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Lightnin' Hopkins - Soul Blues

Track listing:
  1. I'm Going To Build Me A Heaven Of My Own 5:56
  2. My Babe 3:20
  3. Too Many Drivers 3:29
  4. I'm A Crawling Black Snake 4:48
  5. Rocky Mountain Blues 3:51
  6. I Mean Goodbye 3:00
  7. The Howling Wolf 3:52
  8. Black Ghost Blues 3:30
  9. Darling, Do You Remember Me? 3:39
  10. Lonesome Graveyard 5:28
  11. Full Cd In Ape With Cue 41:21

Notes

May 4, 1964 , May 5, 1964

A true poet of the blues, Lightnin' Hopkins was a master of tall, tongue-in-cheek tales, often made up on the spot in the recording studio. The first song on this album, "I'm Going to Build Me a Heaven of My Own," adescribes an encounter with a bearded man claiming to be Jesus Christ. Hopkins also puts his personal stamp on Willie Dixon's "My Babe" and Smokey Hogg's "Too Many Drivers," among others.