Soul Blues (album)

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Soul Blues
Soul Blues.jpg
Studio album by
Lightnin' Hopkins
Released1965
RecordedMay 4 & 5, 1964
Studio Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Genre Blues
Length40:56
Label Prestige
Producer Ozzie Cadena
Lightnin' Hopkins chronology
Down Home Blues
(1964)		Soul Blues
(1965)		 Lightning Hopkins with His Brothers Joel and John Henry / with Barbara Dane
(1966)

Soul Blues is an album by the blues musician Lightnin' Hopkins, recorded in 1963 and released on the Bluesville label. [1] [2] [3]

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [5]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [6]

The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings wrote: "Soul Blues has a few distinctive pieces like 'I'm Going to Build Me a Heaven of My Own' – not out of atheistic contrariness but in order to give 'lovin' women a happy home'. 'I'm a Crawling Black Snake' which has little in common with Blind Lemon Jefferson's song, is framed by oddly impressionistic guitar". [5] AllMusic reviewer Roundup Newsletter stated: "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". [4]

Track listing

All compositions by Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins except where noted

  1. "I'm Going to Build Me a Heaven of My Own" – 5:56
  2. "My Babe" (Willie Dixon) – 3:20
  3. "Too Many Drivers" – 3:30
  4. "I'm a Crawling Black Snake" – 4:50
  5. "Rocky Mountain Blues" – 3:50
  6. "I Mean Goodbye" – 3:00
  7. "The Howling Wolf" – 3:50
  8. "Black Ghost Blues" – 3:30
  9. "Darling, Do You Remember Me?" – 3:40
  10. "Lonesome Graveyard" – 5:30

Personnel

Performance

Production

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References

  1. ↑ Jazzdisco: Prestige Records Catalog: 7300 series accessed November 8, 2018
  2. ↑ Both Sides Now: Discography Preview for the Prestige label accessed November 8, 2018
  3. ↑ Wirz' American Music: Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins discography accessed November 8, 2018
  4. 1 2 Newsletter, Roundup. Lightnin' Hopkins: Soul Blues – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved November 6, 2018.
  5. 1 2 Russell, Tony; Smith, Chris (2006). The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings. London: Penguin. p. 280. ISBN   978-0-140-51384-4.
  6. ↑ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 328.
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