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Lightnin' Hopkins

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Aliases
Lightening Hopkins
"Lightnin'" Hopkins
Lightnin Hopkins
Lightnin' Hopkins and His Guitar
Lightning Hopkins
Real name
Sam John Hopkins
Born
March 15, 1912
Died
January 30, 1982
Country
United States
IPI
00014378888 11 works
00014379395 18 works
Affiliation
BMI
Comments
Country blues singer, songwriter and guitarist
Family
Milton Hopkins cousin
Albert Collins [US-TX] Cousin
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Covers by Lightnin' Hopkins

Title Performer Release date Originally by
1962 State Street Boys
1949 Joe Williams' Washboard Blues Singers
September 1952 Lightning Hopkins
Covered by David Honeyboy Edwards
July 1953 Little Son Joe
1962 Joe Pullum
1960 Sonny Boy Williamson [US1]
1962 Prince Albert Hunt's Texas Ramblers
1962 Robert Petway
1962 Walter Davis
1960 Lead Belly
1962 (unknown)
1962 Sonny Boy Williamson [US1]
1947 Big Bill
Covered by (8 artists)
In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down) Lightnin' Hopkins 1964 Unverified
1960 Henry Whitter
1963 William Mc Coy
1961 Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup
1963 Florida Normal Industrial Institute Quartet, Little Walter and His Jukes
1959 Fisk University Male Quartette
1952 (unknown), Blind Lemon Jefferson
March 1948 Tampa Red
1969 Curtis Jones, Li'l Son Jackson
1947 Leroy's Buddy with Guitar and Piano Accompaniment by Honey Hill
March 1958 Ma Rainey - Acc. by Her Georgia Jazz Band
November 1948 Sonny Boy Williamson [US1]
1969 Thelma La Vizzo
1969 Ray Charles
1962 "Stick" McGhee and His Buddy