I had not finished my review and I wanted to add that LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS is one of the few bluesmen of his generation who managed to cross the century without really changing the musical style of its beginnings thanks to a voice that never lost its heartbreaking intensity and above all thanks to a ability to improvise constantly renewed.
This may be a stupid question but after all the footage i've seen of him why does he never use an electric? Were they not around yet or did he like the sound of an acoustic or price or what?
I heard a record shop on Wall Street in New Haven playing his album Lightnin' on the speakers in front (1960) and was hooked !... he's been my favorite blues stringer ever since. Sorry I never got to see him live in Houston... I think son Jeff might have tho.
A question for black musicians out there- where are the young black true Blues artists nowadays? I don't see any, and it breaks my heart. We need new future old school legends to keep the torch burning that the masters lit decades ago. New Country is fake. New Jazz is soulless. New rock is screaming and noise. What little new Blues there is, is WHITE. They would be nothing without BB, the Alberts, Muddy, Buddy etc. This is a white man saying this. It shouldn't be this way. Anyone else agree?
@headcase01 I agree. Whites still can play just as good.. i just think they treat it as a toy. I play blues and i know what its about. I dont think it matters what color you are. Blacks have carried the blues for a long time, maybe its our time? we just gotta treat it right, blues is a woman, among other things.
@BlueDiamondPro - I agree good playing is good playing regardless of color. What I really mean is the soul behind it. I know that without the past as it is, the inspiration for blues wouldn't be there. Stevie Ray Vaughan is one of my favorites, but I still know he's a step removed from the true essence of what the original masters brought to life. Same thing with Eminem and rap (or whatever the current term is). He may be good at what he does but he's still a follower in a certain sense.
this man was and always will be one of the Godfathers of the blues. im a blues guitarist and i cant touch a lick without referencing him is some way or form. R.I.P.
@zoarces true,i reckon if he was putting it down he would steal your woman on performance,and i would be like,"bitch you can go with that $^$*& he's a demon".He is as slick as a gold toothed rat
@bogertheogre thats because musics become a sport. no one can take it easy anymore. even when you listen to a modern player playin the so called blues, it turns out somethin like guitar olympics
@TheBrowndawg I agree with your comment, check out my blues. I try and keep it real. I have loved Lightnin' from the very first note I ever heard him play!
@bogertheogre i dont know anything about disney but i'll just say that you can find inspiration everywhere, so fuck disney, "you know mother goose? ya i fucked her." ice cube said that...
i'm a young guy and i've had a deep respect for the blues for a long time now, but i have also opened myself up to newer music and i have to say there is a lot more good coming out of this generation than it appears at the surface
trust me you won't find it on mtv but its out there in forms that are just as innovative as rock'n'roll was in the beginning
but if you really can't stand modern music i'd like to see you actually DO something about it instead of just complaining about it
@bogertheogre i use to listen to the new stuff. about a year ago (my highschool sophomore year) my art teacher had lightnin hopkins playin and the blues is all i listen to, play, its my life. not all of us are corrupted.
@bogertheogre He's still left a great legacy behind for us to pick up on if we want to. Listin to the way Dan Aurback of The Black Keys plays. It's alot like Lightnin'.
This is so legit, music from the soul, for the soul, you know the blues are gonna dwell with you, i cant get these blues off my mind....break it down for us lightnin
i think a little of that is artistic and shows a lot of emotion (like the close up of the face) but yeah it went on too long... and got too close. haha
Are you retarded or just a racist? There is no shot in this entire video that exclusively features the mans nose. There are in fact shots where which the mans mouth are featured, perhaps, because an unknown number of muscles are used to smile (10-15) and to frown (50-100), and thats the fucking blues.
RU high. Did you even read what I wrote in the middle of your dunken stooper. As a guitar player I want to c one of the greatest blues men of all time play. Try to stay off the drugs so you dont look like a complete fool on a public forum. Dilweed!!
