Lightning Hopkins with His Brothers Joel and John Henry / with Barbara Dane explained

Lightning Hopkins with His Brothers Joel and John Henry / with Barbara Dane
Type:Live album
Artist:Lightnin' Hopkins, Joel Hopkins, John Henry Hopkins and Barbara Dane
Cover:Lightning_Hopkins_with_His_Brothers_Joel_and_John_Henry_and_Barbara_Dane.jpg
Released:1966
Recorded:February 1964 and June 18, 1964
Venue:Waxahachie, TX and The Cabale, Berkeley, CA
Genre:Blues
Length:42:09
Label:Arhoolie
Producer:Chris Strachwitz
Chronology:Lightnin' Hopkins
Prev Title:Soul Blues
Prev Year:1965
Next Title:My Life in the Blues
Next Year:1965

Lightning Hopkins with His Brothers Joel and John Henry / with Barbara Dane is an album by blues musician Lightnin' Hopkins recorded in Texas and California in 1964 and released on the Arhoolie label.[1] The original album was split with one side featuring tracks with Hopkins and His Brothers and the other performances with Barbara Dane.[2] In 1991 through Smithsonian Folkways, Arhoolie released the Hopkins Brothers tracks on CD as The Hopkins Brothers: Joel, Lightning & John Henry with additional unreleased recordings,[3] then in 1994 the tracks with Barbara Dane were released as Sometimes I Believe She Loves Me with unreleased tracks.[4]

Track listing

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

Side one

  1. "See About My Brother John Henry" – 4:19
  2. "Hot Blooded Woman" (John Henry Hopkins) – 2:03
  3. "Black Hannah" – 6:00
  4. "I Walked from Dallas" (Joel Hopkins) – 3:47
  5. "Going Back to Baden-Baden" – 4:18

Side two

  1. "Sometimes She Loves Me" – 4:51
  2. "You Got Another Man" – 3:38
  3. "I'm Going Back, Baby" (Hopkins, Barbara Dane) – 5:28
  4. "Mother Earth" – 5:36
  5. "Jesus Won't You Come By Here" (Traditional) – 2:07

Personnel

Performance

Production

Notes and References

  1. https://www.wirz.de/music/hopkins.htm Wirz' American Music: Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins discography
  2. https://www.discogs.com/Lightning-Hopkins-Lightning-Hopkins-With-His-Brothers-Joel-And-John-Henry-And-With-Barbara-Dane/release/3093519 Discogs album entry
  3. https://folkways.si.edu/hopkins-brothers-joel-lightning-john-henry/blues/music/album/smithsonian Smithsonian Folkway Recordings: The Hopkins Brothers album details
  4. https://folkways.si.edu/hopkins-brothers-joel-lightning-john-henry/blues/music/album/smithsonian Smithsonian Folkway Recordings: The Hopkins Brothers album details

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