I’ve been listening to a lot of blues lately… and spent some time today getting deep into Lightnin’ Hopkins’ music.
You just got to love his style. Full of rhythm and swing, but he decides when to change… 12 -bar blues for Lightnin’ never neccessarily has 12 bars… it has as many as he likes, he’ll change when he is god damn ready it seems!
You need look no further than this video to see just how bad ass this guy was. Lightnin’ could sing as well as he could play, and wrote some seriously good blues tunes in his time.
Enjoy this tune “Mojo Hand” … but there are plenty of good collections of his music out there.. any half decent music store should be able to provide what you are looking for… if they can’t you should be shoping somewhere else!