@barrelfever whats the point in explaining the human anatomy here? I mean I get what youre sayin but hagtar wasnt being racist at all. fk sake man. He was merely sayin that the shots arent very good and I think a whole lotta people wanna see Lightnin PLAY this instead of seeing his face throughout the entire fkn thing. Nothin racist about that. My gawd. We can go to YT and listen to the blues and learn anatomy at the same time. Now thats technology. ( partly sarcastic here)
@NoRosesForMe Thx, I think that dude was high or drunk or something. As a fan and guitarist I have every recording lightnin has avail. Just seems like the director could have actually shown the man playing. I really do think the director musta been high when he filmed it. But this isnt the only examp. I mean hendrix films are the same way, Jimmy page.....etc. You get my point. Thx for being sober when you commented. LOL
@hagtar12 LOL!! So funny. Youre very welcome. Ive watched this bit of footage for a year or so and every time -I think about the close-ups. Ive seen a lot of this in other films too. Rory Gallagher's Irish Tour film is the same. You catch a few glimpses of his hands and his actual playing. But most of the time its too close-up or,,,,,,just his face & singing and not enough emphasis in his playing and the bands playing-etc. Lightnin & Rory are my most favorites. Its from heaven. For real man.
I wish I could have heard the whole song before the interview. Does anyone know the title? Ol' Lightnin' was bad...one of the baddedst there ever was...no joke! For those that don't agree, I can tell you where to go, how to get there, and where to buy the ticket....just ask, and I'll tell you!
Lightnin Slim (Otis Hicks) was made to get the blues by Jay Miller, who would tell him bad, sad stories to get him down" so he would perform dem blues with more pain, check out his Excello stuff, Winter time blues, Tom Cat blues,
Besides my dad, I've never loved another man like I do Lightnin', I wish i could've met him, he seems so real, so down to earth, so in touch with life!
this is amazing. i really mean amazing. not only is this the best lightnin video its also the best peice of film i have ever seen. he can play so sweetly but that sound can break bones, man he can play. this inspires me so much and i can only dream one day i might be able to play a quater as good as him. he is the deffinition of cool as well as the deffinition of musician. you can tell he knows it too but keeps it all under his hat (so to speak). one day man!!!!...one day!
He played along the Houston streets and in the hole-in-the wall clubs for most of his career, not just toward the end. He appeared in several movies created for the African-American market ( as a musician) in Hollywood just after WWII, then went back to Houston. Toward the end of the 1960's he was 'discovered' and pretty much made the bigtime, playing concerts and headlining all over the world, however he would often hit the old Houston clubs and play a set or two even then.
Electrifying!Thanks for this ! I would like to dedicate my personal love of this to someone who makes myriad colour sparks fly, and who Sparkles luminescently herself...Christine xX "You'll always hear this in your heart..."
Truly the greatest man ever existed, although i must admit he's got a good company of other fellow bluesmen from the delta. his energy will be remembered for eternity even if I'm not a religious bastard i wish he'll rest in mojofull peace
I saw The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins documentary on C4 (English TV channel) in about 1985 and it was the very reason I fell in love with the blues. God bless Lightin' and I hope he's still playing away up there in the great blues bar in the sky. Awesome.
Ol' Sam's the best. ....and his hair is awesome kirkevin. Anything this man did, said, wore or played was too cool for our lame ass world. God bless him.
THE BLUES. One musician that embodied, sweat and lived the Paints. The Blues, a man with no Degree, piece of paper, certificate, etc. A MAN. Sharing his gift of his Humanity. No Phony shit MAN! "How can we market this?" "Whats the trend?" "Whats so and so listening to on the waves." Questions today from Hollow, no sense men and woman. Cryin Assssss Shame. I pity You and your sprouts. Thats all.
This man's got some preacher in him, teaching people a way to get through the hard times of life with the gifts of music, dance and laughter. Thanks for posting this great clip.
