The Complete Prestige/Bluesville Recordings (1991)

About this title: This is a seven-CD box set that repackages all 11 LPs that Lightnin' Hopkins recorded for Bluesville and Prestige during the first half of the 1960s: Last Night Blues, Lightnin', Blues in My Bottle, Walkin' This Road By Myself, Lightnin' and Co., Smokes Like Lightning, Hootin' the Blues, Goin' Away, Down Home Blues, Soul Blues and My Life in the Blues. The very prolific Hopkins (who was never loyal to any one label) also recorded for Candid, Arhoolie, Fire and Vee Jay during the period! The bulk of My Life in the Blues is actually a lengthy and rather historic interview that Samuel Charters ... read more

Tracks:

1. Rocky Mountain [Hopkins]
2. Got to Move Your Baby [Hopkins]
3. So Sorry to Leave You [Hopkins]
4. Take a Trip With Me [Hopkins]
5. Last Night Blues [Hopkins]
6. Lightnin's Stroke [Hopkins]
7. Hard to Love a Woman [Hopkins]
8. Conversation Blues [Hopkins]
9. Automobile Blues [Hopkins]
10. You Better Watch Yourself [Hopkins]
11. Mean Old Frisco [Traditional]
12. Shinin' Moon [Hopkins]
13. Come Back Baby [Hopkins]
14. Thinkin' 'Bout an Old Friend [Hopkins]
15. The Walkin' Blues [Hopkins]
16. Back to New Orleans [McGhee/Terry]
17. Katie Mae [Hopkins]
18. Down There Baby [Hopkins]
19. Black Gal [Hopkins]
20. Baby Don't You Tear My Clothes [Hopkins]
21. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl [Williamson]
22. Coffee Blues [Hopkins]
23. Buddy Brown's Blues (98 Degree Blues) [Alexander]
24. Drinkin' Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee [McGhee/Williams]
25. Sail on, Little Girl, Sail On [Easton]
26. DC-7 [Hopkins]
27. Death Bells [Hopkins]
28. Goin' to Dallas to See My Pony Run [Traditional]
29. Jailhouse Blues [Williams/Clarence []
30. Blues in the Bottle [Traditional]
31. Beans, Beans, Beans [Hopkins]
32. Catfish Blues [Hopkins]
33. My Grandpa Is Old Too! [Hopkins]
34. T Model Blues [Hopkins]
35. Jackstropper Blues [Hopkins]
36. You Cook All Right [Hopkins]
37. You Never Miss Your Water [Hopkins]
38. Let's Do the Suzie Q [Hopkins]
39. Smokes Like Lightning [Hopkins]
40. How Many More Years I Got to Let You Dog Me Around [Hopkins]
41. Black Cadillac [Hopkins]
42. Walkin' This Road by Myself [Hopkins]
43. The Devil Jumped the Black Man [Hopkins]
44. My Baby Don't Stand No Cheating [Hopkins]
45. You Is One Black Rat [Hopkins]
46. The Fox Chase [Hopkins]
47. Mojo Hand [Hopkins]
48. Mama Blues [Hopkins]
49. My Black Name [Hopkins]
50. Ida Mae [Hopkins]
51. Prison Farm Blues [Hopkins]
52. Worried Life Blues [Hopkins]
53. Happy Blues for John Glenn [Hopkins]
54. Sinner's Prayer [Hopkins]
55. Angel Child [Hopkins]
56. I Got a Leak in This Old Building [Hopkins]
57. Pneumonia Blues [Hopkins]
58. Have You Ever Been Mistreated [Hopkins]
59. Blues Is a Feeling [Hopkins]
60. Me and Ray Charles [Hopkins]
61. In the Evening, the Sun Is Going Down [Carr/Raye]
62. Ain't It Crazy [Hopkins]
63. Last Night I Lost the Best Friend I Ever Had [Hopkins]
64. Everything [Hopkins]
65. I Work Down on the Chain Gang [Hopkins]
66. Meet Me in the Bottom [Hopkins/McGhee]
67. Goin' Away [Hopkins]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.