Double Blues:(1972)
I got my first Lightnin' Hopkins album on a cassette when I was about thirteen on a trip to Denver. I remember it had been harder than I imagined to track down something by the Texas blues great. No one has ever played quite like Lightnin', and that's what jumped out at me on the very first listen. To this day, I've never heard anyone who could pay so laid back, and yet aggressive at the same time in a mesmerizing swirl of hard won rhythm, and life story repeating lead that didn't require a band. But, when a band was added it was so simple and atmospheric that it conjured other worlds out of thin air. I still find the best times to listen to Lightnin' Hopkins to be early in the morning or at night. That to me is the highest honor a purveyor of the Blues can achieve.
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