Label: Classics Records.
Release Date: November 1, 2002.
Recording Time: 65 minutes.
Release Info: Compilation Studio Recording.
Recording Date: 1948 - 1949.
Styles: Regional Blues, Texas Blues, Country Blues, Acoustic Texas Blues.
The third installment in the Classics complete chronological recordings of Lightnin' Hopkins presents a series of predominately solo performances recorded in Houston during 1948 and 1949 for the Gold Star record label, a local enterprise owned and operated by one Bill Quinn. Once these sides began to circulate and were reissued on the Modern and Sittin' in With labels, Lightnin' Hopkins began to acquire modest fame from coast to coast as both "T-Model Blues" and "Tim Moore's Farm" sold well enough to make it onto the national charts as "hits." This is wonderfully honest music. It operates on a very personal level, usually proceeding at a gradual, relaxed pace. "Rollin' Woman Blues" pitches a bit of a woogie and "Mad with You" resurfaces as "Lightnin' Boogie" with tap dancing provided by Houston's own L.C. Williams. ~ arwulf arwulf
Credits: Sleepy John Estes - composer; Lightnin' Hopkins - composer, primary artist; Sam Hopkins - composer; Dave Penny - liner notes; Big Joe Williams - composer.
Tracks: 1) Mercy; 2) What Can It Be; 3) Lonesome Home (Ain't It Lonesome); 4) Appetite Blues; 5) Walking Blues; 6) Lightning Blues; 7) No Mail Blues; 8) Ain't It a Shame; 9) Tim Moore's Farm (Tom Moore Blues); 10) You Don't Know; 11) Treat Me Kind; 12) Somebody's Got to Go; 13) Baby Please Don't Go; 14) Death Bells; 15) Mad with You; 16) Airplane Blues; 17) Unsuccessful Blues (Can't Be Successful); 18) Rollin' Woman Blues; 19) Jailhouse Blues; 20) T-Model Blues; 21) Travellers Blues; 22) Lightnin' Boogie (Lighnin' Blues) (Mad Man's Boogie); 23) Unkind Blues; 24) Tryin' to Find a Friend.