Lightnin' Hopkins Vinyl Records

Includes the entire 1960 studio album, Mojo Hand, plus many more classics recorded between 1949 and 1960 with such timeless favorites as “Shake That Thing,” “I’m Leaving You Now” and lots more!

Track Listing:
Side A
1. Bring Me My Shotgun
2. Mojo Hand
3. Shake That Thing
4. Lonesome Dog Blues
5. Coffee For Mama
6. Shine On, Moon!

Side B
1. How Long Has The Train Been Gone?
2. Awful Dream
3. Last Night
4. Sometimes She Will
5. Have You Ever Loved A Woman?
6. Houston Bound

Side B:

1. Bluebird, Bluebird
2. See See Rider
3. Worrying My Mind
4. Til the Gin Gets Here
5. Bunion Stew
6. You Got to Work to Get Your Pay
7. Go Down Old Hannah
8. Hear My Black Dog Bark

This collection includes the best of Lightnin Hopkin's repertoire. Highlights include 'Lightnin's Special', title track 'Dirty House Blues', 'Tim Moore's Farm' and many more.

Track Listing:
LP1
1. Nothin' But The Blues
2. Remember Me
3. I Love You Baby
4. Shine On Moon
5. Lightnin's Special
6. Sittin' Here Thinkin'
7. My Baby's Gone
8. Had A Gal Called Sal
9. They Wonder Who I Am
10. Everybody's Down On Me
11. Down To The River
12. Long Way From Texas
13. Tap Dance Boogie
14. I'm Begging You

LP2
1. Freight Train Blues
2. Dirty House Blues
3. Coffee Blues
4. Unkind Blues
5. Fast Life Woman
6. Another Fool In Town
7. T-Model Blues
8. Bottle It Up And Go
9. Nightmare Blues
10. West Coast Blues
11. Life I Used To Live
12. Tim Moore's Farm
13. Buck Dance Boogie
14. Shotgun Blues

Featuring 28 classic cuts of Texas blues, don't miss the chance to own these tracks on 180g Vinyl.

Track Listing:
LP1
1. Texas Blues- Big Maceo
2. Coffee Blues- Lightnin' Hopkins
3. Freeze- Albert Collins
4. Okie Dokie Stomp- Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
5. 'T' 99 Blues- Jimmy Nelson
6. Hide Away- Freddie King
7. Crawfish- Clarence Garlow
8. Little School Girl- Smokey Hogg
9. Just Got To Know- Jimmy McCracklin
10. Rainin' In My Heart- Peppermint Harris
11. I Smell A Rat- Big Mama Thornton
12. Mean Old World- T-Bone Walker
13. It's Midnight (No Place To Go)- Little Willie Littlefield
14. What Will Lucy Do?- Frankie Lee Sims

LP2
1. Crossroads- Texas Alexander
2. Texas Hop- Pee Wee Crayton
3. Chicken-Hearted Woman- Clarence Samuels
4. Why Don't You Eat Where You Slept Last Night?- Zuzu Bollin
5. Blues Party- Gary Goodgion
6. Misery Blues- Smokey Hogg
7. Hey Joe- Clarence Samuels
8. Strollin' With The Blues- T-Bone Walker
9. Freedom Train Blues- Lil' Son Jackson
10. Linda Lu- Ray Sharpe
11. Hurry Baby- Little Willie Littlefield
12. Wrong-Doing Woman- Earl Gilliam
13. Lucy Mae Blues- Frankie Lee Sims
14. Angel Child- Peppermint Harris

This 1960 studio session commemorates a rare moment in blues history. With the help of the ubiquitous Lomax family, Pacific World Records managed to get four giants of the blues – Lightnin’ Hopkins, Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry and Big Joe Williams – together in-studio for this informal jam session on 6 July 1960. Interestingly, it was also the first time that Hopkins and McGhee had ever met (although each man had always admired the other’s guitar playing tremendously). Eight years prior, McGhee had even written a “challenge” song called “A Letter To Lightnin’ Hopkins”, to which Lightnin’ had the chance to respond for the first time here in this entirely improvised “answer song” called “First Meetin’”. In fact, most of the songs on this album, like “Wimmin From Coast To Coast” and “Ain’t Nothin’ Like Whisky”, are recorded in a rare call-and-answer format between Lightnin’, Brownie and Big Joe. In addition, Side D features a LIVE recording of Lightnin’ Hopkins playing the legendary Ash Grove folk club in L.A. the following night (7 July 1960). Pure unrehearsed genius! These men were not mere blues players, they were mediums for the divine!

Track Listing:
LP1
1. First Meetin'
2. If You Steal My Chickens You Can’t Make ‘Em Lay
3. Wimmin From Coast To Coast
4. Ain’t Nothin’ Like Whisky
5. Penitentiary Blues
6. Right On That Store

LP2
1. Early Morning Blues
2. Blues For Gamblers
3. Bucked And Scorned
4. Excuse Me Miss
5. Big Black Cadillac Blues
6. Coffee House Blues
7. Stool Pigeon Blues
8. Ball of Twine
9. How Long Have It Been Since You’ve Been Home?

