Lightnin' Hopkins - Hello Central: The Best of Lightnin' Hopkins

Before blues punters react with understandable suspicion regarding this Sony Legacy best-of -- especially since Lightnin' Hopkins never recorded for Columbia or any of its subsidiaries -- they should take a long gander at the sleeve notes. The 20 sides collected here, all recorded in either 1950 or 1951, were first issued as juke singles for Bob Shad's Sittin' In With label and its Jax subsidiary, and later compiled on albums issued by Mainstream with titles like Sittin' In With, Dirty Blues, and so on. Read More