Lightnin' Hopkins

Object Details

Local Numbers: FW-ASCH-LP-0111 FW03822 Folkways.3822
Publication, Distribution, Etc. (Imprint): New York Folkways 1959
Participant or Performer Note: Performer(s): Lightnin' Hopkins, guitar and voice.
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note: Recorded at 2803 Hadley St., Houston, Texas, Jan. 16, 1959 by Samuel B. Charters.
General: Program notes with biographical information by Sam Charters (4 p. : ill.) inserted in container.

Producer: Charters, Samuel Barclay, 1929-2015
Commentator: Charters, Samuel Barclay, 1929-2015
Artist: Hopkins, Lightnin', 1912-1982
Performer: Hopkins, Lightnin', 1912-1982
Collection Creator: Asch, Moses; Distler, Marian, 1919-1964; Folkways Records

See more items in: Moses and Frances Asch Collection; Moses and Frances Asch Collection / Series 9: Audio Recordings / LP

Collection Citation: Moses and Frances Asch Collection, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.

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Track Information: 101. Penitentiary blues. (2:45). 102. Bad luck and trouble. (3:40). 103. Come go home with me. (3:45). 104. Trouble stay way from my door. (4:00). 105. See that my grave is kept clean. (2:05). 201. Goin' back to Florida. (3:10). 202. Reminiscences of Blind Lemon. (2:10). 203. Fan it. (2:40). 204. Tell Me, Baby. (2:30). 205. She's mine. (4:10).