Four Classic Albums Volume 2

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Retrouvez 4 Remastered Albums on 2 CDs by Lightnin' Hopkins // CD 1: Sings The Blues / Lightnin' Hopkins // CD 2: Blues In My Bottle / Walkin' This Road By Myself
It is not surprising that, in an extraordinary musical career that lasted over 50 years, Sam Lightnin' Hopkins became the most recorded of all the legendary bluesmen. Primarily a singer and guitarist of the old blues tradition that also included musicians such as Robert Johnson, Blind Blake, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and Charlie Patton, to name just a few, Lightnin' outlived them to become literally a living legend when the blues revival hit the United States and the United Kingdom in the 1950s and 1960s. He met Blind Lemon Jefferson at the age of 8, which was a turning point in his life, and became his accompanist for a while. Think about that for a moment! What stories this man must have kept in his head! Lightnin' had tried to break into the music recording business since the late 1930s, but it was not until the mid-1940s that he was discovered singing and playing in the streets of Houston and was signed by the Aladdin Records label from Los Angeles. Houston would then become his home base. But of course, Lightnin' had to make money; life was very tough, especially for a black man in the United States. He became a prolific artist over the years and was one of the leading musicians during the folk/blues revival of the early 1960s.