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  • Caan't you keep it to yourself? If you have a deep scar, you usually don't show it off.

  • I have to say I prefer the Amboy Dukes version...respect due of course.

  • oh...you meant when the song was written?  my mistake, I think.

  • did u say 1935? more like 1965.

  • theres a reason you aint see no vevo for men like these...

  • @petrcotontail im not disagreeing with you at all besides the fact you blamed school cuts on kids not learning how to play a instrument.

  • Someone with the audio skills.. please clean this up..great artist..great song.. what you go to lose?!

  • @mudlabz Its still brilliant it was recorded in 1935 what do you exspect i think the quality gives it a uniqueness

  • You are a full-throttle moron.

    ignorant post deleted unread

    ignorant troll blocked

    atheist total fail

  • hey sam !!!!

  • Follow up on twitter @ScumbagProblem1

  • 37 are deaf ass.

  • any one else think this sounds like big bill broonzy's song called hey hey

  • @equalikitty Maybe a little.I love them both.

  • if you do not like the blues GTFO!

  • Aint no doubt about it, Lightnin was a blues man of the greatest caliber!

    You guys should keep profanity out of your posts. Have respect for others and especially the kids who enjoy youtube. Don't you know by now that when you abuse a privilege, eventually that privilege is taken away and you ruin it for everybody. Posting here is a privilege, not a right.

  • @ytoobdood I agree with you 100%. The original poster simply put up a harmless lovely old video of a good musician performing a very well known old song (no more no less). I don't understand why things need to get so out of hand over this innocent deed. If I can't find something positive to say about any Youtube video, I simply say nothing at all. It's a shame that faceless anonymous people take advantage of these facts to abuse and insult each other so much.

  • @PonytailRuth I think most of the people with the attitudes are teenagers. It's too bad they want to negate and belittle. I believe most of this kind of behavior comes out of frustration. They need a place to vent and do it anonymously. Most likely, they are good kids.

  • and I thought Jimmi Hendrix was good

  • girls absolutely destroy me

  • man this dude can play oh yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • I Like The Way AC/DC Play It

  • lightin hopkins guitar skills... is he up there with the masters?

  • @toby099 THATS A TERRIBLE QUESTION OF COURSE HE IS :D

  • Woo!! These Youtube arguments are really making progress people, keep it up!!! Oh, great video... blah blah blah...

  • QUE BUENO ES CUANDO EL HOMBRE CREA LA MÚSICA Y NO HACE QUE LA TECNOLOGÍA LA CREE POR EL, PORQUE HAY ES CUANDO LA MÚSICA SE DESHUMANIZA , DEJA DE SER ARTE.

  • The guitar is quite simply second nature to this man. Not even the slightest detection of strain.

    I'm Burnin with Envy.

  • The true answer to why there has been a decline in music is technology, if it werent for computers speeding up everything and making anything accessible then average people wouldnt go out and believe they can make music. No soul, no struggle, no good.

  • There are plenty of great musicians out there. You just don't ever hear them on the radio or see them on tv because big record execs in suits who think they know music better than all of us would say it "doesn't sell", which I find hilarious because all those dudes from the British invasion did incredibly well for themselves and were all heavily influenced by blues musicians such as Lightnin'. Sadly many of those bluesmen couldn't say the same due to the racial climate in the U.S. in those days.

  • Lets say: How did we get from good music to all that new sh*t thats on the radio and so on?

    A pity music changed that way! 

  • Mr. Lightnin Hopkins was such a Great Artist!!

  • Sam & the Mud was the Best

  • why would you dislike this? i mean, why?

  • Black and White film..Countless years have gone by since he recorded this video, yet Lightnin Hopkins - still rocks....

  • Gary Glitter covered this in the early seventies...probably the only "camp" version recorded.

  • thank you very much.

  • this is what COOL looks and sounds like

  • why does it seem like there is a whole band behind this one man and guitar? massive talent here.

  • Luvit! "Down to New Orleans, you know I love you so." Just used some of the lyrics in a school-essay.

  • The difference for me is that Blues are emotions and real life feelings expressed through music.

    It has nothing to do with money.

    But for the modern music industry (in general) they are revenue driven...They try to please people instead of sharing what they are feeling through their music....

