Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Rocky Mountain
2. Got to Move Your Baby
3. So Sorry to Leave You
4. Take a Trip With Me
5. Last Night Blues
6. Lightnin's Stroke
7. Hard to Love a Woman
8. Conversation Blues
9. Automobile Blues
10. You Better Watch Yourself
11. Mean Old Frisco
12. Shinin' Moon
13. Come Back Baby
14. Thinkin' 'Bout an Old Friend
15. Walkin' Blues, The
16. Back to New Orleans
17. Katie Mae
18. Down There Baby
DISC 2:
1. Black Gal
2. Baby Don't You Tear My Clothes
3. Good Morning Little School Girl
4. Coffee Blues
5. Buddy Brown's Blues (98 Degree Blues)
6. Wine Spodee-O-Dee
7. Sail On, Little Girl, Sail On
8. DC-7
9. Death Bells
10. Goin' to Dallas to See My Pony Run
11. Jailhouse Blues
12. Blues in the Bottle
13. Beans, Beans, Beans
14. Catfish Blues
15. My Grandpa Is Old Too!
16. T Model Blues
17. Jackstropper Blues
18. You Cook All Right
19. You Never Miss Your Water
20. Let's Do the Suzie Q
21. Smokes Like Lightning
DISC 3:
1. How Many More Years I Got to Let You Dog Me Around
2. Black Cadillac
3. Walkin' This Road by Myself
4. Devil Jumped the Black Man, The
5. My Baby Don't Stand No Cheating
6. You Is One Black Rat
7. Fox Chase, The
8. Mojo Hand
9. Mama Blues
10. My Black Name
11. Ida Mae
12. Prison Farms Blues
13. Worried Life Blues
14. Happy Blues For John Glenn
15. Sinner's Prayer
16. Angel Child
17. I Got a Leak in This Old Building
18. Pneumonia Blues
19. Have You Ever Been Mistreated
DISC 4:
1. Blues Is a Feeling
2. Me and Ray Charles
3. In the Evening
4. Ain't It Crazy
5. Last Night I Lost the Best Friend I Ever Had
6. Everything
7. I Work Down on the Chain Gang
8. Meet Me in the Bottom
9. Business You're Doin'
10. Wake up Old Lady
11. Stranger Here
12. Don't Embarrass Me, Baby
13. Little Sister's Boogie
14. Goin' Away
15. You Better Stop Her
16. I'm Wit' It
17. Let's Go Sit on the Lawn
18. I Woke up This Morning
DISC 5:
1. Baby, Please Don't Go - (previously unreleased)
2. My Black Cadillac - (previously unissued)
3. It's Crazy - (previously unissued)
4. Mojo Hand - (previously unissued)
5. My Babe - (previously unissued)
6. Short Haired Woman - (previously unissued)
7. Mean Old Frisco - (previously unissued)
8. Trouble in Mind - (previously unissued)
9. Twister, The - (previously unissued)
10. Green Onion - (previously unissued)
11. Sun Goin' Down - (previously unissued)
12. Come Go Home With Me - (previously unissued)
13. I'm a Stranger - (previously unissued)
14. I Got Tired
15. I Like to Boogie
16. I Asked the Bossman
17. I'm Taking a Devil of a Chance
18. Just a Wristwatch on My Arm
DISC 6:
1. I Was Standing on 75 Highway
2. Get It Straight
3. I'm Going to Build Me a Heaven of My Own
4. My Babe
5. Too Many Drivers
6. I'm a Crawling Black Snake
7. Rocky Mountain Blues
8. I Mean Goodbye
9. Howling Wolf, The
10. Black Ghost Blues
11. Darling, Do You Remember Me?
12. Lonesome Graveyard
13. I Don't Want to Do Nothing to You
14. You Is One Black Rat
15. Got Nowhere to Lay My Head
16. Just Boogyin'
17. Take Me Back
18. I Was Down on Dowling Street
DISC 7:
1. I Growed up With the Blues
2. My Family
3. I Learn About the Blues
4. I First Come Into Houston
5. I Meet Texas Alexander
6. They Was Hard Times
7. I Do My First Record and Get My Name
8. My Thoughts on the Blues
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Sonny Terry | | Producer: | Bill Belmont | | Distributor: | Fantasy (distributor) | | Recording Type: | Mixed | | Recording Mode: | Mixed | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
THE COMPLETE PRESTIGE/BLUESVILLE RECORDINGS contains 112 songs representing Lightnin' Hopkins complete output for the Prestige and Bluesville labels from 1960 to 1964, including 13 tracks from a previously unreleased 1963 Swarthmore College concert. Also contained in this set are interview segments from a rare '64 Bluesville album, a 32-page booklet and a complete discography.
Personnel: Lightnin' Hopkins (vocals, guitar); Sonny Terry (vocals, harmonica); Billy Bizor (harmonica); Buster Pickens (piano); Leonard Gaskin, Donald Cooks (bass); Belton Evans, Spider Kilpatrick, Herbie Lovelle (drums).
Principally recorded at Van Gelder Studios, Englewood, New Jersey and ACA (Gold Star) Studios, Houston, Texas between October 26, 1960 and December 2, 1964. Includes liner notes by Samuel Charters.
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