1 He went to Chicago and recorded for Mercury. He never saw himself as a songwriter, at least as that term is used today. . Jealous Of My Wife by Lightnin' Hopkins - Topic.
by Chicago Review Press He also made a cotton-picking trip to Arizona with some friends from back home but spent most of his time there gambling, playing guitar, and bootlegging wine to Indians. He might play and sing something fierce and new, but just as likely he’d redo a song he’d done the day before, changing a line or two because he felt like it. Lightnin’ refused (though he did let him play a few songs at a gig). He was a one-man band, pounding the rhythm on the low strings, the melody on the high ones, singing and answering the words with notes and the notes with words.
Published 3:56. Hopkins began accompanying Jefferson on guitar at informal church gatherings. His obituary in the New York Times described him as "one of the great country blues singers and perhaps the greatest single influence on rock guitar players.". Lightnin’ was doing what everyone else did. He stopped recording in 1956.A COUPLE YEARS LATER, folklorist Mack McCormick, who over the previous decade had seen Lightnin’ perform on the streets as well as in the studio, tracked him down in the Third Ward. He’d see a pretty girl in a red dress and shout out in his rough voice a line about a pretty girl in a red dress.
The resulting film, The Blues Accordin’ to Lightnin’ Hopkins, is a gorgeous 31-minute poem of a movie, a series of snapshots from his life as well as a look at an era fast disappearing.
Samuel John "Lightnin'" Hopkins (March 15, 1912 – January 30, 1982) was an American country blues singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional pianist, from Centerville, Texas. . He always had to be the center of attention, onstage and off.
Jealous Of My Wife by Lightnin' Hopkins - Topic. In the studio, he drove bass players and drummers crazy and took other artists’ lyrics and melodies and remade them as his own, as always. He would later say that one of his grandfathers, a slave, had hung himself in his misery and that his father, Abe, a cotton and corn farmer, was killed over a card game when he was three. The resulting film, The Blues Accordin’ to Lightnin’ Hopkins, is a gorgeous 31-minute poem of a movie, a series of snapshots from his life as well as a look at an era fast disappearing. Sometimes Sam is out of tune and often he’s out of time—the band tries its best to follow him as he tumbles through his twelve-, thirteen-, and fourteen-bar blues, crashing at the end of each song. He was buried in Forest Park Cemetery after a small, private funeral (he had told family and friends he didn’t want any TV cameras), but a public memorial service drew some one thousand people.Until Beyoncé came along, Lightnin’ was Houston’s most famous musical celebrity, but you won’t find much evidence there of his tenure or influence—not on scruffy Dowling Street, where he was once king, nor anywhere else. The turning point in Chenier 's career came when Lightnin' Hopkins ' wife, who was a cousin, introduced Chris Strachwitz, owner of the roots music label, Arhoolie, to his early recordings. But the best stuff was Lightnin’ with just his acoustic guitar, rocking like a one-man band, with rapid bursts of notes answering his words.
Although he recorded 13 songs for the Crowley, LA-based Zynn label, between 1958 and 1960, none charted. He would just move on up the street and do it again.” Out in the rest of America, however, his old-fashioned country blues were fading in popularity. Come On Baby by Lightnin' Hopkins - Topic. If somebody in the audience disrupted the performance, he’d stop everything and say, ‘This is Lightnin’s show.’ He was a tough old bird, not easy by any means. Jefferson traveled all around Central and East Texas, playing on street corners and at picnics and dances, drawing crowds wherever he went. The percussion pushes the energy level up a notch on "Jealous of My Wife" and "Shake That Thing," pieces that probably had old-timers boogying in the aisles. He had been performing in the clubs with a piano player named Wilson “Thunder” Smith, and they took a train west and recorded four songs with a drummer, a gloriously chaotic mix of twining acoustic guitar and tinkling piano. “Frankie was singing, ‘My baby got a standard carburetor, burning bad gasoline.’ He finished, and the sheriff walked over and said, ‘Come on, you’re gonna see what kind of gas I’m burning.’ They kept him on a pea farm for two weeks.” Indeed, at some point Sam did time on a county road gang, though according to him, it was for cause. They didn’t think white people were interested in what they had to say.”They were wrong. “They were concerned about what white people could understand. has been no help to nobody except when you wanted to hear music.”IN 1967 FILMMAKER LES BLANK came to Texas and persuaded Lightnin’ to let members of a documentary crew film him in Centerville and Houston—but only after he had suckered them into gambling away a large sum of money. Born in 1912 to a poor sharecropping family in the cotton country between Dallas and Houston, Hopkins left home when he was only eightBy the time of his death in 1982, Sam Lightnin’” Hopkins was likely the most recorded blues artist in history. hell, the world's best. When Classes Resume, Who Will Protect Me?A Lifelong Rock Music Aficionado On Finally Seeing Her Icons Embrace BlacknessThis Radio Station Has Served Blind Texans for More Than 50 YearsTexas Monthly Recommends: The New Go-Go’s DocumentaryThis Houston Artist Paints Nostalgic Watercolors for Homesick TexansI’ve Spent Years Protecting My Students.
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