Lightnin' Hopkins - Blues In My Bottle

Lightnin' Hopkins — Blues In My Bottle

The Bluesville Series from Craft Recordings and Acoustic Sounds!

Inspired by the original Prestige label imprint established in 1959

All-analog mastering by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab at Blue Heaven Studios!

180-gram vinyl pressed at Quality Record Pressings

Highlighting trailblazing blues musicians from legendary labels

This 1961 solo acoustic album by Lightnin' Hopkins features the legend at his finest. Showcasing Hopkins' guitar and vocals, Blues in My Bottle shines a spotlight on his blues mastery. The album contains Hopkins' performances of originals, traditional standards, and renditions of covers. This edition is pressed on 180-gram vinyl at QRP and features (AAA) remastered from the original tapes cut by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab.

Besides such blues standard as "Wine Spodee-O-Dee," "Business in the Bottle," and "Catfish Blues," the album contains several biographical originals, including "Beans, Beans, Beans," and "D-7."

Samuel John "Lightnin'" Hopkins was a Texas Country bluesman of the highest caliber. In 2010, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him No.71 on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. He influenced a generation of blues and country musicians from Stevie Ray Vaughan to Hank Williams Jr., while being coined "the embodiment of the jazz-and-poetry spirit" by musicologist Robert McCormick.
 
His distinctive finger-style technique included playing bass, rhythm, lead, and percussion at the same time, tapping or slapping the body of his guitar for rhythmic accompaniment.

Side A

1. Buddy Brown's Blues

2. Wine Spondee-O-Dee

3. Sail On, Little Girl, Sail On

4. DC-7

5. Death Bells

Side B

1. Goin' To Dallas To See My Pony Run

2. Jailhouse Blues

3. Blues In The Bottle

4. Beans, Beans, Beans

5. Catfish Blues

6. My Grandpa Is Old Too!

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