Sam Lightnin' Hopkins – Lightnin' In New York
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Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins was already a Texas institution before the folk revival brought him north, and this 1960 session catches him at a genuine crossroads moment, still rooted in the Houston street-corner tradition he'd been honing since the 1940s. That tension between his raw, self-taught spontaneity and the newfound concert-hall context gives the performances here an electricity that studio-polished recordings rarely capture.
Recorded November 15, 1960 at the Nola Penthouse Sound Studios in New York, Lightnin' In New York captures the legendary bluesman in classic form, including some rare solos on the piano. Produced by Candid Records label co-founder, famed music critic and social activist, Nat Hentoff, and recorded at a time when Hopkins was being "rediscovered" by white audiences, the bluesman was reluctant in accepting his new role as an "artist" before predominantly white audiences.
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UPC: 708857301010
Label: Candid
Release Date: 9.23.22
Format: LP Vinyl
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