Had a brief meeting with Mr. Sam (my longtime blues hero) back a ways at the Coffee Gallery in SF and he was a real sweetheart and the real heart and soul of the blues. May he live forever.
man is very talented.Wish I could play like that,only thing he should have done is get a haircut,I guess thats the hopkins in him,mine looks kind of like his and Im half hopkins ;o)
no guitar sound, sounds better than when it's crying.
1023Coyote 2 weeks ago
SIN PALABRAS....SAM ES EL MEJOR!!!!!!!!
CARLOSMORA71 1 month ago
« Thank you again for the video
I had not finished my review and I wanted to add that LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS is one of the few bluesmen of his generation who managed to cross the century without really changing the musical style of its beginnings thanks to a voice that never lost its heartbreaking intensity and above all thanks to a ability to improvise constantly renewed.
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05212528 1 month ago in playlist blues
Thank You fot your video
LIGHTNIN’ HOPKINS is fascinating
The humor is B-L-U-S-E, the atmosphere is B-L-U-S-E, the distribution is B-L-U-S-E.
LIGHTNIN’ HOPKINS is the leading expert of the genre,
He wakes up B-L-U-S-E, B-L-U-S-E he eats, he drinks B-L-U-S-E, he saw B-L-U-S-E,
B-L-U-S-E he falls asleep.
The B-L-U-S-E came into him from his 8 years, never to leave.
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05212528 1 month ago in playlist blues
coolest hair style haha
peonwarrior 2 months ago
"and this what she said"...... Ain't that the truth!
wize357 2 months ago in playlist wize357's favorites
J'me lasserai vraiment jamais d'ce bonhomme ...Il est le blues!!!
feelingproject 3 months ago
who says blues rock originated in england???
pinoyblues69 4 months ago
@pinoyblues69 the English
SmileyGarrish 3 months ago in playlist Lightnin' Hopkins
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this is the best music there is! if you love raw blues you might like Rat Stomp :)
youtube.com/user/ratstompmusic
Our song Reckless Woman and Searching the Forest have a Delta blues style with slide guitar and fingerpicking
ratstompmusic 4 months ago
one bad mf!
notbendable 4 months ago
This is real !!! Po' Lightning is the King !!!
standelman95 5 months ago
thats what she said
MelvinWren 5 months ago
SO COOL
TheRongcar 5 months ago
He definitely had a sound all his own. No one better!
mikeandmona 6 months ago
"There's Something About Lightnin'"
TheGrinningCrow 7 months ago
WOW!!!!!! Is all I can say
rasdennis 8 months ago
Such an inspiration Lightnin is to me! much respect to this man
davehastheblues1 8 months ago 2
i feel like he'd hand me a beer and say something like "lis'nup sunnah" then tell me something like this. think i'm going to go get some sun glasses.
knite778778 9 months ago
I've got the blues from listening to Po' Lightning!
jmalbornoz 9 months ago
what's the name of the songs? i just have the placer to know this man :) The blues... no words to describe it!!!
coralnumerocinco 9 months ago
"When I play guitar, I play it from my heart..."
Lightin knew what is real!
Stevie
papnevelde 9 months ago 3
What song is he playing in the beginning???
SlipKnoTtater 10 months ago
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"That's what she said" 2:11 vote up!!!!!!!
dylanvinita 10 months ago
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dylanvinita 10 months ago
This may be a stupid question but after all the footage i've seen of him why does he never use an electric? Were they not around yet or did he like the sound of an acoustic or price or what?
TheBalloonHoax 10 months ago
@TheBalloonHoax theres some videos of him playin electric, not such a huge change in the style
TheSatanas666 8 months ago
I heard a record shop on Wall Street in New Haven playing his album Lightnin' on the speakers in front (1960) and was hooked !... he's been my favorite blues stringer ever since. Sorry I never got to see him live in Houston... I think son Jeff might have tho.
hamby43 11 months ago
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hamby43 11 months ago
this music is blissful, shame the quality of playing is not there anymore, i mean someone just name someone who can play as good as this guy now days
Girlintheboxstudios 11 months ago
I bet they didnt tell him to comb his hair,
Matter of fact, I bet they didnt fuck w/him at all .
