Lightnin Hopkins - From The Vaults Of Everest Records - CD 2 - Prison Blues

Released by Collectables in 1990, "Prison Blues" is the second in a four-part Golden Classics series of Lightnin' Hopkins recordings that were originally issued on LPs during the 1960s on the Everest Archive of Folk label. (Anyone who frequented the cutout bins in record stores during the '70s probably remembers those marked down Everests vividly.) The entire Golden Classics set was reissued in 2001 as a 63-track package titled "From the Vaults of Everest".

As a single, 16-cut CD, "Prison Blues" gives an excellent idea of where Lightnin' was at during the '60s. Some of these blues are slow, thick, and rich like blackstrap molasses. Others ("Good Times," "Keep Movin' On") are propelled by kick drums. "Gonna Pull a Party" and "Til the Gin Gets Here" are pared down, boogie-based romps; "Long Gone Like a Turkey Through the Corn" sounds like a logical extension of what Florida-born guitarist Blind Blake was up to during the '20s. Perhaps the most beautiful interludes in this collection are Lightnin''s rendition of Ma Rainey's "See See Rider" and the amazing "Long Time," a distillation of the entire blues idiom that says everything that needs to be expressed in just one-minute and thirty-nine seconds.

Tracklist:

A1	Keep Movin' On
A2	That's My Story
A3	Dillon's Store
A4	Long Time
A5	Rainy Day Blues
A6	Baby
A7	Long Gone Like A Turkey Thru The Corn
A8	Goin' Back Home
B1	Prison Blues Come Down On Me
B2	Backwater Blues
B3	Gonna Full A Party
B4	Bluebird Bluebird
B5	See See Rider
B6	Worrying My Mind
B7	Till The Gin Gets Here
B8	Good Times

Lightnin Hopkins - From The Vaults Of Everest Records - CD 2 - Prison Blues 
(192 kbps, cover art included)