Lightnin Hopkins
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Lightnin Hopkins
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Author : Alan Govenar
language : en
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Release Date : 2010-05
Lightnin Hopkins written by Alan Govenar and has been published by Chicago Review Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Based on scores of interviews with the artist's relatives, friends, lovers, producers, accompanists, managers, and fans, this brilliant biography reveals a man of many layers and contradictions. Following the journey of a musician who left his family's poor cotton farm at age eight carrying only a guitar, the book chronicles his life on the open road playing blues music and doing odd jobs. It debunks the myths surrounding his meetings with Blind Lemon Jefferson and Texas Alexander, his time on a chain gang, his relationships with women, and his lifelong appetite for gambling and drinking. This volume also discusses his hard-to-read personality; whether playing for black audiences in Houston's Third Ward, for white crowds at the Matrix in San Francisco, or in the concert halls of Europe, Sam Hopkins was a musician who poured out his feelings in his songs and knew how to endear himself to his audience--yet it was hard to tell if he was truly sincere, and he appeared to trust no one. Finally, this book moves beyond exploring his personal life and details his entire musical career, from his first recording session in 1946--when he was dubbed Lightnin'--to his appearance on the national charts and his rediscovery by Mack McCormick and Sam Charters in 1959, when his popularity had begun to wane and a second career emerged, playing to white audiences rather than black ones. Overall, this narrative tells the story of an important blues musician who became immensely successful by singing with a searing emotive power about his country roots and the injustices that informed the civil rights era.
Mojo Hand
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Author : Timothy J. O'Brien
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2013-04-02
Mojo Hand written by Timothy J. O'Brien and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In a career that took him from the cotton fields of East Texas to the concert stage at Carnegie Hall and beyond, Lightnin’ Hopkins became one of America’s greatest bluesmen, renowned for songs whose topics effortlessly ranged from his African American roots to space exploration, the Vietnam War, and lesbianism, performed in a unique, eccentric, and spontaneous style of guitar playing that inspired a whole generation of rock guitarists. Hopkins’s music directly and indirectly influenced an amazing range of artists, including Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Tom Waits, and Bob Dylan, as well as bands such as the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and ZZ Top, with whom Hopkins performed. Mojo Hand follows Lightin’ Hopkins’s life and music from the acoustic country blues that he began performing in childhood, through the rise of 1950s rock ’n’ roll, which nearly derailed his career, to his reinvention and international success as a pioneer of electric folk blues from the 1960s to the 1980s. The authors draw on 130 vivid oral histories, as well as extensive archival and secondary sources, to provide the fullest account available of the development of Hopkins’s music; his idiosyncratic business practices, such as shunning professional bookers, managers, and publicists; and his durable and indelible influence on modern roots, blues, rock ’n’ roll, singer-songwriter, and folk music. Mojo Hand celebrates the spirit and style, intelligence and wit, and confounding musical mystique of a bluesman who shaped modern American music like no one else.
Mel Bay Presents Lightnin Hopkins The Gold Star Years
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Author : Lightnin' Hopkins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Mel Bay Presents Lightnin Hopkins The Gold Star Years written by Lightnin' Hopkins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Blues (Music) categories.
Deep Down Hard Blues
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Author : Sarah Ann West
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Deep Down Hard Blues written by Sarah Ann West and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A Blues Bibliography
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Author : Robert Ford
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2008-03-31
A Blues Bibliography written by Robert Ford and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-31 with Music categories.
A Blues Bibliography, Second Edition is a revised and enlarged version of the definitive blues bibliography first published in 1999. Material previously omitted from the first edition has now been included, and the bibliography has been expanded to include works published since then. In addition to biographical references, this work includes entries on the history and background of the blues, instruments, record labels, reference sources, regional variations and lyric transcriptions and musical analysis. The Blues Bibliography is an invaluable guide to the enthusiastic market among libraries specializing in music and African-American culture and among individual blues scholars.
Mel Bay Presents Lightnin Hopkins Blues Guitar Legend
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Author : Lightnin' Hopkins
language : en
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
Release Date : 1995
Mel Bay Presents Lightnin Hopkins Blues Guitar Legend written by Lightnin' Hopkins and has been published by Mel Bay Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Blues (Music) categories.
Mojo Hand
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Author : Timothy Joseph O'Brien
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Mojo Hand written by Timothy Joseph O'Brien and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
'Mojo Hand' follows Lightin' Hopkins's life and music from the acoustic country blues that he began performing in childhood, through the rise of 1950s rock 'n' roll, which nearly derailed his career, to his reinvention and international success as a pioneer of electric folk blues from the 1960s to the 1980s.
Juneteenth Texas
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Author : Francis Edward Abernethy
language : en
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Release Date : 1996
Juneteenth Texas written by Francis Edward Abernethy and has been published by University of North Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Music categories.
Juneteenth Texas reflects the many dimensions of African-American folklore. The personal essays are reminiscences about the past and are written from both black and white perspectives. They are followed by essays which classify and describe different aspects of African-American folk culture in Texas; studies of specific genres of folklore, such as songs and stories; studies of specific performers, such as Lightnin' Hopkins and Manse Lipscomb and of particular folklorists who were important in the collecting of African-American folklore, such as J. Mason Brewer; and a section giving resources for the further study of African Americans in Texas.
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide
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Author : Nathan Brackett
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2004
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide written by Nathan Brackett and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with POPULAR MUSIC--DISCOGRAPHY. categories.
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Rockin Records Buyers Sellers Reference Book And Price Guide 2010 Edition
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Author : Jerry Osborne
language : en
Publisher: Jerry Osborne Enterprises
Release Date : 2010
Rockin Records Buyers Sellers Reference Book And Price Guide 2010 Edition written by Jerry Osborne and has been published by Jerry Osborne Enterprises this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.