FIRECRACKER392 1 year ago
THIS music IS like COLD water IN my BURNING brain ... feels GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD
om3g4z3r0 1 year ago
awesomeee as much as it can be
prakop999 1 year ago
A question for black musicians out there- where are the young black true Blues artists nowadays? I don't see any, and it breaks my heart. We need new future old school legends to keep the torch burning that the masters lit decades ago. New Country is fake. New Jazz is soulless. New rock is screaming and noise. What little new Blues there is, is WHITE. They would be nothing without BB, the Alberts, Muddy, Buddy etc. This is a white man saying this. It shouldn't be this way. Anyone else agree?
headcase01 1 year ago
@headcase01 I agree. Whites still can play just as good.. i just think they treat it as a toy. I play blues and i know what its about. I dont think it matters what color you are. Blacks have carried the blues for a long time, maybe its our time? we just gotta treat it right, blues is a woman, among other things.
BlueDiamondPro 1 year ago
@BlueDiamondPro - I agree good playing is good playing regardless of color. What I really mean is the soul behind it. I know that without the past as it is, the inspiration for blues wouldn't be there. Stevie Ray Vaughan is one of my favorites, but I still know he's a step removed from the true essence of what the original masters brought to life. Same thing with Eminem and rap (or whatever the current term is). He may be good at what he does but he's still a follower in a certain sense.
headcase01 1 year ago
hot damn that boy can play
trippykoolaid 1 year ago
far beyond brilliant,the real deal!!
PutridDalez 1 year ago
this full video is available on stagevu.com...as of sept.11 2010
brohmanski 1 year ago
I think they were shooting from that direction to capture the gold teeth in his mouth, not his nostrils . . . . .
kstewintheart4u 1 year ago
I think they were shooting from that direction to capture the gold teeth in his mouth, not his nostrils . . . . .
kstewintheart4u 1 year ago
this man was and always will be one of the Godfathers of the blues. im a blues guitarist and i cant touch a lick without referencing him is some way or form. R.I.P.
mmaluverBAD06 1 year ago
what a dude!!!
howlin32 1 year ago
one more time .....hmmm da man
oldgrunt32 1 year ago
The MAN.
odep954 1 year ago 6
Lightnin is one of the best acoustic blues masters of all time.
StartingwithSoul 1 year ago 2
this is the pure essence of blues!!!
sigilopator 1 year ago 2
Man... His hair is looking FANTASIC at about 40 seconds! LOL
tellmeitsnottaken 1 year ago 2
awesome. Lightning is so cool.Look at em go.
thefenderbluesking 1 year ago
Sam Lightnin Hopkins may be the coolest man who ever lived.
zoarces 1 year ago 5
@zoarces true,i reckon if he was putting it down he would steal your woman on performance,and i would be like,"bitch you can go with that $^$*& he's a demon".He is as slick as a gold toothed rat
DanielGrozier 1 month ago
Lightnin' is the man!
toddallenhooper 1 year ago
My favourite blues musician.
CelticReject 1 year ago 2
this guy its like muddy waters strong mofos
casu3 1 year ago
nice movie !
tinida 1 year ago
doctor doctor, i have the news.
i have a case of the blues.
keywolf23 1 year ago
cool as the other side of the pillow
classicrob55 1 year ago 2
He knew that he was cool as shit!
NobodyYou1 1 year ago
I heard him play live in Chicago the year after this film was made. Possibly the most influential Texas blues player to date.
chiron8839 1 year ago
this is probably the coolest thing I've ever seen
buffalobilly 1 year ago 7
Hail Satan!
