Lightnin Hopkins - Double Blues (1973)

Lightnin' Hopkins' plaintive, soft-rolling blues style is exemplified on "Let's Go Sit on the Lawn," "Just a Wristwatch on My Arm," "I'm a Crawling Black Snake," Willie Dixon's "My Babe," and others.

Accompanied only by himself on guitar (and oh what a guitar he plays), Leonard Gaskin (bass), and Herb Lovelle (drums), Hopkins' seductive, intricate guitar picks and strums will dance around in your head long after this album has played.

His voice, which sounds like it's aged in Camels and Jim Beam, conveys his heartfelt sagas to the fullest. A prolific songwriter, Hopkins wrote every song except the Dixon tune.

All tracks were recorded May 4 - 5, 1964. Tracks 1 - 7 were originally released on the "Down Home Blues" album, tracks 8 - 17 on the "Soul Blues" album.

Tracklist:

1. Let's Go Sit On The Lawn
2. I'm Taking A Devil Of A Chance
3. I Got Tired
4. I Asked The Bossman
5. Just A Wristwatch On My Arm
6. I Woke Up This Morning
7. I Was Standing On 75 Highway
8. I'm Going To Build Me A Heaven Of My Own
9. My Babe
10. Too Many Drivers
11. I'm A Crawling Black Snake
12. Rocky Mountain Blues
13. I Mean Goodbye
14. Howling Wolf
15. Black Ghost Blues
16. Darling, Do You Remember Me?
17. Lonesome Graveyard

Lightnin Hopkins - Double Blues
(320 kbps, cover art included)