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Country blues [sound recording] / Lightnin' Hopkins.

by Hopkins, Lightnin', 1912-1982.

Tradition, p1996.

COMPACT DISC BLUES

[sound recording] /

1 CD (43 min.) : digital ; 12 cm.

All songs written by Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins, except track 9 by 'Ma" Rainey.

Originally LP release on Tradition as Country blues TLP 1035, [1959?]

Original liner notes by Mark McCormick (edited for this edition) on insert.

Recorded in Houston, TX, Feb. 16, 26, 1959.

Long time (1:36) -- Rainy day blues (3:06) -- Baby! (3:05) -- Long gone like a turkey through the corn (3:41) -- Prison blues come down on me (3:24) -- Backwater blues (this mean old twister) (2:45) -- Gonna pull a party (3:38) -- Bluebird, bluebird (1:29) -- See see rider (3:10) -- Worrying my mind (3:27) -- Till the gin gets here (1:02) -- Bunion stew (1:55) -- You got to work to get your pay (2:30) -- Go down old Hannah (3:30) -- Hear my black dog bark (3:49)

Reissued produced by David Greenberg.

Blues songs; Lightnin' Hopkins, guitar, vocals ; with Luke "Long Gone" Miles, vocal assistance (tracks 3 and 5)

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