Join others and track this album
Scrobble, find and rediscover music with a Last.fm account
- Length
- 10 tracks
- Release Date
- 26 May 1962
Join others and track this album
Scrobble, find and rediscover music with a Last.fm account
- Length
- 10 tracks
- Release Date
- 26 May 1962
This brings together some early-'60s sides that Hopkins recorded for the Chicago-based Vee-Jay label, although all of them were recorded in his native Houston. Lightnin's spoken introduction sets up the hilarious "Big Car Blues," part of five live tracks aboard, before setting up eight heavily reverbed studio tracks from Bill Quinn's Gold Star Studios. The final two are full-band tracks produced by drummer King Ivory Lee Semiens with Lightnin' playing electric, the band following his erratic timing as best as they can. While the material on here is clas… read more
This brings together some early-'60s sides that Hopkins recorded for the Chicago-based Vee-Jay label, although all of them were recorded in his … read more
This brings together some early-'60s sides that Hopkins recorded for the Chicago-based Vee-Jay label, although all of them were recorded in his native Houston. Lightnin's spoke… read more
Don't want to see ads? Upgrade Now