Barano 1 year ago
Amazing.
Asymmatrix 1 year ago 3
R.I.P. if only musicians were of this same caliber now a days. i'm ashamed of the quality coming out of my generation
bogertheogre 2 years ago 42
@bogertheogre yeah no shit
grundgeguitargod 2 years ago
@bogertheogre indeed, same feeling mate
SmokingHound 1 year ago 2
@bogertheogre thats because musics become a sport. no one can take it easy anymore. even when you listen to a modern player playin the so called blues, it turns out somethin like guitar olympics
TheBrowndawg 1 year ago 3
@TheBrowndawg I agree with your comment, check out my blues. I try and keep it real. I have loved Lightnin' from the very first note I ever heard him play!
toddallenhooper 1 year ago
@bogertheogre speakin the truth. im doin somethin about this problem you should too
skinnydoggyz 1 year ago
@skinnydoggyz
i try, but it is hard to impress something like this on someone who thinks that the new thing that disney is producing is God's gift to music
bogertheogre 1 year ago
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skinnydoggyz 1 year ago
@bogertheogre i dont know anything about disney but i'll just say that you can find inspiration everywhere, so fuck disney, "you know mother goose? ya i fucked her." ice cube said that...
skinnydoggyz 1 year ago
@bogertheogre I agree with ya'. I'd love to hear what you think of my blues, let me know!
toddallenhooper 1 year ago
i'm a young guy and i've had a deep respect for the blues for a long time now, but i have also opened myself up to newer music and i have to say there is a lot more good coming out of this generation than it appears at the surface
trust me you won't find it on mtv but its out there in forms that are just as innovative as rock'n'roll was in the beginning
but if you really can't stand modern music i'd like to see you actually DO something about it instead of just complaining about it
whoisit01 1 year ago
@bogertheogre i use to listen to the new stuff. about a year ago (my highschool sophomore year) my art teacher had lightnin hopkins playin and the blues is all i listen to, play, its my life. not all of us are corrupted.
GoofyPenguin525 11 months ago
@bogertheogre He's still left a great legacy behind for us to pick up on if we want to. Listin to the way Dan Aurback of The Black Keys plays. It's alot like Lightnin'.
johnnychaos91185 9 months ago
@bogertheogre AGREED
bmparatrooper 8 months ago
@bogertheogre +1
stolli1986 6 months ago
Beautiful!!!
Grandma mary
Fr3derick 2 years ago
Lightnin' Hopkins got it all>Plyin' style,voice,dress up,expression totally unique.
Bluezking 2 years ago 4
thanks for sending this!!!!
stratocaster1959 2 years ago 2
what is this clip from?
ZenWolf777 2 years ago
The Blues According to Lightnin' Hopkins a short film made by Flower Films in '67.
They did a Mance Lipscomb one too I think
allenesp 2 years ago 2
Great Blues!!!
theblueshotel 2 years ago
coolest cat ever
and just look at his hair, they dont make em like him anymore
Lightning Rules !
Thanks you so much for posting this
Cyclopat 2 years ago 2
once you had the blues, they never leave
blikethat 2 years ago 4
Man he's feelin' it
EliLevac 2 years ago 2
my favourite bluesmen ever, no one and i NO ONE could play in E better then this guy
toby099 2 years ago 4
he could probably drink a glass, smoke a cigarette, and have a conversation while playing a blues shuffle without skipping a beat. unreal.
imjburks 2 years ago 6
This is so legit, music from the soul, for the soul, you know the blues are gonna dwell with you, i cant get these blues off my mind....break it down for us lightnin
MattMontedoro 2 years ago
something about mary was named after this interview. the legend lives on
hugleberthumperdink 2 years ago 2
Great Video!
