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Formats and Editions
1. That Mean Old Twister
2. Katie Mae
3. Rocky Mountain Blues (I Can't Stay Here)
4. I Feel So Bad
5. Big Mama Jump
6. Short Haired Woman
7. Fast Mail Rambler
8. Thinkin' and Worryin'
9. Play with Your Poodle
10. Down Home Baby
11. Big Mama Jump
12. Short Haired Woman
13. Sugar Mama
14. Picture on the Wall
15. Woman, Woman
16. Nightmare Blues
17. Have to Let You Go
18. Morning Blues
19. Baby Child
20. Changing Weather Blues
21. Rollin' Blues
22. Shotgun Blues
23. Honey, Honey Blues
24. Moonrise Blues
25. Miss Me Blues
26. Abilene
27. Worried Life Blues - You're Not Going to Worry
28. Daddy Will Be Home Some Day
29. So Long
30. My California
31. Shining Moon
32. Ida May
33. Mercy
34. What Can It Be
35. Lonesome Home
36. Appetite Blues
37. Walkin'blues
38. Lightnin' Blues
39. No Mail Blues
40. Ain't It a Shame
41. Tim Moore's Farm
42. You Don't Know
43. Treat Me Kind
44. Somebody Got to Go
45. Baby Please Don't Go
46. Death Bells
47. Mad with You
48. Airplane Blues
49. Unsuccessful Blues
50. Rollin' Woman Blues
51. Jail House Blues
52. T Model Blues
53. Lightnin' Boogie
54. Unkind Blues
55. Fast Life Woman
56. European Blues
57. Automobile
58. Zolo Go
59. Old Woman Blues
60. Untrue Blues
61. Henny Penny Blues
62. Jazz Blues
63. Jackstropper Blues
64. Grievance Blues
65. Bad Luck and Trouble
66. Beggin' You to Stay
67. Jake Head
68. Lonesome Dog Blues
69. Last Affair
70. Don't Keep My Baby Long
71. One Kind Favor
72. Needed Time
73. Candy Kitchen
74. Another Fool in Town
75. Mistreater Blues
76. Black Cat
77. Santa Fe Blues
78. Someday Baby
More Info:
Lightnin' Hopkins - The Singles Collection Vol. 1 1946-53 - This substantial collection covering the early years of his recording career helps to explain and underline that view / Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins was one of the true blues greats, a singer, guitarist, songwriter and occasional pianist from Texas, who through a life as a long-time solo performer developed a highly distinctive style, playing rhythm, lead, bass and percussion, with a legendarily unstructured approach to the 12-bar format. Musicologist Mark McCormick said that Hopkins is "the embodiment of the jazz-and-poetry spirit, representing it's ancient form in the single creator whose words and music are one act". Born in 1912, he did not get an opportunity to record until the post-war years, and then recorded prolifically for a variety of labels. Acrobat has addressed his output on 78s and 45s from 1946 to 1962 with two 3-CD sets of which this is the first. This 78-track collection comprises the A & B sides of just about all his releases during these years on the Aladdin, Modern, Gold Star and RPM labels. His RPM releases overlapped with his releases on the Sittin' In With label which begin in 1951 and start Vol. 2. It includes his hits in the US R&B charts with "Shotgun Blues", "T Model Blues" and "Tim Moore's Farm". It also includes records for Aladdin with pianist Wilson "Thunder" Smith. His New York Times obituary in 1982 said he was "one of the great country blues singers and perhaps the greatest single influence on rock guitar players", and this substantial collection covering the early years of his recording career helps to explain and underline that view.
