- The Best of Lightnin' Hopkins · 1960
- Soul Blues (Remastered) · 1964
- Lightnin' · 1961
- The Best of Lightnin' Hopkins · 1962
- The Best of Lightnin' Hopkins · 1963
- L.A. Blues · 1995
- The Best of Lightnin' Hopkins · 1962
- The Best of Lightnin' Hopkins · 1999
- Take It Easy · 1995
- The Best of Lightnin' Hopkins · 1961
- Masters of the Last Century: Best of Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins · 2004
- Take It Easy · 1995
- L.A. Blues · 1995
Albums
- 1995
- 1995
Compilations
About Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins
Some artists are influential because so many followers try to imitate them; others are influential precisely because they cannot be imitated. Lightnin' Hopkins was of the latter variety. With a career that stretched from the 1920s through the '70s, the Texas bluesman was a genre unto himself, a deft guitarist equally at home in a quiet solo performance or fronting an electrified boogie band. He was a free-associating poet who made up entire songs on the spot, and a leathery-voiced singer whose vocals simultaneously communicated a lifetime of misery and an endless reserve of self-confidence.
- HOMETOWN
- Centerville, TX, United States of America
- BORN
- 15 March 1912
- GENRE
- Blues