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Media Type: CD
Artist: HOPKINS,LIGHTNIN'
Title: COMPLETE PRESTIGE/BLUESVILLE R
Street Release Date: 10/17/1991
Domestic
Genre: BLUES TRADITIONAL

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Rocky Mountain
2. Got to Move Your Baby
3. So Sorry to Leave You
4. Take a Trip With Me
5. Last Night Blues
6. Lightnin's Stroke
7. Hard to Love a Woman
8. Conversation Blues
9. Automobile Blues
10. You Better Watch Yourself
11. Mean Old Frisco
12. Shinin' Moon
13. Come Back Baby
14. Thinkin' 'Bout an Old Friend
15. Walkin' Blues
16. Back to New Orleans
17. Katie Mae
18. Down There Baby

Disc 2:

1. Black Gal
2. Baby Don't You Tear My Clothes
3. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
4. Coffee Blues
5. Buddy Brown's Blues (98 Degree Blues)
6. Drinkin' Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee
7. Sail on, Little Girl, Sail On
8. DC-7
9. Death Bells
10. Goin' to Dallas to See My Pony Run
11. Jailhouse Blues
12. Blues in the Bottle
13. Beans, Beans, Beans
14. Catfish Blues
15. My Grandpa Is Old Too!
16. T Model Blues
17. Jackstropper Blues
18. You Cook All Right
19. You Never Miss Your Water
20. Let's Do the Suzie Q
21. Smokes Like Lightning

Disc 3:

1. How Many More Years I Got to Let You Dog Me Around
2. Black Cadillac
3. Walkin' This Road by Myself
4. Devil Jumped the Black Man
5. My Baby Don't Stand No Cheating
6. You Is One Black Rat
7. Fox Chase
8. Mojo Hand
9. Mama Blues
10. My Black Name
11. Ida Mae
12. Prison Farm Blues
13. Worried Life Blues
14. Happy Blues for John Glenn
15. Sinner's Prayer
16. Angel Child
17. I Got a Leak in This Old Building
18. Pneumonia Blues
19. Have You Ever Been Mistreated

Disc 4:

1. Blues Is a Feeling
2. Me and Ray Charles
3. In the Evening, the Sun Is Going Down
4. Ain't It Crazy
5. Last Night I Lost the Best Friend I Ever Had
6. Everything
7. I Work Down on the Chain Gang
8. Meet Me in the Bottom
9. Business You're Doin'
10. Wake Up Old Lady
11. Stranger Here
12. Don't Embarrass Me, Baby
13. Little Sister's Boogie
14. Goin' Away
15. You Better Stop Her
16. I'm Wit' It
17. Let's Go Sit on the Lawn
18. I Woke Up This Morning

Disc 5:

1. Baby, Please Don't Go [#]
2. My Black Cadillac [#]
3. It's Crazy [#]
4. Mojo Hand [#]
5. My Babe [#]
6. Short Haired Woman [#]
7. Mean Old Frisco [#]
8. Trouble in Mind [#]
9. Twister [#]
10. Green Onion [#]
11. Sun Goin' Down [#]
12. Come Go Home With Me [#]
13. I'm a Stranger [#]
14. I Got Tired
15. I Like to Boogie
16. I Asked the Bossman
17. I'm Taking a Devil of a Chance
18. Just a Wristwatch on My Arm

Disc 6:

1. I Was Standing on 75 Highway
2. Get It Straight
3. I'm Going to Build Me a Heaven of My Own
4. My Babe
5. Too Many Drivers
6. I'm a Crawling Black Snake
7. Rocky Mountain Blues
8. I Mean Goodbye
9. Howling Wolf
10. Black Ghost Blues
11. Darling, Do You Remember Me?
12. Lonesome Graveyard
13. I Don't Want to Do Nothing to You
14. You Is One Black Rat
15. Got Nowhere to Lay My Head
16. Just Boogyin'
17. Take Me Back
18. I Was Down on Dowling Street

Disc 7:

1. I Growed up With the Blues - Samuel Charters, Lightnin' Hopkins
2. My Family - Samuel Charters, Lightnin' Hopkins
3. I Learn About the Blues - Samuel Charters, Lightnin' Hopkins
4. I First Come into Houston - Samuel Charters, Lightnin' Hopkins
5. I Meet Texas Alexander - Samuel Charters, Lightnin' Hopkins
6. They Was Hard Times - Samuel Charters, Lightnin' Hopkins
7. I Do My First Record and Get My Name - Samuel Charters, Lightnin' Hopkins
8. My Thoughts on the Blues - Samuel Charters, Lightnin' Hopkins

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #92161 in Music
• Brand: HOPKINS,LIGHTNIN'
• Released on: 1991-11-05
• Number of discs: 7
• Formats: Box set, Live

Amazon.com essential recording
Lightnin' Hopkins, the seminal Texas bluesman, was rediscovered in the 1960s when the folk revival made folk and country-blues musicians hot news. This seven-CD set includes much of Hopkins's work during that period, though he recorded for so many different labels that getting everything is well-nigh impossible. This is a good start, though, including as it does some concert recordings in addition to studio reissues and interviews. Hopkins's mastery of mood and technique makes this a chronicle not only of historical interest, but musical as well; while Hopkins's musical style didn't change much over the course of his multidecade career, he was certainly among the best at what he did. --Genevieve Williams

Customer Reviews

Blues in a box set
This seven disk, expensive box set is often a difficult pill to swallow, but I am glad that I did. On six disks twelve Lightnin' albums from the 60's are combined. If you are interested in Lightnin', do the math. The Complete Prestige/Bluesville Rocordings is a value. The seventh disk is full of interviews that may seem dull to some, but to a fan willing to spend $ to get the blues they are a welcome addition. A very interesting way to learn about the man is from his own voice in interviews like these. The liner notes are a simple histoy, a few pictures and a discography. Again, I am glad I bought it.

Rated Five Stars With A Footnote
This is one fantastic collection of music! However, I was a little disappointed by the apparent lack of effort that went into the finished product. With such a comprehensive assortment of music, I expected to find at least liner notes or a booklet with some biographical material or reviews. Also, it should be noted that the final disk in this set is only spoken word. While the novelty of it is awesome, and you get to here Lightnin's stories first hand, at my first listening I was somewhat off set because I wasn't expecting it. However, those things aside, this set is worth every penny!

A Must For Any Blues Fan
This is the finest blues collection by any blues artist that I have had the pleasure to hear. At my home it is mandatory listening at least once a week. Guests are totally in awe of Lightnin' as a story teller and guitarist. As the 'HITMAN' says, he's the best there is and the best there ever will be.