| Goin' Away | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 1963 | |||
| Recorded | June 4, 1963 | |||
| Studio | Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ | |||
| Genre | Blues | |||
| Length | 36:24 | |||
| Label | Bluesville BVLP 1073 | |||
| Producer | Ozzie Cadena | |||
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Goin' Away is an album by the blues musician Lightnin' Hopkins, recorded in 1963 and released on the Bluesville label. [1] [2] [3]
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [4] |
| The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings | [5] |
The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings wrote: "The high points of this session are the title track, suffused with rural quiet, and 'Business You're Doin' ', an old rag song similar to 'Take Me Back' which Lightnin' plays as if he's been listening to John Hurt ... Gaskin and Lovelle show up some of the rhythm sections Lightnin' used in later years: though their touch is light, they are propulsive rather than responsive and never allow the music to drag". [5] AllMusic reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine stated: "For the 1963 album Goin' Away, Lightnin' Hopkins was backed by a spare rhythm section who managed to follow his ramshackle, instinctual sense of rhythm quite dexterously, giving Hopkins' skeletal guitar playing some muscle. Still, the spotlight remains Hopkins, who is in fine form here. There are no real classics here, but everything is solid". [4]
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