 135–36; in California, 98–100, 196; in Canada, 205, 206, 221; car accident, 194; as caricature, 215; at Carnegie Hall, 105, 218–20; cash payments, preference for, 91; in chain gang, 13–15, 27; character of, 19; and Samuel Charters, 71–76, 81–82; clothing of, 164; contracts, disregard of, 48, 112, 135, 188, 201; “country bumpkin,” dressed as, 99; death of, 225–26; discography of, 95–96, 151–52, 237–38, 240; discovery of, 41–42; documentary on, 175–80; drinking of, 82–83, 153–54, 184; education of, as minimal, 44; electric guitar, denigration of, 93–94; as enigma, x; European tour, 208; floating verses, use of, ix, 12; flying, hatred of, 118; as folk artist, 83, 106; as folk hero, 42; and Folkways, 90–93; at fraternity party, 134; funeral of, 226–28; gambling, fondness for, 5, 13, 28–29, 153; at Gaslight Club, 148; on Gold Star, 46, 48–50, 55; Grammy nomination, 198; as guitar collector, 220–21; guitar playing of, 8–9; health of, 126, 216, 220; Herald sessions, 67; Herald sessions, as watershed, 64; as high maintenance, 98; in Houston, 35–36, 38–39, 54, 199–200, 216; as icon, 173; illness of, 223–25; improvisation of, viii, x, 103, 105; in Japan, 208–10; Blind Lemon Jefferson, meeting with, 9–11; legacy of, 146, 232–36; as legend, 204; local following of, 52–53, 67; marriage of, 16; and Mack McCormick, 76–81, 83, 87, 89, 124–28; memory of, 12; in Mexico, 222; on Modern, 58; mood swings of, 207; mother, importance of to, 125–26; as musically versatile, 139; as nationally known, 56; nickname of, xiv, 43; performances, descriptions of, 142–43, 205, 215, 302–3n11; persona of, 15; personality of, 217–19, 227; personal life of, 124–25; and J. J. Phillips, 155, 157–69, 171–72; physical appearance of, 16; rediscovery, myth of, 82–83, 115; romanticizing of, 84; royalties of, 229–30; self-mythologizing of, 233; signature sound of, ix; and social protest, 86; songs, selling rights of, 60, 152, 238; and talking blues, 133; temper of, 15; and Texas blues tradition, vii, ix; touring, dislike of, 57, 68; touring of, 132–34, 149, 188,