Latest Release
- 12 JUN 2023
- 3 Songs
- Lightnin' Hopkins: The Complete Aladdin Recordings · 1991
- The Gold Star Sessions, Vol. 2 · 1990
- The Very Best of Lightnin' Hopkins (Expanded Edition) · 1973
- The Complete Prestige / Bluesville Recordings · 1962
- Mojo Hand · 1962
- Lightnin'! · 1967
- Texas Blues · 1994
- The Fire & Fury Story (Disc 3) · 2003
- Houston & Shreveport Sessions '63 to '69 · 1969
- Lightnin' and the Blues: The Herald Sessions · 1955
Essential Albums
Music Videos
- 2021
Artist Playlists
- An astronomical blues talent from the Lone Star State.
Appears On
- Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
About 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
- BORN
- 15 March 1912
- GENRE
- Blues