Lightnin’ Hopkins - Acoustic Years 1959-1960 (2013)

Lightnin' Hopkins was back in his home base of Houston, Texas by 1959, all but forgotten. There he was rediscovered by folklorist Mack McCormick, who shifted Hopkins' image to that of an acoustic folk-blues performer, essentially igniting the flame for the rest of Hopkins' career. This four-disc set collects the acoustic sides the bluesman cut in his new incarnation in 1959 and 1960.

Tracklist:

CD1:

01 – Penitentiary Blues
02 – Bad Luck And Trouble
03 – Come Go Home With Me
04 – Trouble Stay Way From My Door
05 – See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
06 – Goin’ Back To Florida
07 – Reminiscences Of Blind Lemon
08 – Fan It
09 – Tell Me Baby
10 – She’s Mine
11 – Til The Gin Gets Here
12 – So Long Baby
13 – Bunion Stew
14 – You Got To Work To Get Your Pay
15 – Go Down Ol’ Hannah
16 – Santa Fe Blues
17 – Hear M Black Dog Bark
18 – Long Time
19 – Rainy Day Blues
20 – Worryin’ My Mind
21 – Baby!
22 – Long Gone Like A Turkey Through The Corn
23 – See See Rider
24 – Prison Blues Come Down On Me

CD2:

01 – That Mean Old Twister (Backwater Blues)
02 – Gonna Pull A Party
03 – Bluebird Bluebird
04 – Get Off My Toe
05 – Short Haired Woman
06 – Mama And Papa Hopkins
07 – When The Saints Go Marching In
08 – The Foot Race Is On
09 – Bottle Up And Go
10 – That Bambling Life
11 – 75 Highway
12 – Trouble In Mind
13 – First Meeting
14 – First Meeting
15 – How Long Have It Been Since You Been Home
16 – Big Black Cadillac Blues
17 – Coffee House Blues
18 – Stool Pigeon Blues
19 – Ball Of Twine

CD3:

01 – Rocky Mountain
02 – Go To Move Your Baby
03 – So Sorry To Leave You
04 – Take A Trip With Me
05 – Last Night Blues
06 – Lightnin’s Stroke
07 – Hard To Love A Woman
08 – Conversation Blues
09 – Automoblie Blues
10 – You Better Watch Yourself
11 – Mean Old Frisco
12 – Shinin’ Moon
13 – Come Back Baby
14 – Thinkin’ Bout An Old Friend
15 – The Walkin’ Blues
16 – Back To New Orleans
17 – Katie Mae

CD4:

01 – Down There Baby
02 – Rainy Highway
03 – When My First Wife Quit Me
04 – Walk On
05 – Lightnin’s Guitar Boogie
06 – I’ve Had My Fun If I Don’t Get Well No More
07 – Mister Charlie
08 – Mighty Crazy
09 – Wonder Why
10 – Black Cat
11 – The Trouble Blues
12 – Your Own Fault, Baby, To Treat Me The Way You Do
13 – Lightnin’s Piano Boogie
14 – Take It Easy
15 – Come Go Home With Me