Musicians:

• Lightnin' Hopkins (vocal, guitar, piano)

Recording: November 1960 at Nola Penthouse Studios, New York City, by Bob d'Orleans
Production: Nat Hentoff

About Pure Pleasure

At the beginning of the 90s, in the early days of audiophile vinyl re-releases, the situation was fairly straightforward. Companies such as DCC, Mobile Fidelity, Classic Records and, of course, Pure Pleasure all maintained a mutual, unwritten ethical code: we would only use analogue tapes to manufacture records.

During the course of the present vinyl hype, many others have jumped on the bandwagon in the hope of securing a corner of the market. Very often they are not so ethical and use every imaginable source to master from: CDs, LPs, digital files, MP3s – or employed existent tools from the 80s and 90s for manufacturing.

A digital delay is gladly used when cutting a lacquer disc because tape machines with an analogue delay have become quite rare and are therefore expensive. When cutting the lacquer, the audio signal is delayed by one LP revolution against the signal, which controls the cutter head, and for this a digital delay is very often employed. Of course, the resultant sound signal is completely digital and thus only as good as this delay.

We should like to emphasize that Pure Pleasure Records on principle only uses the original master tape as the basis for the entirely analogue cutting of lacquer discs. In addition, the pressing tool is newly manufactured as a matter of principle.

We only employ existing tools for manufacturing if an improved result is not forthcoming, e.g. the title Elvis Is Back, which was mastered by Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray, or several titles from our Philips Classics series, which in any case Willem Makkee cut from the original masters at the Emil Berliner Studios in the 90s. It goes without saying that we only used the mother and that new tools were made for our production.

To put it in a nutshell: we can ensure you that our releases are free from any kind of digital effects and that the lacquer discs are newly cut.

This title is not eligible for discount.

Track Listing:
1. Automobile Blues
2. You Better Watch Yourself
3. Mean Old Frisco
4. Shinin' Moon
5. Come Back Baby
6. Thinkin' 'Bout An Old Friend
7. The Walkin' Blues
8. Back To New Orleans
9. Katie Mae
10. Down There Baby

Although Lightnin' Hopkins had known regional success as a recording artist in the late forties and early fifties, changing musical tastes soon left him without an audience. However, it was not long before a whole new generation of fans - sparked by the blues folk revival - were knocking on Hopkins' door once more. This time it was musicologist Sam Charters who tracked Lightnin' down. Lured by a bottle of gin, Hopkins took Charters back to his one room apartment in Houston and recorded these ten songs (with Charters holding the sole microphone up to Lightnin's guitar). The resulting album, released in 1959 on Folkways, catapulted Hopkins for the very first time into the national spotlight where he was soon being heralded across the country as a giant of the genre.

Track Listing:
1. PENITENTIARY BLUES
2. BAD LUCK AND TROUBLE
3. COME GO HOME WITH ME
4. TROUBLE STAY 'WAY FROM MY DOOR
5. SEE THAT MY GRAVE IS KEPT CLEAN
6. GOIN' BACK TO FLORIDA
7. REMINISCENSES OF BLIND LEMON
8. FAN IT
9. TELL ME, BABY
10. SHE'S MINE

Recorded in Berkeley, CA and Houston, TX during the winter of 1961-62, Lightnin Sam Hopkins features a stripped-down blues trio on some of the most intimate and powerful recordings of Hopkins long and storied career. An absolute classic of electric Texas blues.

Track Listing:
1. Meet At The Chicken Shack
2. Once Was A Gambler
3. Speedin' Boogie
4. Ice Storm Blues
5. California Showers
6. Burnin' In LA
7. Do The Boogie
8. Bald Headed Woman
9. Goin' Out

Lightnin’ Hopkins had already recorded dozens, if not hundreds, of sides for various labels by the time he hooked up with Chris Strachwitz in the late ‘50s, but his recordings for Strachwitz’s Arhoolie label are some of the rawest and strongest of his career. Originally released in 1968, this classic slab of Texas blues is reissued here on high quality vinyl with an exact reproduction of the paste-on sleeve.

Track Listing:
Tom Moore Blues
Watch My Fingers
Little Antoinette
Love Is Like A Hydrant
Cut Me Out Baby
Take A Walk
Slavery
I Would If I Could
Bud Russell Blues
At Home Blues

Hopkins' style emanated from playing most of his life unaccompanied at his own insistence. His fingerstyle picking of playing alternating and monotonic bass, rhythm, lead, and percussion all the while improvising lyrics, even 'talking' his lyrics. He incorporated creative, chromatic turnarounds and single note lead lines. Tapping or slapping the body of his guitar adding his own percussive effects. While most of his songs are standard 12-bar blues, his phrasing was loose and free.

"Hopkins is the embodiment of the jazz-and-poetry spirit, representing its ancient form in the single creator whose words and music are one act." - Robert "Mack" McCormick, Lightnin's producer in the '50s and Smithsonian musicologist

"One of the great country blues and perhaps the greatest single influence on rock guitar players." - New York Times, January 31, 1982

Track Listing:
Side A
1 Walkin' This Road By Myself
2 Black Gal
3 How Many More Years I Got To Let You Dog Me Around
4 Baby Don't You Tear My Clothes
5 Worried Life Blues

Side B
1 Happy Blues For John Glenn
2 Good Morning Little School Girl
3 The Devil Jumped The Black Man
4 Coffee Blues
5 Black Cadillac