Tonefid115 2 years ago
This is truly amazing! If blues would have a name it would be Lightning Hopkins."The blues is a funny feeling. people would call it a bad disease".
straffevlaarhoven 2 years ago
Lighting Hopkins is having a bad hair day ?
eclipse8978 2 years ago
I love that wild rooster look he's got goin' on.
subterranean47 2 years ago
Lightnin Hopkins never has a bad hair day. He could put his right arm in his left pocket and raise himself up at arms length.
Immaculate416 2 years ago 3
"And uh... I just keeps it up"
Incredible guy.
elkrobber 2 years ago
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mnclesunkey 2 years ago
ya know i think the directors and cameramen were on drugs in the 60's. I mean why film his nostrils. For god sake lets see him play.
hagtar12 2 years ago 22
i think a little of that is artistic and shows a lot of emotion (like the close up of the face) but yeah it went on too long... and got too close. haha
jahnnedoe 2 years ago
@hagtar12
Are you retarded or just a racist? There is no shot in this entire video that exclusively features the mans nose. There are in fact shots where which the mans mouth are featured, perhaps, because an unknown number of muscles are used to smile (10-15) and to frown (50-100), and thats the fucking blues.
barrelfever 1 year ago
@barrelfever
RU high. Did you even read what I wrote in the middle of your dunken stooper. As a guitar player I want to c one of the greatest blues men of all time play. Try to stay off the drugs so you dont look like a complete fool on a public forum. Dilweed!!
hagtar12 1 year ago
@barrelfever whats the point in explaining the human anatomy here? I mean I get what youre sayin but hagtar wasnt being racist at all. fk sake man. He was merely sayin that the shots arent very good and I think a whole lotta people wanna see Lightnin PLAY this instead of seeing his face throughout the entire fkn thing. Nothin racist about that. My gawd. We can go to YT and listen to the blues and learn anatomy at the same time. Now thats technology. ( partly sarcastic here)
NoRosesForMe 1 year ago
@NoRosesForMe Thx, I think that dude was high or drunk or something. As a fan and guitarist I have every recording lightnin has avail. Just seems like the director could have actually shown the man playing. I really do think the director musta been high when he filmed it. But this isnt the only examp. I mean hendrix films are the same way, Jimmy page.....etc. You get my point. Thx for being sober when you commented. LOL
hagtar12 1 year ago
@hagtar12 LOL!! So funny. Youre very welcome. Ive watched this bit of footage for a year or so and every time -I think about the close-ups. Ive seen a lot of this in other films too. Rory Gallagher's Irish Tour film is the same. You catch a few glimpses of his hands and his actual playing. But most of the time its too close-up or,,,,,,just his face & singing and not enough emphasis in his playing and the bands playing-etc. Lightnin & Rory are my most favorites. Its from heaven. For real man.
NoRosesForMe 1 year ago
@hagtar12 LOL! omg ,,,now that you mention it.....
NoRosesForMe 1 year ago
If there's a better blues player/singer than Lightin' Hopkins, we I haven't heard him yet
pepper583 2 years ago 4
an we never will
ADILPROUD 2 years ago
I wish I could have heard the whole song before the interview. Does anyone know the title? Ol' Lightnin' was bad...one of the baddedst there ever was...no joke! For those that don't agree, I can tell you where to go, how to get there, and where to buy the ticket....just ask, and I'll tell you!
crazymikeburles 2 years ago
Tell me.
pablo4 2 years ago
duh!!!
greentree75 2 years ago
wow that guy can strum!
jackssheduk 2 years ago
Shiiiit! Sometimes the Silence speeks loudest. Daaamn this IS the Shiit! It´s all I have to say..
Viking0fNorway 2 years ago
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Borst79 2 years ago
That's got more feeling and power than anything I've ever seen before! I'm speechless. You can really feel his pain caused by his ol' lady.
Pythonpathan 2 years ago
Lightnin Slim (Otis Hicks) was made to get the blues by Jay Miller, who would tell him bad, sad stories to get him down" so he would perform dem blues with more pain, check out his Excello stuff, Winter time blues, Tom Cat blues,
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gitfiddlejim 2 years ago
lightnin'.
MinorMeriwether 2 years ago
Great video...where did you get this from?
bodiddleybodiddley 2 years ago
now thats the blues at its best thanks Mr. Hopkins you make playing guitar a whole new thing..
DarkJosh99 2 years ago
what guitar and phone on amp uses in this videos???
srvvaughan93 2 years ago
I believe that's a Gibson J-50, "THE" acoustic blues guitar. Great bass tones.
2711913 2 years ago
He could play anything and make it sound good
Immaculate416 2 years ago
Now thats what i'm talking bout,these are the men srv and many greats listened to.
MrCaribbean 2 years ago
what's the name of the first song?
at the beginning of the clip?
adipayne 2 years ago
Blues Blues and Blues
Bluzer86 2 years ago
Lightnin Hopkins is pure music and feeling. That guy knew exactly what he was doing.
KaiBailey 2 years ago
lord have mercy.
Th3Turtl3 2 years ago
Besides my dad, I've never loved another man like I do Lightnin', I wish i could've met him, he seems so real, so down to earth, so in touch with life!
toddallenhooper 2 years ago
woke up this mornin, my hair was a mess,woke up this mornin but i could not care less
liquidyodel 2 years ago 3
oh man - I've seen this film a thousand times
still gets me every time
can't get the chicken-skin to go away
Deep Blues
SamSimonBlues 2 years ago
met tony joe white the other night, he reckons lightning was one of his main influences, i can see why
awsome
KIWIBLUES 2 years ago
definitely awesome man
definitely
duvaldallas 2 years ago
ya better pick ya guitar up brother and jam right now, good for ya soul
KIWIBLUES 2 years ago
you've now been inoculated
notbendable 2 years ago
god damb
MinorMeriwether 2 years ago
any questions you have just contact me. he was my great great uncle an this is no lie.
ITYO5B 2 years ago 6
is this from a documentary or something? where can i find this for my DVD player?!!???
wolfsystem 2 years ago
It's from a Les Blank movie called "The Blues According to Lightnin' Hopkins"
Josba16 2 years ago
this is amazing. i really mean amazing. not only is this the best lightnin video its also the best peice of film i have ever seen. he can play so sweetly but that sound can break bones, man he can play. this inspires me so much and i can only dream one day i might be able to play a quater as good as him. he is the deffinition of cool as well as the deffinition of musician. you can tell he knows it too but keeps it all under his hat (so to speak). one day man!!!!...one day!
laceythepoon 2 years ago 4
i have an ex boyfriend called sam hopkins... weird...
aakack 2 years ago
whoever posted this video has the Best taste in music because this is the finest blues video these eyes have ever seen - ty
shagnon11 2 years ago 2
Sweet, sweet blues. I'm addicted for life.
DeckardWill 3 years ago
keith richards rips off his guitar riffs and moves.just watch
frankeesh 3 years ago 4
i hear those cords every night thanks to Lightnin
javonblue 3 years ago 2
Now this is heavy, I mean low-down heavy feelin' blues.
88ragtime 3 years ago 3
From 3:37 to3:50 that is the epitome of laid back.....UNBELIEVABLE!
68blues 3 years ago 3
"thats what she said"
wat.
poorperson 3 years ago
He played along the Houston streets and in the hole-in-the wall clubs for most of his career, not just toward the end. He appeared in several movies created for the African-American market ( as a musician) in Hollywood just after WWII, then went back to Houston. Toward the end of the 1960's he was 'discovered' and pretty much made the bigtime, playing concerts and headlining all over the world, however he would often hit the old Houston clubs and play a set or two even then.
vinegaroon1 3 years ago
this is probably the best lighnin' hopkins vid i've ever seen.
aacotter 3 years ago 3
Electrifying!Thanks for this ! I would like to dedicate my personal love of this to someone who makes myriad colour sparks fly, and who Sparkles luminescently herself...Christine xX "You'll always hear this in your heart..."
