The Complete Prestige/Bluesville Recordings

Lightnin Hopkins - The Complete Prestige/Bluesville Recordings

The Complete Prestige/Bluesville Recordings
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Artist: Lightnin Hopkins
Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 1991-11-05
Music Label: Prestige
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Rocky Mountain
  2. Got To Move Your Baby
  3. So Sorry To Leave You
  4. Take A Trip With Me
  5. Last Night Blues
  6. Lightnin's Stroke
  7. Hard To Love A Woman
  8. Conversation Blues
  9. Automobile Blues
  10. You Better Watch Yourself
  11. Mean Old Frisco
  12. Shinin' Moon
  13. Come Back Baby
  14. Thinkin' 'Bout An Old Friend
  15. The Walkin' Blues
  16. Back To New Orleans
  17. Katie Mae
  18. Down There Baby
Music CD 2
  1. Black Gal
  2. Baby Don't You Tear My Clothes
  3. Good Morning Little School Girl
  4. Coffee Blues
  5. Buddy Brown's Blues (98 Degree Blues)
  6. Wine Spodee-O-Dee
  7. Sail On, Little Girl, Sail On
  8. DC-7
  9. Death Bells
  10. Goin' To Dallas To See My Pony Run
  11. Jailhouse Blues
  12. Blues In The Bottle
  13. Beans, Beans, Beans
  14. Catfish Blues
  15. My Grandpa Is Old Too!
  16. T Model Blues
  17. Jackstropper Blues
  18. You Cook All Right
  19. You Never Miss Your Water
  20. Let's Do The Suzie Q
  21. Smokes Like Lightning
Music CD 3
  1. How Many More Years I Got To Let You Dog Me Around
  2. Black Cadillac
  3. Walkin' This Road By Myself
  4. The Devil Jumped The Black Man
  5. My Baby Don't Stand No Cheating
  6. You Is One Black Rat
  7. The Fox Chase
  8. Mojo Hand
  9. Mama Blues
  10. My Black Name
  11. Ida Mae
  12. Prison Farm Blues
  13. Worried Life Blues
  14. Happy Blues For John Glenn
  15. Sinner's Prayer
  16. Angel Child
  17. I Got A Leak In This Old Building
  18. Pneumonia Blues
  19. Have You Ever Been Mistreated
Music CD 4
  1. Blues Is A Feeling
  2. Me And Ray Charles
  3. In The Evening
  4. Ain't It Crazy
  5. Last Night I Lost The Best Friend I Ever Had
  6. Everything
  7. I Work Down On The Chain Gang
  8. Meet Me In The Bottom
  9. Business You're Doin'
  10. Wake Up Old Lady
  11. Stranger Here
  12. Don't Embarrass Me, Babe
  13. Little Sister's Boogie
  14. Goin' Away
  15. You Better Stop Her
  16. I'm Wit' It
  17. Let's Go Sit On The Lawn
  18. I Woke Up This Morning
Music CD 5
  1. The Swarthmore Concert-Baby, Please Don't Go
  2. The Swarthmore Concert-My Black Cadillac
  3. The Swarthmore Concert-It's Crazy
  4. The Swarthmore Concert-Mojo Hand
  5. The Swarthmore Concert-My Babe
  6. The Swarthmore Concert-Short Haired Woman
  7. The Swarthmore Concert-Mean Old Frisco
  8. The Swarthmore Concert-Trouble In Mind
  9. The Swarthmore Concert-The Twister
  10. The Swarthmore Concert-Green Onion
  11. The Swarthmore Concert-Sun Goin' Down
  12. The Swarthmore Concert-Come Go Home With Me
  13. The Swarthmore Concert-I'm A Stranger
  14. I Got Tired
  15. I Like To Boogie
  16. I Asked The Bossman
  17. I'm Taking A Devil Of A Chance
  18. Just A Wristwatch On My Arm
Music CD 6
  1. I Was Standing On 75 Highway
  2. Get It Straight
  3. I'm Going To Build Me A Heaven Of My Own
  4. My Babe
  5. Too Many Drivers
  6. I'm A Crawling Black Snake
  7. Rocky Mountain Blues
  8. I Mean Goodbye
  9. The Howling Wolf
  10. Black Ghost Blues
  11. Darling, Do You Remember Me?
  12. Lonesome Graveyard
  13. I Don't Want To Do Nothing To You
  14. You Is One Black Rat
  15. Got Nowhere To Lay My Head
  16. Just Boogyin'
  17. Take Me Back
  18. I Was Down On Dowling Street
Music CD 7
  1. I Growed Up With The Blues
  2. My Family
  3. I Learn About The Blues
  4. I First Come Into Houston
  5. I Meet Texas Alexander
  6. They Was Hard Times
  7. I Do My First Record And Get My Name
  8. My Thoughts On The Blues

Music reviews of The Complete Prestige/Bluesville Recordings

Music Review: How Much Is Too Much?
Rating: 3 Stars

Lightnin' Hopkins was extremely over-recorded during the 1960s, a fact that this set makes blindingly clear. The best stuff here is Lightnin' solo with guitar, or with an acoustic bass and drums. The sessions with a thrown together pick-up band are painful to listen to, particularly with the harmonica player and pianist. Lightnin' wasn't Muddy Waters. He didn't have Willie Dixon writing songs for him with bridges and nice long sections for a harmonicist or pianist to stretch out on, like Muddy did. In Lightnin's music, a harmonica and piano is simply extra baggage that distract from the song rather than add to it. Furthermore, a lot of the songs here are just inferior repeats of songs that he had recorded earlier (in better versions) during his peak years (1946-1954).

Finally, they could have used the original mono mixes, but chose instead to use stereo mixes. Anyone who is into vintage blues and R&B at all can tell you that this stuff *always* sounds better in mono, especially if it's just a three-piece band. The punch and impact is gone.

Unless you're a total Lightnin' freak, I'd recommend just buying the individual CDs that feature Lightnin' solo. And if you get a chance to pick up the original albums in mono, take it.
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Lightnin' Hopkins, the seminal Texas bluesman, was rediscovered in the 1960s when the folk revival made folk and country-blues musicians hot news. This seven-CD set includes much of Hopkins's work during that period, though he recorded for so many different labels that getting everything is well-nigh impossible. This is a good start, though, including as it does some concert recordings in addition to studio reissues and interviews. Hopkins's mastery of mood and technique makes this a chronicle not only of historical interest, but musical as well; while Hopkins's musical style didn't change much over the course of his multidecade career, he was certainly among the best at what he did. --Genevieve Williams

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