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This essential LP edition includes the blues giant’s 1959 self-titled debut for the Folkways label Lightnin’ Hopkins (which would be retitled as The Roots of Lightnin’ Hopkins six years later). It’s perhaps the best introduction to his blues mastery. This album (which has been long unavailable on vinyl) was a pivotal part of the late-’50s/early-’60s blues revival which helped spark greater interest in Hopkins and many of his contemporaries. The bluesman had disappeared from sight until the making of this LP brought him back into the public eye. After a great deal of searching Sam Charters found Hopkins in a rented one-room apartment in Houston. Persuading him with a bottle of gin Charters convinced Hopkins to record ten songs in that room using only one microphone. The resulting LP would be one of the greatest albums in Hopkins’ catalog a skeletal record that is absolutely naked in its loneliness and haunting in its despair.
In addition to the original masterpiece this Vinyl Lovers collector’s edition also includes 2 bonus tracks from the same period: “So Long Baby” and “The Foot Race Is On.”

Solo recordings by Sam “Lightnin’” Hopkins (vocals and guitar).
Recorded at 2803 Hadley Street Houston Texas January 16 1959.
Original session produced by Samuel B. Charters (using Ampex Equipment with an EV 636 microphone).
* Bonus tracks: Lightnin’ Hopkins solo recordings. Produced by Mack McCormick. Recorded in Houston Texas. February 1959.

SIDE 1:
1. PENITENTIARY BLUES
2. BAD LUCK AND TROUBLE
3. COME GO HOME WITH ME
4. TROUBLE STAY ‘WAY FROM MY DOOR
5. SEE THAT MY GRAVE IS KEPT CLEAN
6. SO LONG BABY *
SIDE 2:
1. GOIN’ BACK TO FLORIDA
2. REMINISCENCES OF BLIND LEMON
3. FAN IT
4. TELL ME BABY
5. SHE’S MINE
6. THE FOOT RACE IS ON *
* BONUS TRACKS