| Lightning Hopkins Sings the Blues | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Lightnin' Hopkins |
| Cover: | Lightning Hopkins Sings the Bues.jpg |
| Released: | 1961 |
| Recorded: | October 1947–1951 |
| Studio: | Gold Star Studios, Houston, TX |
| Genre: | Blues |
| Length: | 25:50 |
| Label: | Crown |
| Chronology: | Lightnin' Hopkins |
| Prev Title: | Lightnin' Hopkins Strums the Blues |
| Prev Year: | 1958 |
| Next Title: | Last of the Great Blues Singers |
| Next Year: | 1960 |
Lightning Hopkins Sings the Blues, also released as Original Folk Blues, is a 12-inch LP album by blues musician Lightnin' Hopkins collecting tracks recorded between 1947 and 1951 that were originally released as 10-inch 78rpm records on the RPM label.[1] [2] [3] The album was released on the Mainstream Records low budget, Crown subsidiary and was an early 12-inch LP collections of Lightnin' Hopkins material recorded at Gold Star Studios to be released. In 1999 a double CD collection of Jake Head Boogie was released containing all of the Hopkins recordings released by the RPM label along with several previously unreleased recordings.
All compositions by Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins