Live at Newport (Lightnin' Hopkins album) explained

Live at Newport
Type:	Live album
Artist:	Lightnin' Hopkins
Cover:	Live at Newport (Lightnin' Hopkins album).jpg
Released:	2002
Recorded:	July 24, 1965
Venue:	Newport Folk Festival, Newport, RI
Genre:	Blues
Length:	40:28
Label:	Vanguard
Producer:	Tom Vickers
Chronology:	Lightnin' Hopkins
Prev Title:	Blue Lightnin'
Prev Year:	1967
Next Title:	Lightnin' Strikes
Next Year:	1966

Live at Newport is a live album by the blues musician Lightnin' Hopkins, recorded at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965.^{[1] [2]} Several tracks were released on three Vanguard Records compilation albums, The Great Blues Men (1971), Great Bluesmen Newport (1977), and Blues with a Feeling (1993), before the complete performance was released on CD in 2002.^{[3] [4]}

Reception

AllMusic reviewer Ronnie D. Lankford Jr. wrote: "Recorded in 1965, Live at Newport captures Hopkins in a loose mood communing with an appreciative audience. The mostly solo electric set apparently didn't cause any controversy (as Dylan's electric set with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band would in 1965). The nice thing about the album is that all the material seems to have come from the same set, giving the listener a taste of what seeing Hopkins at Newport might have been like. ... Live at Newport also includes several unreleased versions, making it a good album to add to one's Hopkins collection". The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings noted: "This amiable set from the Newport Folk Festival is stocked, as might be expected, with common pieces ... but includes long, ostensibly autobiographical 'Cotton Patch Blues'. Although Lightnin' says several times he needs to warm up his fingers, he pulls off some startling guitar runs".^[5]

Track listing

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

1. Introduction by Michael Bloomfield – 0:56
2. "Where Can I Find My Baby?" – 3:15
3. "Baby Please Don't Go" (Traditional) – 3:16 Originally released on Blues with a Feeling
4. "Mojo Hand" – 3:55
5. "Trouble in Mind" (Richard M. Jones) – 2:40
6. "The Woman I'm Loving, She's Taken My Appetite" – 4:01 Originally released on Blues with a Feeling
7. "Come On Baby" – 2:11 Originally released on Blues with a Feeling
8. "Cotton Patch Blues" – 8:34 Originally released in edited form as "Cotton Field Blues" on The Great Blues Men
9. "Instrumental" – 3:55
10. "Jealous of My Wife" – 2:59
11. "Every Day About This Time (Instrumental)" – 2:58
12. "Shake That Thing" – 1:41 Originally released on Great Bluesmen Newport

Personnel

Performance

• Lightnin' Hopkins – guitar, vocals
• Sam Lay – drums (tracks 8–12)

Production

• Tom Vickers – compilation producer
• Jeff Zaraya – engineer
• Barry Ridge – art director
• Drew Cartwright – graphic design
• John Milward – liner notes
• Doug Fulton, Ray Flerlage – photography

Notes and References

1. https://acousticmusic.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Newport-Schedule-1965.pdf 1965 Newport Folk Festival Program
2. http://www.mikebloomfieldamericanmusic.com/newport.htm Michael Bloomfield at Newport
3. http://www.bsnpubs.com/new/vanguard.pdf Both Sides Now: Discography of the Vanguard Label
4. https://www.wirz.de/music/hopkins.htm Wirz' American Music: Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins discography
5. Book: Russell, Tony. Smith, Chris. The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings. 2006. Penguin. London. 978-0-140-51384-4. 281.