PennyTraition 3 years ago
Thanks Pen sure do luv ya...This man's every breath is a work of art and soul. Some of us were "born" with IT, it's in our DNA, a life sentence.
Lord Have Mercy.....
sparkalot 3 years ago
the song sounds really spontaneous
megarocky 3 years ago
sam may have been the coolest motherfucker ever to walk the face of the earth!
aballballball 3 years ago 7
This is true Music. blues... B.L.U.E.S. can't get more honest than this. beautiful bends. tha's blues.
adkdi 3 years ago 2
what movie is that taken from? do you have it all or just more? :-))
DC47sdfsdf 3 years ago
The Blues According to Lightnin' Hopkins by Les Blank (1967)
CHAFARAP010653 3 years ago
The blues for real.
codder63 3 years ago
Lightnin' is the pimp vibe. Cool as ice and blue to the bone, American treasure.
jm4u2b4 3 years ago 3
He just play.
He just plays the blues.
As you take a breath.
Greetings from hungary!
gregzzblog 3 years ago 2
Truly the greatest man ever existed, although i must admit he's got a good company of other fellow bluesmen from the delta. his energy will be remembered for eternity even if I'm not a religious bastard i wish he'll rest in mojofull peace
pinofrancominghella 3 years ago
Delta? He's from Texas, isn't he?
stratman323 3 years ago
This is what poetry means to me.
47LSD 3 years ago 2
the coolness in person. a legend, real bluesman. feel it ^^
Kologe78 3 years ago
thanks for this amazing post.
funwigfive 3 years ago
funky-fresh
moneydepp 3 years ago
gangsta shit
jrat801 3 years ago
gotta love him
pablofp0 3 years ago
woah! At the start, is he playing the acoustic guitar with an overdrive ?
watevalah 3 years ago
3:30 is the best..lightnin'the man
jour1245 3 years ago
I saw The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins documentary on C4 (English TV channel) in about 1985 and it was the very reason I fell in love with the blues. God bless Lightin' and I hope he's still playing away up there in the great blues bar in the sky. Awesome.
rimboTHEbad 3 years ago
Ol' Sam's the best. ....and his hair is awesome kirkevin. Anything this man did, said, wore or played was too cool for our lame ass world. God bless him.
stacyblue1980 3 years ago 3
soooo good!
jujutek 3 years ago
wow. A legend PERIOD.
claptonhendrix1 3 years ago 3
THE BLUES. One musician that embodied, sweat and lived the Paints. The Blues, a man with no Degree, piece of paper, certificate, etc. A MAN. Sharing his gift of his Humanity. No Phony shit MAN! "How can we market this?" "Whats the trend?" "Whats so and so listening to on the waves." Questions today from Hollow, no sense men and woman. Cryin Assssss Shame. I pity You and your sprouts. Thats all.
blueRiff1 3 years ago 3
This man's got some preacher in him, teaching people a way to get through the hard times of life with the gifts of music, dance and laughter. Thanks for posting this great clip.
ChavezRey 3 years ago 2
greattttttttttt
bluesgirl62 3 years ago
Had a brief meeting with Mr. Sam (my longtime blues hero) back a ways at the Coffee Gallery in SF and he was a real sweetheart and the real heart and soul of the blues. May he live forever.
2711913 3 years ago
He was the bluest of the bluesmen. I been treated unkind myself.
groundhogger 3 years ago
i been there
woman staying out the house all night
me & thechildren home wondering where momma is....
these songs are tears engraved in wood and steel....
999810 3 years ago
man is very talented.Wish I could play like that,only thing he should have done is get a haircut,I guess thats the hopkins in him,mine looks kind of like his and Im half hopkins ;o)
klrkevin 3 years ago
This is THE Blues!