Lightnin' Hopkins

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Lightnin’ Hopkins – A Legend In His Own Time
Lightnin Hopkins | Lightnin’ Hopkins – A Legend In His Own Time was Tommy Joe White inspiration.
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Lightnin' Hopkins.
Blues legend Texan Lightnin’ Hopkins made a cigar-box guitar with chicken-wire strings when he was eight. During the course of his lifetime, he recorded more than eighty-five albums and toured the world. Photograph by James Fraher, Copyright James Fraher, 1970
March 15: The Legend Lightnin Hopkins was born in 1912
“Sam Hopkins was a Texas country bluesman of the highest caliber whose career began in the 1920s and stretched all the way into the 1980s. Along the way, Hopkins watched the genre change remarkably, but he never appreciably altered his mournful Lone Star sound, which translated onto both acoustic and electric guitar. Hopkins’ nimble dexterity made intricate boogie riffs seem easy, and his fascinating penchant for improvising lyrics to fit whatever situation might arise made him a beloved blu...