Lightnin Hopkins - Lightnin & The Blues: The Herald Sessions
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Artist: Lightnin HopkinsEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2001-04-17
Music Label: Buddha
Soundtracks:
- Nothin' But The Blues
- Don't Think Cause You're Pretty
- Lightnin's Boogie
- Life I Used To Live
- Sick Feelin' Blues
- Evil Hearted Woman
- Blues For My Cookie
- Sittin' Down Thinkin'
- My Baby's Gone
- Lonesome In Your Home
- Lightnin's Special
- My Little Kewpie Doll
- Shine On Moon
- Had A Gal Called Sal
- Remember Me
- Moving On Out Boogie
Music reviews of Lightnin & The Blues: The Herald Sessions
Music Review: No doubt about it.
Rating: 4 Stars
Sam- I hadn't any doubt that he was one of the greats since the first time I heard him pickin' on his aladdin recordings which I suggest over this. This is great though also. First off this is 40:00 minutes so it is a decent length. 2ndly it is a rare Electric Lightin'. It doesn't show his full guitar playing like his solo acoustic work often does like his use of playing bass lines and treble melodies at once. To hear his style of lead playing on an electric though is really an earful. It is serious and shows real roots of Rock Classics too. Sam could have easily been a Chuck Berry or the like, but this is better anyway. The amazing technical prowess overshadows the repetition. Look at it like Robert Johnson's songs where he uses certain rythms and leads frequently but only as a backdrop or a springboard [ And Robert never soloed much, so lightin' has him up there]. The rythm section is part of what stops lightnin' from showing his skills as a guitar player who can play rythm and lead at the same time, though the drums and bass on the slow tunes is usually neither a harm nor a hurt, the fast tunes I think Benefit heavily from the support. On the fast boogies Lightin' does show that he is not pure slow blues here: after all, Sam used to be an entertainer who made people dance. Some of these foot stompers are in such contrast to the slow blues it is pretty much what early rock boogies were based on and shows some mind-boggling playing from lightning with leads and chording. This record is great but then again I like anything I have ever heard by lightnin' and do suggest atleast 2 lightnin' records for all fans of deep down blues. The Complete Aladdin Recordings two cd set and Texas Blues. If you like and have those than I suggest this one too. Anyone that says that lightning isn't technically able because of some of the repetition in licks, is really not hearing what he's playing. Give it a chance. When he does play things over- the notes are so good that I just like hearing them again I don't get bored with it at all. They're tried and true things he repeats. Anyway I think this is very solid and also interesting is the song ''Life I used to Live.'' This is credited as an Eddie Jones [Guitar Slim] song. The music was taken from the song ' The Things that I used to do ' but Lightnin' changed the words almost completely. He made it about a man changing his life and going back to his religous ways. This is not what Slim's song was about but anyway, the melody is the same. Lightnin' even sounds like he's using the beginning of this song once or twice elsewhere. It was an interesting ''cover'' anyway. There's some odd reverb on Sam's voice in parts but overall an excellent set of blues music. Fast tunes, slow tunes, in the middle onces too, all perfect examples of what they are. I believe this was done in 1954. It says on the notes that if you had one of the original copies that it would be worth over 1,000 dollars. Impressive huh?
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