Lightnin' Hopkins Strums the Blues explained

Lightnin' Hopkins Strums the Blues
Type:	Album
Artist:	Lightnin' Hopkins
Cover:	Lightnin' Hopkins Strums the Blues.jpg
Released:	1958
Recorded:	November 9, 1946, August 15, 1947 and February 25, 1948
Studio:	Radio Recorders, Los Angeles, CA and Commercial Studios, Houston, TX
Genre:	Blues
Label:	Score
Chronology:	Lightnin' Hopkins
Prev Title:	Early Recordings Vol. 2
Prev Year:	1971
Next Title:	Lightning Hopkins Sings the Blues
Next Year:	1961

Lightnin' Hopkins Strums the Blues is an album by blues musician Lightnin' Hopkins featuring tracks recorded between 1946 and 1948 which were originally released as 10-inch 78rpm records on the Aladdin label.^{[1] [2] [3]} The album was one of the first 12-inch LP collections of Lightnin' Hopkins material to be released. In 1991 a double CD collection of The Complete Aladdin Recordings was released containing all of the recordings Hopkins made for the label.

Track listing

All compositions by Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins except where noted

1. "Katie May" – 3:00
2. "My California" – 2:30
3. "Honey-Babe" (Max Steiner, Paul Francis Webster) – 2:30
4. "Short Haired Woman" – 2:25
5. "Little Mama Blues" aka "Big Mama Jump" – 2:40
6. "Shotgun" aka "Shotgun Blues" – 2:36
7. "Rollin' and Rollin'" aka "Rollin' Blues" – 2:40
8. "See See Rider" (Ma Rainey) – 2:35
9. "So Long" – 2:40
10. "Mistreated" aka "Mistreated Blues" – 2:35

• Recorded at Radio Recorders in Los Angeles on November 9, 1946 (track 1) and August 15, 1947 (tracks 4 & 5) and at Commercial Studios in Houston on February 25, 1948 (tracks 2, 3 & 6–10)

Personnel

• Lightnin' Hopkins – guitar, vocals
• Wilson "Thunder" Smith – piano (track 1)

Notes and References

1. https://www.bsnpubs.com/aladdin/score.html Both Sides Now: Score Album Discography
2. https://www.wirz.de/music/hopkins.htm Wirz' American Music: Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins discography
3. O'Brien, T. J. Lightnin' Album of the Week: Week 1- August 28, 2010 accessed November 21, 2018