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Lightnin' Hopkins
Samuel John "Lightnin" Hopkins was an American country blues singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional pianist from Centerville, Texas. In 2010, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him No. 71 on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.
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Texas bluesman Samuel "Lightnin'" Hopkins' musical career was reignited by this 1959 release. With the aid of a little gin and a borrowed acoustic guitar, musicologist Sam Charters recorded Hopkins in his tiny apartment in Houston, Texas.
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Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins was a bluesman who carried on the old country cotton-field style of the early Texas blues. In fact, blues historian Samuel Charters has called Hopkins the last of the old country bluesmen. Hopkins had a rough, unpolished singing style that remained pretty much the same throughout his career of more than 50 years..
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Sage, scoundrel and natural-born storyteller, Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins had a genius for improvised poetry, creating new verses or entire songs as the spirit moved him. He could sing about hairstyles, being broke, how his car was doing, goings-on in the club where he was performing, or the way things used to be.
Sam “Lightnin’” Hopkins (19121982)
Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins, blues singer, guitarist, and songwriter, was born in Centerville, Texas in 1912 to sharecropping parents whose exact identities are unknown. At eight, Hopkins met legendary bluesman Blind Lemon Jefferson at a social function in Buffalo, Texas.
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Lightnin' Hopkins. Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins (March 15, 1912 - January 30, 1982) was a blues guitar musician, from Houston, Texas who became a popular recording artist on the R&B charts in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and then experienced even greater success among white audiences during the blues revival of the 1960s.
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Lightnin' was born Sam Hopkins in Centerville in 1912. He had two older brothers, but his father died in 1915 when Hopkins was only 3 years old. Sam Hopkins rambled around the churches and beer joints of Leon County with blues legend Blind Lemon Jefferson and his own larger-than-life cousin Texas Alexander. Both men had a lasting impact on.
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Lightning hopkins Greatest Hits (Full Album)Samuel John "Lightnin'" Hopkins (March 15, 1912 - January 30, 1982) [1] was an American country blues singer, song.
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Sam (Lightnin') Hopkins, blues singer and guitarist, was born in Centerville, Texas, on March 15, probably in 1911. Though some sources give his year of birth as 1912, his Social Security application listed the year as 1911. He was the son of Abe and Frances (Sims) Hopkins.
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Sam 'Lightnin' Hopkins was a master stylist of Blues guitar, who had an engaging talent for improvising humorous lyrics to his vast repertoire of songs. His complex guitar work had the flavour of early Texas Blues styles, and although his voice was dry and scratchy, his songs and the spontaneous stories he told at his gigs were rich, poetical.
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Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins Original Name Samuel John Hopkins Birth 15 Mar 1912 Centerville, Leon County, Texas, USA Death 30 Jan 1982 (aged 69) Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA Burial Forest Park Cemetery Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA Show Map Plot Section 23 (Lawn View), Lot 266, Space 11. From the road, he's southwest of the Zuchowski grave
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Houston-based Fast Cut Films, in association with Sunset Productions, is working on a documentary feature film, "Where Lightnin' Strikes," about the life and times of Houston blues legend Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins (1912-1982). The enduring musical journey of Sam Lightnin' Hopkins began on a cotton farm in Centerville,Texas in 1912.
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Sage, scoundrel and natural-born storyteller, Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins had a genius for improvised poetry, creating new verses or entire songs as the spirit moved him. He could sing about hairstyles, being broke, how his car was doing, goings-on in the club where he was performing, or the way things used to be.
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Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins Sam John Hopkins b. March 15, 1911 in Centerville, Leon County, Texas d. January 30, 1982 at St. Joseph Hospital in Houston, Texas buried at Forest Park Cemetery in Houston, Texas discography: Man at Work !!! (Please do not comment until I'm stumped, i.e. until this piece of advice has disappeared ;-) #
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0:00 / 4:44 Sam Lightnin' Hopkins - Cotton fischkopf 22.2K subscribers Subscribe 8.4K Share Save 1.3M views 16 years ago The enduring musical journey of Sam Lightnin' Hopkins began on a cotton.
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Tracklist:00:00 - Meet You at the Chicken Shack05:40 - Once Was a Gambler10:37 - Speedin' Boogie13:47 - Ice Storm Blues21:06 - California Showers28:54 - Burn.