Lightin Hopkins
The United States of The Blues
The Blues has provided the basic melodic language for all forms of American music especially so-called jazz.
Lightnin' Hopkins (Jean Pierre LeLoir, circa 1962)
Paris, France: Texas-born Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins began roaming his home state in the late twenties, developing a highly influential blues guitar style. Hopkins became one of the most successful rural bluesmen, performing all over the world. LeLoir photographed Hopkins at a Parisian nightclub.
BLUESLAND: A portrait in American Music
This is a box set that repackages all 11 LPs that Lightnin' Hopkins recorded for Bluesville and Prestige during the first half of the 1960s
