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Hopkins' best committed to vinyl ... These recordings are all very typical of the Hopkins approach in that many songs were probably improvised on the spot, or at least whipped up around a framework or some kind of skeletal idea. Hopkins has quite a strange attention span, sometimes approaching a song with strong concentration until he is halfway through, then becoming casual and letting things drift off completely. Aspects like this, and his way of improvising instrumental breaks in which the chord structure or tempo can be transformed at whim, make this a kind of blues that is challenging not only for the listener but for the performer as well.".
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329:"Somebody's Got to Go" – 2:48
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311:"Grosebeck Blues" – 2:25
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287:"Old Woman Blues" – 3:04
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812:Early Recordings Vol. 2
788:Lightnin' and the Blues
753:In the Key of Lightnin'
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177:Early Recordings Vol. 2
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737:The Swarthmore Concert
497:Autobiography in Blues
293:"T-Model Blues" – 2:39
194:The Gold Star Sessions
641:The King of the Blues
593:Smokes Like Lightning
553:Lightnin' Sam Hopkins
529:Lightnin' in New York
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290:"Untrue Blues" – 3:03
633:My Life in the Blues
209:Professional ratings
198:Smithsonian Folkways
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376:References
132:chronology
62:late 1940s
545:Mojo Hand
521:Lightnin'
347:Personnel
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204:Reception
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