Lightnin' Hopkins - Blues In My Bottle (1961) & Walkin' This Road By Myself (1962) [Reissue 1990]

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Lightnin' Hopkins - Blues In My Bottle (1961) & Walkin' This Road By Myself (1962) [Reissue 1990]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 398 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 177 MB | Covers - 57 MB
Genre: Acousic Blues, Country Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Ace Records (CDCHD 930)

Lightnin' Hopkins had a hard and fast approach to dealing with the abundance of record labels he recorded for during his career. The irascible bluesman would show up at the session in question but would refuse to play a note until he was paid his fee upfront. Once paid and satisfied, he'd unpack his stock set of boogie blues riffs and pretty much improvise songs on the spot until he'd fulfilled his agreed upon quota. Then he would leave. This system led to an awful lot of similarly constructed and executed throwaway tracks, but Hopkins had a special gift for personalizing the blues that came through in the best of these improvised songs, and a few gems always showed up in the process. This disc combines 1961's Walkin' This Road by Myself, which features Hopkins with drummer Spider Kilpatrick, harmonica player Billy Bizor, and pianist Buster Pickens, with 1963's solo acoustic Blues in My Bottle (one track from the original LP, "Death Bells," has been omitted from this CD reissue), both of which were produced by Kenneth S. Goldstein and Mack McCormick. The end result is a pleasant representation of what Hopkins did both as a solo act, when he was arguably at his best, and with a small, sympathetic combo.
Tracklist:

Blues In My Bottle (1961):
01. Buddy Brown's Blues
02. Wine Spodee-O-Dee
03. Sail On, Little Girl, Sail On
04. DC-7
05. Goin' To Dallas To See My Pony Run
06. Jailhouse Blues
07. Blues In The Bottle
08. Beans, Beans, Beans
09. Catfish Blues
10. My Grandpa Is Old Too!

Walkin' This Road By Myself (1962):
11. Walkin' This Road By Myself
12. Black Gal
13. How Many More Years I Got To Let
14. Baby Don't You Tear My Clothes
15. Worried Life Blues
16. Happy Blues For John Glenn
17. Good Morning Little School Girl
18. The Devil Jumped The Black Man
19. Coffee Blues
20. Black Cadillac

Total time: 01:15:23

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Lightnin' Hopkins / Blues In My Bottle - Walkin' This Road By Myself

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