Lightnin'_Strikes_(Verve_Folkways_album)

<i>Lightnin' Strikes</i> (Verve Folkways album)

Lightnin' Strikes (Verve Folkways album)

1966 studio album by Lightnin' Hopkins

This article is about the Lightnin' Hopkins album released on Verve Folkways in 1966. For the Lightnin' Hopkins album released on Vee-Jay in 1962, see Lightnin' Strikes (Vee-Jay album).

Lightnin' Strikes (reissued as Nothin' But the Blues) is an album by blues musician Lightnin' Hopkins recorded in Los Angeles in 1965 and released on the Vee-Jay label.[1][2][3]

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Cub Koda, writing for AllMusic, described a later compilation featuring the entire album as an "interesting collection" and opined, "For a hodgepodge of leftovers, there's a lot of great Lightnin' on here."[4]

Track listing

All compositions by Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins

  1. "Mojo Hand" – 3:13
  2. "Little Wail" – 2:50
  3. "Cotton" – 5:57
  4. "Take Me Back" – 2:55
  5. "Nothin' But the Blues" – 5:15
  6. "Hurricane Betsy" – 5:45
  7. "Guitar Lightnin'" – 4:12
  8. "Woke Up This Morning" – 4:20
  9. "Shake Yourself" – 4:15

Personnel

Performance

References

  1. [1]
    Both Sides Now: Verve Folkways/Forecast Discography accessed November 12, 2018
  2. [2]
    Wirz' American Music: Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins discography accessed November 12, 2018
  3. [3]
    O'Brien, T. J. Lightnin' Album of the Week: Week 24 February 19, 2011 accessed November 12, 2018
  4. [4]
    Coda, Cub. Lightnin' Hopkins: Nothin' But the Blues, Pt. 4 – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved November 12, 2018.
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