| Free Form Patterns | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Lightnin' Hopkins |
| Cover: | Free Form Patterns.jpg |
| Released: | 1968 |
| Recorded: | February 1, 1968 |
| Studio: | International Artists Studio, Houston, TX |
| Genre: | Blues |
| Length: | 43:11 |
| Label: | International Artists |
| Producer: | Lelan Rogers |
| Chronology: | Lightnin' Hopkins |
| Prev Title: | Talkin' Some Sense |
| Prev Year: | 1968 |
| Next Title: | The Great Electric Show and Dance |
| Next Year: | 1969 |
Free Form Patterns (also released as Reflections) is an album by the blues musician Lightnin' Hopkins backed by the rhythm section of the 13th Floor Elevators, recorded in Texas in 1968 and released on the International Artists label.[1] [2] [3]
AllMusic's Al Campbell stated: "While not as revolutionary as John Lee Hooker's sessions with Canned Heat, Free Form Patterns steers clear of the late-'60s psychedelic trappings that screwed up such similar sessions as Electric Mud. No one tried to bend Hopkins to fit a foreign musical approach on Free Form Patterns; he made the music bend to him". Record Collector observed that "Free Form Patterns isn't some hippy hybrid, it's a pure blues album – actually, scrub that; it's a pure Lightnin’ Hopkins album".[4] The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings wrote: "Despite these interpolations it's a rather lacklustre affair".[5]
All compositions by Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins except where noted