| Soul Blues | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Lightnin' Hopkins |
| Cover: | Soul Blues.jpg |
| Released: | 1965 |
| Recorded: | May 4 & 5, 1964 |
| Studio: | Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey |
| Genre: | Blues |
| Length: | 40:56 |
| Label: | Prestige |
| Producer: | Ozzie Cadena |
| Chronology: | Lightnin' Hopkins |
| Prev Title: | Down Home Blues |
| Prev Year: | 1964 |
| Next Title: | Lightning Hopkins with His Brothers Joel and John Henry / with Barbara Dane |
| Next Year: | 1966 |
Soul Blues is an album by the blues musician Lightnin' Hopkins, recorded in 1963 and released on the Bluesville label.[1] [2] [3]
The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings wrote: "Soul Blues has a few distinctive pieces like 'I'm Going to Build Me a Heaven of My Own' – not out of atheistic contrariness but in order to give 'lovin' women a happy home'. 'I'm a Crawling Black Snake' which has little in common with Blind Lemon Jefferson's song, is framed by oddly impressionistic guitar".[4] AllMusic reviewer Roundup Newsletter stated: "A true poet of the blues, Lightnin' Hopkins was a master of tall, tongue-in-cheek tales, often made up on the spot in the recording studio".
All compositions by Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins except where noted