Late 1940’s Texas blues, amplified with the dirty meanness this kind of early 20th century country-blues always deserved, Lightnin’ Hopkins‘ The Complete Aladdin Recordings pile drives 43 sides directly through your ears and into your soul. Hopkins combines the simplicity of lyric and complexity of finger-work possessed by bluesmen before him to produce an electrified studio sound previously unavailable to similar artists in decades past. Critical country-blues from a critical country-bluesman.
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