Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Blues Is a Feeling
2. Katie Mae Blues
3. Play With Your Poodle
4. Baby Please Don't Go
5. Needed Time
6. Short Haired Woman
7. Mad With You
8. Automobile
9. T Model Blues
10. Lightnin' Boogie
11. Black Cat Bone
12. Give Me Central 209
13. Coffee Blues
14. What's the Matter Now
15. I'm Wild About You Baby
16. Policy Game
17. Late in the Evening
18. Lightnin' Jump
19. Lightnin' Don't Feel Well
20. Movin' on Out Boogie
DISC 2:
1. My Little Kewpie Doll
2. Blues For My Cookie
3. Had a Gal Called Sal
4. They Wonder Who I Am
5. Wimmin From Coast to Coast - (with Brownie McGhee/Big Joe Williams/Sonny Terry/Jimmy Bond)
6. Fan It
7. War Is Starting Again
8. Rolling and Rolling
9. Death Bells
10. I'll Be Gone - (with Earl Palmer)
11. I Asked the Bossman
12. Shaggy Dad
13. Black Ghost Blues
14. No Education
15. Antoinette's Blues
16. Los Angeles Boogie
17. Let Them Little Things Be True
18. Mojo Hand (Part 1)
19. Mr. Charlie (Part 1)
20. Mr. Charlie (Part 2) - (with David Hood/Roger Hawkins)
21. Fishing Clothes
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Big Joe Williams, Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry | | Producer: | James Austin | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Mixed | | Recording Mode: | Mixed | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
This anthology contains classic performances from the late 1940s through the late 1960s, culled from 15 different labels, including many long-out-of-print sides from Folkways, Vee Jay and Bluesville.
Personnel includes: Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, piano, organ); Joel Hopkins, Eddie Hinton (guitar); Ira James (harmonica); John "Streamline" Ewing (trombone); Thunder Smith, Elmore Nixon (piano); Donald Cooks, Jimmy Bond, Lenord Gaskin, Rusty Myers, Ozell Roberts, David Hood (bass); Connie Kroll, Ben Turner, Ivory Semiens, Earl Palmer, Herbie Lovelle, Larry "Bones" McCall, Roger Hawkins (drums); L.C. Williams (tap dancing).
Includes liner notes by Stephen K. Peeples and Greg Drust.
Digitally remastered by Bob Fischer (Digital Domain).
Like many bluesmen of his era, Texas blues giant Lightnin' Hopkins had two distinct careers: first as a post-war recording artist known almost exclusively to black audiences, and second as a "rediscovered" blues artiste traveling the college and coffee house circuit. Regardless of his audience, Hopkins' blues remained constantly spare and gritty, occasionally lascivious, and always marked by a fluid, dexterous guitar style. Both of Hopkins' careers are well represented by MOJO HAND, a two-disc set on which Hopkins' music receives reverent treatment from reissue masters Rhino Records.
MOJO HAND provides a generous overview of Hopkins' entire career, ample enough for music fans interested in Hopkins' sound and best-known songs but not ready to wade through the prolific artist's 100+ album catalogue. All of Hopkins' styles--solo acoustic, solo electric, and small pre-rock & roll electric ensemble--are on display on MOJO HAND. Furthermore, the set's chronological ordering and excellent annotations provide direction for further exploration of Hopkins' recordings. Like most Rhino product, MOJO HAND is a great set that should satisfy both novices and hardcore aficionados.
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