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Lightning Hopkins Sings the Blues

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Lightning Hopkins Sings the Blues
Studio album by
Released1961
RecordedOctober 1947–1951
StudioGold Star (Houston, Texas)
GenreBlues
Length25:50
LabelCrown
CLP-5224
Lightnin' Hopkins chronology
Lightnin' Hopkins Strums the Blues
(1958)
Lightning Hopkins Sings the Blues
(1961)
Last of the Great Blues Singers
(1960)
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Lightning Hopkins Sings the Blues, also released as Original Folk Blues, is a 12-inch LP album by blues musician Lightnin' Hopkins collecting tracks recorded between 1947 and 1951 that were originally released as 10-inch 78rpm records on the RPM label.[2][3][4] The album was released on the Mainstream Records low budget, Crown subsidiary and was an early 12-inch LP collections of Lightnin' Hopkins material recorded at Gold Star Studios to be released. In 1999 a double CD collection of Jake Head Boogie was released containing all of the Hopkins recordings released by the RPM label along with several previously unreleased recordings.

Track listing

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All compositions by Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins

  1. "Just Sittin' Down Thinkin'" – 2:33
  2. "Jake Head Boogie" – 2:53
  3. "Lonesome Dog Blues" – 2:38
  4. "Tell Me Pretty Mama" – 3:03
  5. "Last Affair" – 2:55
  6. "Don't Keep My Baby Long" – 2:15
  7. "Santa Fe Blues" – 2:23
  8. "Give Me Back That Wig" – 1:56
  9. "Someday" – 2:38
  10. "Ain't It Lonesome" – 2:36

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