LIGHTnIN' HOPKINS - LIGHTnIN & LAST NIGHT BLUES – EACH 1ST EDITIONS EVER IN THIS 45 RPM SEALED 2 LP SET -ARE BOTH OUT OF PRINT AND PROBABLY ONE OF THE LAST SEALED COPIES LEFT IN THE WORLD. THESE PRESSINGS WERE  LIMITED TO 1000 PIECES ONLY & BOTH COPY ARE NUMBERED. DO YOUR HOME WORK AND YOU WILL SEE IT NOT AVAILABLE AT ANY AUDIOPHILE DEALER LEFT IN THE WORLD.

 

BONUS 33 & 1/3 LP -

LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS STRIKES VEE JAY LP 1044 - Back in 1966, when I was 15 or 16 years old, amidst all of the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Motown, folk music, folk-rock, Dylan's-gone-electric, blah-blah-blah, this and that music on the radio, I stumbled across this record. I think I paid a dollar for it, which was a lot of money for a guy who was making $1.05 bagging groceries at a local market. I must have listened to that thing until the needle on my record player wore the vinyl raw. Sitting in the basement of my house - the only place I could be alone for extended periods of time - I played along with my out-of-tune Stella guitar. I let Hopkins guitar playing and Texas-blues voice swim through me. Everyone has a starting point. I heard a few things about Lightnin' Hopkins and I believed all of it. I heard someone found Lightnin' Hopkins poor, forgotten, and hungry. I hard this record was made in a hotel room with a big old reel-to-reel tape recorder. I heard he was some old man deep in Texas. I have no idea if any of that is true. All I know is that now, when I look at that photo, I see a man far younger than I am today, and the music is the same as it was 46 years ago. It's raw, no flash, and like a window into the man's soul.

Track Listings

1. Got Me a Louisiana Woman 2. Want to Come Home 3. Please Don't Quit Me 4. Devil Is Watching You 5. Rolling and Rolling 6. War Starting Again 7. Walkin' Round in Circle 8. Mary Lou 9. Heavy Snow 10. Coon Is Hard to Catch

 

Here's How it was done FOR THE 45 SPEED AUDIOPHILE LP SETS:

Using only the original analog master tapes, the renowned team of Steve Hoffman & Kevin Gray remastered and cut all of the titles at AcousTech Mastering, which features a pure Class-A disc-cutting system. AcousTech is located at Record Technology, Inc. the plant where the vinyl was pressed. It is a tremendous sonic advantage to have the pressing plant plating department & mastering room in the same facility as Steve & Kevin could cut a lacquer and plated immediately. This prevents the degradation of the grooves in a lacquer which is very fragile to quick deterioration.

And of course cutting at 45 speed is the audiophile choice for the highes quality. A 45-RPM record is sonically superior to a 33 1/3 variety because of a 35 percent reduction of groove curvature compared to a 33 1/3 cut.. It means that while you can't fit as much music into a 45, the undukations of the groove that your cartridge has to track are stretched over a longer distance. For these reissues, the music was displaced onto four sides, meaning each side contains about 10 minutes of music.

This is the ultimate reissues. The only way you'll get closer to this classic music is to listen to the master tapes or have been in the studio with the artist originally during the actual session.

 - LAST NIGHT BLUES

For all the similarities of heritage and experience which they share, Lightnin' Hopkins and Sonny Terry were direct opposites. Where Lightnin' was leery of strange situations, dependent and suspicious, and the victim of his handicaps, Sonny was the strong one, a man on casual terms with his handicap - blindness - and one capable of warm, binding affection for the men he plays with. These personal qualities are reflected in the music heard here: Lightnin's sly charms and innocence set against Sonny's warm-hearted joy of life.

Track Listings 1.   Rocky Mountain 2.   Got to Move Your Baby 3.   So Sorry to Leave You 4.   Take a Trip With Me 5.   Last Night Blues 6.   Lightnin's Stroke 7.   Hard to Love a Woman 8.  

Conversation Blues

LIGHTNIN

   

 

45 Speed – 2 Sealed LP Set

“Recorded for Prestige's Bluesville subsidiary in 1960, Lightnin' is among the rewarding acoustic dates Lightnin' Hopkins delivered in the early '60s. The session has an informal, relaxed quality, and this approach serves a 48-year-old Hopkins impressively well on both originals like ‘Thinkin' 'Bout an Old Friend’ and the familiar ‘Katie Mae’ and enjoyable interpretations of Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee's ‘Back to New Orleans’ and Arthur ‘Big Boy’ Crudup's ‘Mean Old Frisco.’ Hopkins' only accompaniment consists of bassist Leonard Gaskin and drummer Belton Evans, both of whom play in an understated fashion and do their part to make this intimate setting successful. From the remorseful ‘Come Back Baby’ to more lighthearted, fun numbers like ‘You Better Watch Yourself’ and ‘Automobile Blues,’ Lightnin' is a lot like being in a small club with Hopkins as he shares his experiences, insights and humor with you.” — All Music Guide

1.   Automobile Blues 2.   You Better Watch Yourself 3.   Mean Old Frisco 4.   Shinin' Moon 5.   Come Back Baby 6.   Thinkin' 'Bout An Old Friend 7.   The Walkin' Blues 8.   Back To New Orleans 9.   Katie Mae 10.   Down There Baby

 

 

                         

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