March 4th, 2025
‘Lightnin’ Strikes’ When Acoustic Sounds Handles An Excellent Hopkins Curio A LESSER-KNOWN ALBUM BY THE TEXAS BLUES LEGEND BENEFITS FROM SONIC CLARIFICATIONBy: Morgan Enos
Lightnin’ Hopkins was many things — a hauntingly personal guitarist, a casually riveting storyteller, and as the country blues tradition goes, a figure of resounding influence. Every scrape of a string, every craggy vocalization, every ribald bon mot, seemed to spring from the Texas soil itself. To put it plainly, the bluesman was real — about as real as it gets.From the ‘40s until his 1982 death, Hopkins weathered his share of peaks and valleys, as tastes ebbed and... Read More
