Lightnin' Hopkins
Lightnin' Hopkins - S/T LP
$35.00
Before it was recorded, in 1959, the bluesman had disappeared from sight;
after a great deal of searching, he was found in a rented one-room apartment
in Houston. Persuading Lightnin' with a bottle of gin, Sam Charters convinced
Hopkins to record ten songs in that room, using only one microphone. The
resulting record was one of the greatest albums in Hopkins' catalog, a skeletal
record that is absolutely naked in its loneliness and haunting in its despair.
after a great deal of searching, he was found in a rented one-room apartment
in Houston. Persuading Lightnin' with a bottle of gin, Sam Charters convinced
Hopkins to record ten songs in that room, using only one microphone. The
resulting record was one of the greatest albums in Hopkins' catalog, a skeletal
record that is absolutely naked in its loneliness and haunting in its despair.
