Lightnin' Hopkins • Lightnin' Strikes

Review by Cub Koda

This brings together some early-'60s sides that Hopkins recorded for the Chicago-based Vee-Jay label, although all of them were recorded in his native Houston. Lightnin's spoken introduction sets up the hilarious "Big Car Blues," part of five live tracks aboard, before setting up eight heavily reverbed studio tracks from Bill Quinn's Gold Star Studios. The final two are full-band tracks produced by drummer King Ivory Lee Semiens with Lightnin' playing electric, the band following his erratic timing as best as they can. While the material on here is classic Lightnin', the sound is dodgy throughout, the live tracks pulled from vinyl and distorting out in several spots. If you can find the live material on another compilation and can audition it before buying, pass this one by.

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Revisión por Cub Koda

Esto reúne algunos aspectos de los primeros años de la década de los 60 que Hopkins grabó para el sello Vee-Jay de Chicago, aunque todos ellos se registraron en su Houston natal. La introducción hablada de Lightnin configura los divertidos "Big Car Blues", parte de cinco pistas en vivo a bordo, antes de configurar ocho pistas de estudio muy reverberadas de los Estudios de la Estrella de Oro de Bill Quinn. Los dos últimos son pistas de banda completa producidas por el baterista King Ivory Lee Semiens con Lightnin tocando el ritmo eléctrico, la banda sigue su tiempo errático lo mejor que puede. Si bien el material aquí es clásico Lightnin ', el sonido es poco fiable, las pistas en vivo se extraen del vinilo y se distorsionan en varios puntos. Si puede encontrar el material en vivo en otra compilación y puede escucharlo antes de comprarlo, pase este.

Track listing:
1. Got Me a Louisiana Woman
2. Want to Come Home
3. Please Don't Quit Me
4. Devil Is Watching You
5. Rolling and Rolling
6. War Is Starting Again
7. Walkin' Round in Circles
8. Mary Lou
9. Heavy Snow
10. Coon Is Hard to Catch

Label: Vee Jay Records ‎– 1044
Released: 26 May 1962
Genre: Blues
Style: Texas Blues

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