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| - Sam John Hopkins (March 15, 1912 – January 30, 1982), better known as Lightnin’ Hopkins, was an American country blues singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional pianist, from Houston, Texas. Rolling Stone magazine included Hopkins at number 71 on their list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. Musicologist Robert "Mack" McCormick opined that Hopkins "is the embodiment of the jazz-and-poetry spirit, representing its ancient form in the single creator whose words and music are one act".
- Sam John Hopkins (March 15, 1912 – January 30, 1982[1]), better known as Lightnin’ Hopkins, was an Americancountry blues singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional pianist, from Houston, Texas. Rolling Stonemagazine included Hopkins at number 71 on their list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.[2] Musicologist Robert "Mack" McCormick opined that Hopkins "is the embodiment of the jazz-and-poetry spirit, representing its ancient form in the single creator whose words and music are one act".[3]
- Lightnin' Hopkins, born Sam John Hopkins, was an American country blues singer, songwriter, guitarist, and occasional pianist, from Centerville, Texas. Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 71 on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. Hopkins died of esophageal cancer in Houston on January 30, 1982, at the age of 69. His obituary in the New York Times described him as "one of the great country blues singers and perhaps the greatest single influence on rock guitar players."
- Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins (1912-1982) was a blues singer, songwriter and guitarist from Houston, Texas. His long career began in the country blues era; in his youtth he worked as an accompanist to the legendary Blind Lemon Jefferson, as well as with another noted singer, Texas Alexander. Like a number of other blues singers, he also spent time in prison, but in the post-World War Two period, when urban blues was popular with black audiences, he acheived fame with a succession of R&B hits. His music still retained a rural flavour, and he had the country bluesman's ability to be a self-sufficient solo performer, improvising on guitar and composing many new songs based on old blues structures. Because of this, it was difficult to pair him with younger, white rock groups, although he did record
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| - Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins (1912-1982) was a blues singer, songwriter and guitarist from Houston, Texas. His long career began in the country blues era; in his youtth he worked as an accompanist to the legendary Blind Lemon Jefferson, as well as with another noted singer, Texas Alexander. Like a number of other blues singers, he also spent time in prison, but in the post-World War Two period, when urban blues was popular with black audiences, he acheived fame with a succession of R&B hits. His music still retained a rural flavour, and he had the country bluesman's ability to be a self-sufficient solo performer, improvising on guitar and composing many new songs based on old blues structures. Because of this, it was difficult to pair him with younger, white rock groups, although he did record an album wiith members of the Texas psychedelic band The !3th Floor Elevators. But long before that, he had been acclaimed by the predominantly white public of the 1960s folk and blues revival, increasing his renown beyond the Houston area where he was already a local star. He continued to record prolifically (he made more albums than any other blues artist) and toured both in the USA and overseas, visiting Europe and Japan in the late 1970s. He was described as "Houston's poet-in-residence", was the subject of three documentary films and at least one biography and is commemorated by a statue in Crockett, Texas,
- Sam John Hopkins (March 15, 1912 – January 30, 1982), better known as Lightnin’ Hopkins, was an American country blues singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional pianist, from Houston, Texas. Rolling Stone magazine included Hopkins at number 71 on their list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. Musicologist Robert "Mack" McCormick opined that Hopkins "is the embodiment of the jazz-and-poetry spirit, representing its ancient form in the single creator whose words and music are one act".
- Sam John Hopkins (March 15, 1912 – January 30, 1982[1]), better known as Lightnin’ Hopkins, was an Americancountry blues singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional pianist, from Houston, Texas. Rolling Stonemagazine included Hopkins at number 71 on their list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.[2] Musicologist Robert "Mack" McCormick opined that Hopkins "is the embodiment of the jazz-and-poetry spirit, representing its ancient form in the single creator whose words and music are one act".[3]
- Lightnin' Hopkins, born Sam John Hopkins, was an American country blues singer, songwriter, guitarist, and occasional pianist, from Centerville, Texas. Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 71 on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. By the time of his death in 1982, Hopkins was likely the most recorded blues artist in history. Born in 1912 to a poor sharecropping family in Texas, Hopkins left home when he was only eight years old with a guitar his brother had given him. He made his living however he could, sticking to the open road, playing the blues, and taking odd jobs when money was short. Hopkins didn’t begin recording until 1946, when he was dubbed "Lightnin'" during his first session, and he soon joined Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker on the national R & B charts. But by the time he was rediscovered 1959, his popularity had begun to wane. A second career emerged as Lightnin’ was pitched to white audiences, not black ones, and he became immensely successful, singing about his country roots and injustices that informed the civil rights era with a searing emotive power. Hopkins died of esophageal cancer in Houston on January 30, 1982, at the age of 69. His obituary in the New York Times described him as "one of the great country blues singers and perhaps the greatest single influence on rock guitar players."
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