King Of Dowling Street [CD]

57 Tracks/20 Never before on CD/12 Previously unreleased performances. Remastered from Analog tapes. Texas bluesman Lightnin’ Hopkins career was both long and fruitful. He performed live for six decades and recorded for over 30 years amassing a catalogue that was larger than almost any of his contemporaries. Not only was he prolific but he was also a great raconteur and a very good live performer with an ‘act’ honed to perfection at pre-war dances and parties. His guitar playing was unconventional, some have even called it ragged, but it is not as a guitarist that he will be remembered. Somehow the way he set his songs seemed totally apposite and it gave everything he did an authenticity that few others were ever able to match.

DISC 1 Favorites 1) Moanin’ Blues 2) Leavin’ Blues 3) Late In The Evening 4) Lightnin’ Jump 5) Met The Blues At The Corner 6) Long Gone Like A Turkey Through Corn 7) How Long Have It Been Since You Been Home 8) Mojo Hand 9) Glory Bee 10) How Long Has That Train Been Gone 11) Have You Ever Loved A Woman? 12) Santa 13) Black Mare Trot 14) Coffee For Mama 15) Awful Dream 16) Sometimes She Will 17) Shine On, Moon 18) Houston Bound 19) Shotgun 20) Baby I Don’t Care 21) Give Me Time To Think 22) No Education Disc 2 RARITIES 1) This Time We’re Going To Try 2) Christmas Time Is Coming 3) Let’s Work Awhile 4) The Jet 5) I Don’t Need You Woman 6) I Wish I Was A Baby 7) The Crazy Song 8) Lightnin’s Love 9) Take It IF You Want It 10) How Have You Been 11) My Baby Was Crying For Bread 12) I Wonder Where She Can Be Tonight 13) Feel Like Ballin’ The Jack 14) Rainy Day In Houston 15) How Does It (Instrumental) 16) A Man Like Me Is Hard To Find 17) Movin’ Out 18) You Just Gotta Miss Me 19) World’s In A Tangle 20) Shinin’ Moon Disc 3 Live 1) Rock Me All Night Long 2) Mighty Crazy 3) Nothing I Can Do 4) How Many More Years I Got To Let You Dog Me Around 5) Last Night Blues 6) Going Down Slow 7) Houston Rock 8) I Got My Hook In Your Water 9) Last Night I Lost The Best Friend I Ever Had 10) My Babe 11) There’s Good Rockin’ Tonight 12) You Treat Po’ Lightnin’ Wrong 13) 70 Miles From Nowhere 14) Mojo Hand 15) Shining Moon

• Format Detail: 3CD 3 CD Folder
• Format: CD
• Genre: Blues