The Very Best of Lightnin' Hopkins [Great American] [PA]

Performer: Lightnin' Hopkins
Distributor: Redeye Music Distribution

Notes: Liner Note Author: Bill Dahl. Lightnin' Hopkins is perhaps the quintessential Texas bluesman. His idiosyncratic style is as distinctive as it is inimitable, though generations of blues players have recorded his songs. Unlike many of his contemporaries, Hopkins had a long, prolific career that encompassed a dizzying array of labels and an inestimable number of sessions, but THE VERY BEST OF LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS dips into that deep well and pulls up a batch of the Texas blues king's best.

Some artists are influential because so many followers try to imitate them; others are influential precisely because they cannot be imitated. Lightnin' Hopkins was of the latter variety. With a career that stretched from the 1920s through the '70s, the Texas bluesman was a genre unto himself, a deft guitarist equally at home in a quiet solo performance or fronting an electrified boogie band. He was a free-associating poet who made up entire songs on the spot, and a leathery-voiced singer whose vocals simultaneously communicated a lifetime of misery and an endless reserve of self-confidence.

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