• Down Home Blues is an album by blues musician Lightnin' Hopkins recorded in 1964 and released on the Bluesville label. The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings...
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    Samuel John "Lightnin'" Hopkins (March 15, 1912 – January 30, 1982) was an American country blues singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional pianist...
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  • song by George Jackson Down Home Blues (Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry album), 1960 Down Home Blues (Lightnin' Hopkins album), 1965 This disambiguation...
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  • Lightnin' and the Blues is a 12-inch LP album by blues musician Lightnin' Hopkins, collecting twelve tracks recorded in 1954 that were originally released...
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  • Down South Summit Meetin' (also released as First Meetin' and Lightnin' Hopkins & The Blues Summit) is an album by the blues musicians Brownie McGhee,...
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  • Lightnin'! is an album by the blues musician Lightnin' Hopkins recorded in California in 1969 and released on the Poppy label as a double LP. Poppy Records...
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  • Texas Blues Man is an album by the blues musician Lightnin' Hopkins, recorded in Texas in late 1967 and released on the Arhoolie label. The Penguin Guide...
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  • Soul Blues is an album by the blues musician Lightnin' Hopkins, recorded in 1963 and released on the Bluesville label. The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings...
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  • The Swarthmore Concert (category Lightnin' Hopkins live albums)
    The Swarthmore Concert, subtitled King of the Blues, is a live album by the blues musician Lightnin' Hopkins, recorded at the Swarthmore College Folk Festival...
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  • several other deceased blues guitarists: Jimi Hendrix (as the "voodoo child"), Albert Collins, Muddy Waters, and Lightnin' Hopkins. Its refrain includes...
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    Guy, Lightnin' Hopkins, and Muddy Waters. Mahal stayed with Columbia for his solo career, releasing the self-titled Taj Mahal and The Natch'l Blues in 1968...
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    Stevie Ray Vaughan (category American blues guitarists)
    influences at Antone's, including Buddy Guy, Hubert Sumlin, Jimmy Rogers, Lightnin' Hopkins, and Albert King. Vaughan toured with the Cobras during much of 1977...
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    releasing two albums with the band, she left Big Brother to continue as a solo artist with her own backing groups, first the Kozmic Blues Band and then...
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    Barbara Dane (category American blues singers)
    It Through (Paredon, 1982) Sometimes I Believe She Loves Me with Lightnin' Hopkins (Arhoolie, 1996) What Are You Gonna Do When There Ain't No Jazz? (GHB...
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    Brownie McGhee (category American blues guitarists)
    1959) Down South Summit Meetin' (World Pacific, 1960), with Lightnin' Hopkins and Big Joe Williams Down Home Blues (Bluesville, 1960) Blues Hoot (Horizon...
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    Sonny Terry (category American blues harmonica players)
    Lightnin' Hopkins and Big Joe Williams Down Home Blues (Bluesville, 1960), with Brownie McGhee Blues in My Soul (Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry album)...
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    blues revival of the 1960s and 1970s, acoustic blues artist Taj Mahal and Texas bluesman Lightnin' Hopkins wrote and performed music that figured prominently...
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    Susan Tedeschi (category American blues guitarists)
    old vinyl recordings of musicians such as Mississippi John Hurt and Lightnin' Hopkins. Raised as a Catholic, she found little inspiration in the church...
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  • musicians Lightnin' Hopkins, Guy Clark, Jerry Jeff Walker, and Doc Watson. His repertoire consisted mostly of covers of songs written by Hopkins, Bob Dylan...
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  • and Sonny Terry Down South Summit Meetin' (World Pacific, 1960) with Lightnin' Hopkins and Big Joe Williams A Long Way from Home (BluesWay, 1969) I Couldn't...
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    The Blues Hall of Fame is a music museum operated by the Blues Foundation at 421 S. Main Street in Memphis, Tennessee. Initially, the "Blues Hall of Fame"...
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    Lightnin' Hopkins, and Lonesome Sundown. In 1969 he performed for the first time outside the United States, at a program in Montreal with Lightnin' Hopkins...
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    blues, as played by Blind Willie Johnson, Robert Johnson, and Blind Lemon Jefferson and all those little dudes, y’know. Since I met Lightnin' Hopkins...
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    "When I Came Down" and "Song for Jim", the latter of which being a reference to Jim Simpson, who was a manager for the bands Bakerloo Blues Line and Tea...
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  • the Record Plant. Caruso described it as "very simple, pure, like Lightnin' Hopkins' earlier work." It is included on West Coast Seattle Boy: The Jimi...
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  • (December 11, 1926 – July 25, 1984), was an American singer and songwriter of blues and R&B. The Encyclopedia of Pop, Rock and Soul described Thornton saying...
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    B. B. King (redirect from Blues Boy King)
    House: Red, White and Blues," during which President Barack Obama sang part of "Sweet Home Chicago". King recorded for the debut album of rapper and producer...
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    John Sebastian (category American blues harmonica players)
    influenced by blues musicians Sonny Terry and Lightnin' Hopkins (for whom Sebastian served as "unofficial tour guide and valet" when Hopkins was in New York...
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    filmmaker Les Blank to LightninHopkins, Mance Lipscomb, and Clifton Chenier. Blank made The Blues Accordin’ to LightninHopkins, A Well Spent Life (on...
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    Etta James (category American blues singers)
    Grammy Awards for her albums (2005 - Best Traditional Blues Album for Blues to the Bone; 2004 - Best Contemporary Blues Album for Let's Roll; and 1995...
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