  • please do not generalize "all black people" blues and rap are music from the black experience, when "white people" began pouring money into the music thats when it moved away from the real black experience, rap became an acceptable medium to describe what was going on in tha hood. if Lightnin' Hopkins was born 40 yrs l8tr he would have been a rapper

  • Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters etc etc? Legends of black blues......what happened to folks?

  • justin bieber justin bieber justin bieber justin bieber jusghvf bievvv yuobb jhygtuftuidfitiy oh its driving me mad

  • legend...

  • Damn.

  • a raw and authentic sound that resonates with the heart and soul... touched with thanks!

  • Don't know. How did white folks go from Bix Beiderbecke to Justin Bieber?

    I would blame the record labels, mostly. But I would also have to observe that there weren't too many white folks listening to this music when it was being made.

    Similarly, I suspect that there are more than a few black folks that don't much care for rap.

  • Z Z Topp without the beards ....or the kilowatts

  • @u2karla check out "Billy Gibbons Guitar Lesson Video" he explains blues techniques and styles and where he got his all from

  • BLUES... what a feelin? click on our channel = The Downtown Train is true L.A. Blues. watch our video covering this tune (it's our only cover)

  • wow this director is amazing. he knows how to point the camera at the artist and leave it there ;-)

  • just discovered this guy. he is freaking awesome!

  • outcoolin dexter gordon

  • how black folks went from this to that rap garbage is beyond me

  • @nicholasbhicks Black folks left the rural areas and moved to the city to find a better life. Rap was part of a changing lifestyle. Urban blacks were leaving the cotton field (and it's music) behind. "That rap garbage" at least the GARBAGE part, is a result of white-owned labels pumping money into the image of the Ni__a we see and hear today. Much of the buying audience consists of suburban kids trying to piss off their parents etc.

  • @nicholasbhicks It hasnt all been garbage, although nearly all rap today lacks lyrical substance and musical quality. I'd love to see contemporary musicians (of all colors) take a big step back to this sound. ...doubt mainstream pop culture's stereotyping it as "hick" or whatever would allow it to gain any momentum though.

  • @nicholasbhicks Thanks to big corporation money and art has been drowned out by corporate greed. Spend enough money you can dictate what the public gets to see and hear (as we're reminded by politics).

  • @nicholasbhicks Because black folks have to keep inventing new kinds of music for white folks to copy.I am white in case your'e wondering.

  • @mjtrux Black folks in general don't appreciate the blues. The youth would rather listen to crap like rap.

  • @nicholasbhicks Amen!

  • @nicholasbhicks I imagine Rick James is to blame.

  • @nicholasbhicks time is the essence of change. I love lightenin and the blues, I just love them, but somehow I can't just deny the change and I've learnt to enjoy the difference.

  • @nicholasbhicks more money in rap and that all people care about

  • @nicholasbhicks

    how white folks went from folk music to that "new" country garbage is beyond me

  • @AleSwigger i dont know cause i only listen to old stuff

  • @AleSwigger maybe cuz the beatles?

  • @AleSwigger Because Lightnin Hopkins finger-picks so his guitar has a richer ound than folks who just strum.

  • @nicholasbhicks its the same fucking thing you idiot, it's music from one generation to another showing the social changes and reflecting the minds of the people. you think this was approved when it first came out? no it wasnt, beatles rolling stones took it marketed it and played it out, hip hop is just a bunch of poor people from south bronx making music from what they had = record players, school cuts made it impossible to learn any instruments so fuck off

  • @petrcotontail Well spoken that man.

  • @nicholasbhicks it's easy...go back to sharecropping and put jim crow laws back into effect. rap will be gone and the blues will be back

  • @MrSkeegeedawg I hope you die, you piece of shit

  • @MrTAD359 meet me at 17 carruthers st hawkinsville,ga and i'll kick your bitch ass

  • @MrSkeegeedawg

    aha, dude im scared shitless. like ahh. dont hurt me man

  • @MrTAD359 you scary punk. i knew you were a coward...lol

  • @MrSkeegeedawg

    sssssssarcassmm

  • @MrSkeegeedawg

    But seriously stop being a fuckin racist. nobody likes racist ppl. except other racist ppl. but they are all fags so i guess it doesnt matter

  • @MrTAD359 doesn't matter to me. you're still a worthless coward

  • @MrSkeegeedawg how could you possibly know that? Im not gonna travel that far just to kick the shit out of someone

  • @MrTAD359 it'll be a one way trip for you...you'll go back home in a body bag

  • @MrSkeegeedawg Im gonna eat you

  • @MrTAD359 you stinking COWARD

  • @MrSkeegeedawg You're probably like 12.

  • @MrTAD359 you're just a jackass that has never lived in rural GA,ALA or MISS. you'll never feel or understand the blues....you LOSER

  • @MrSkeegeedawg I'm 14. I've lived in the Southern part of Mississippi half my life. I move a lot, because my dad is in the Army. YOu don't really need to live a rural area to feel or understand the blues, even though I know exactly where you are coming from.

  • @vanzeposmith910 thanks. there are still small isolated towns in the deep south where blacks still know their place and who's really in charge. i live in one of those places. it's called hawkinsville,ga....now that's the blues for your ass

  • @MrSkeegeedawg I live in one of those towns. My entire family lives there. It's called Lucedale Mississippi. Guess what? It's in the deep south too. I don't fell you have to be a southerner to enjoy the blues. B.B. King went to Russia and Tokyo back in the 70's and they couldn't get enough of the blues.

  • @vanzeposmith910 yeah dude'

  • @vanzeposmith910 i'm talking about niggers FEELING the blues. niggers in hawkinsville,ga know their place. the white man runs this town

  • @MrSkeegeedawg If your racist towards blacks, then why listen to the blues?

  • @vanzeposmith910 i love those ole black negro bluesman. they went through hell during jim crow. it's this new generation of lazy gang banging piece of shit niggers that i don't like. they're destroying the fabric of america

  • @MrSkeegeedawg dont be rasict

  • @MrTAD359 news flash...I AM RACIST

  • @nicholasbhicks Blues > Jazz > Funk > Hip-Hop > Rap

    Now you know.

  • @Scrappy1138 hahahaha

  • @nicholasbhicks How did white folk go from Bach to Backstreet Boys? Don't make generalisations.

  • @IDcrisisJP thats what im sayin!

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  • @IDcrisisJP Uhh that was one group... not a whole movement of SHIT music that someone is still around... haha typical nigger ignorance

  • @AssassinSteven Sounds like typical denial to me. White boy bands were huge in the 90s, and you could definitely call it a movement. There are just as many white artists with autotuned pop singles today as there are any other race. By the way, I'm white and I still manage to see arguments from both sides. You should try it, you'll probably learn far more than you think.

  • @IDcrisisJP Bachstreet Boyz xD

  • @IDcrisisJP probably the best retorte on YOUTUBE ever bigggest respects to you for that ...

  • @IDcrisisJP awesome answer, you destroyed that racist bitch lol

  • what the fuck is racist about that?

  • @nicholasbhicks I'm annoyed when I find comments like this. When blues first propagated out of the deep south in the states no white man had the time for it, let alone was it even considered an art form. I wouldn't be surprised if in sixty years time middle-aged white men started re-discovering old hip-hop records. You can't be annoyed with progression and change, music is relative to the time. Yes I am a massive blues fan but I think it's more important to be a fan of music in general!

  • @nicholasbhicks white guys used to call the blues garbage too, maybe in 20 years someone will be sayin "how black people move from rap to this new shit", you got to understand that black people are always movin and makin new music some we like some we dont, i dont enjoy rap very much but i respect the fact that they are always innovating thanks to that we have the blues, jazz, rock etc...

  • @diegocostarica21 my great grandpa was taught how to play the guitar by a blues player. my grandpa was a coal miner starting when he was only 12 and there was a man that played blues and folk at the company store and he taught him how to play this was way back over 80 years ago when most whites would have hated on this music so i guess hes were i get my taste for this kinda music

  • @nicholasbhicks one word- EMINEM

  • @gee8908 boy are you ignorant

  • @gee8908 Eminem is white (!)

  • @xBreakThisShitDowNx That was his point bro lol

  • @IpCrackle I'm fooling around man.. I'm saying it ironically..

  • @nicholasbhicks You're a racist idiot, congratulations.

  • @nicholasbhicks actually "black folks" went from this to Rock n Roll Rhyhm & blues(R&B) soul motown funk rap came outta funk music but rap was truly born outta poverty/lack of musical resorces and a bunch of outa date disco beat machines
  • @BigKingBudxxShowCase John Lee Hooker was the grandfather of rap.

  • @theshowmecanuck

    i thought it was rev gary davis?

  • @theshowmecanuck

    i thought it was the rev gary davis

  • @BigKingBudxxShowCase That'll work too!

  • I love you Lightnin' Hopkins! R.I.P

  • Damn Texas Rules!

  • いぶし銀。great!!!!!

  • 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

  • Master piece here.

  • What tuning is this?? Open G?

  • @Pukkpukkpukk Standart tunning.

  • @peonwarrior Standard tuning half step up, he's playing in F

  • @PeccJeden I think he's in F# actually. Probably tuned up for volume, this when it was a common practice prior to Lightnin's time..

  • Give thanks for posting, a joy of SOuthern Comfort....

  • beautiful!

  • Lighntin was the Natural, music just flowing with endless cool ideas. Here he is tuned up a whole step so capo on the 2nd if you want to play along using these chords. I posted a lesson on this tune using licks I learned from Phil Boroff who knew Lighntin.

  • hes amazing!!!!!!!!

  • simply awesome.....

  • Sam Lightnin Hopkins the one and only.

  • I'd like to see this guy do audition for Idols. Just like that.

  • Here is your rock and roll. Right there.

  • @dadgadable That's why its called blues. ? Haha. Correction. "Here is your blues. Right there."

  • @NateHail lol, don't you here the Rock 'n Roll? It's right there, on accoustic. Just play this in distortion and you got ac/dc!

  • @dadgadable Haha. AC/DC is blues inspired. lol. I'm not saying anything bad, I know that blues lead to rock'n'roll, but you don't call grape a raisin while it is still a grape.

  • @NateHail Ofcourse. What I was saying was here is your rock 'n roll ....fundaments. Got it? I'm not stupid.

  • @NateHail the point is. This song is so close to how rock n roll and hard rock sounds today. Its all there, in one tiny song. A brilliant piece this is.

  • cardigan

    

  • Lightnin is my all time favourite blues player, none feels the blues as he does. None.

  • @taurtue no matter how much music i listen to, discover and rediscover, from lil wayne and pantera to soggy bottom boys and led zeppelin, I always come back to lightnin. i f*ckin love this guy!

  • @MrJordanisking u said it right. music is music whereever u come from.  and this is awesome

  • @MrJordanisking Thats because hes the real deal....and you know good music...

  • Loss at words

  • How can ANYBODY 'dislike' this ??

  • If you like delta blues, check out Rat Stomp :)

    youtube.com/user/ratstompmusic­

  • This made my day!

  • Sharp

  • i cant understand the 2nd verse 00:58-1:10 and in the 3rd verse1:53-1:59. I've looked up lyrics for this song but they don't match at all with what i'm hearing. Any one knows whats up let me know love this song.

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  • @xXGatlinKillerXx

    he's saying

    'I believe your man done gone

    He left the county farm he had his shackles on now baby please don't go.'

    and ' Now don't you call my name, you got me way down here wearing a ball and chain now baby please don't go'

  • I wanna go back in time and just hang out with him, haha.

  • This is brilliant...do you know what year this was?

  • Lightnin Hopkins: The first hipster.

  • @jonahtran1 what the fuck?

  • @jonahtran1 no.

  • @fuzzydizzle Ha. Someone had to have though of it. I'm kidding of course. Hipsters suck.

  • If you like delta blues, check out Rat Stomp :)

    youtube.com/user/ratstompmusic

  • hey everybody come check out the lightnin hopkins stuff i just posted. theres only 3 videos but i couldent find 2 of the songs anywhere on youtube and the other one i found in bad quality

  • My dream would in life would have been to immerse myself with the old black blues players of old to absorb as much feel, soul and rhythm I could. I watched 10 Days Out with KWS and thought how fortunate he was to have had the opportunity considering a year later 4 or 5 of those artists died after the DVD was made. Now I try to get to as many blues shows to catch those artists before they are called on.

  • that is called talent!

  • 30 people wanted her to go

  • sexy. ^ ^

  • cool smart guy playin' real good guitar

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