| My Life in the Blues | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Lightnin' Hopkins |
| Cover: | My Life in the Blues.jpg |
| Released: | 1965 |
| Recorded: | December 2, 1964 |
| Studio: | Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ |
| Genre: | Blues |
| Length: | 64:26 |
| Label: | Prestige |
| Producer: | Samuel Charters |
| Chronology: | Lightnin' Hopkins |
| Prev Title: | Lightning Hopkins with His Brothers Joel and John Henry / with Barbara Dane |
| Prev Year: | 1966 |
| Next Title: | The King of the Blues |
| Next Year: | 1965 |
My Life in the Blues is an album by the blues musician Lightnin' Hopkins, recorded in late 1964 and released on the Prestige label the following year.[1] [2] [3] The album contains Hopkins' performances interspersed with an interview conducted by Samuel Charters.
The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings wrote that the album "contains half a dozen unremarkable performances taped at what sounds like a noisy party, and eight far more interesting passages of reminiscence in which Lightnin' describes his family, learning to play guitar, meeting Texas Alexander, making records and other topics".[4] AllMusic's Ritchie Unterberger reviewed Straight Blues, which collected the six songs from the project, calling them: "typical Hopkins' performances, incorporating both narrative folky tunes with spoken introductions, and livelier boogies".
All compositions by Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins