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Lightnin' Strikes (Verve Folkways album)

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Lightnin' Strikes
Studio album by
Released1966
RecordedOctober 4 & 5, 1965
StudioLos Angeles, CA
GenreBlues
Length38:42
LabelVerve Folkways
FVS 9022
ProducerDavid Hubert
Lightnin' Hopkins chronology
Live at Newport
(2002)
Lightnin' Strikes
(1966)
Something Blue
(1967)

Lightnin' Strikes (reissued as Nothin' But the Blues) is an album by blues musician Lightnin' Hopkins recorded in Los Angeles in 1965 and released on the Vee-Jay label.[1][2][3]

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AllMusic[4]

Cub Koda, writing for AllMusic, described a later compilation featuring the entire album as an "interesting collection" and opined, "For a hodgepodge of leftovers, there's a lot of great Lightnin' on here."[4]

Track listing

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All compositions by Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins

  1. "Mojo Hand" – 3:13
  2. "Little Wail" – 2:50
  3. "Cotton" – 5:57
  4. "Take Me Back" – 2:55
  5. "Nothin' But the Blues" – 5:15
  6. "Hurricane Betsy" – 5:45
  7. "Guitar Lightnin'" – 4:12
  8. "Woke Up This Morning" – 4:20
  9. "Shake Yourself" – 4:15

Personnel

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Performance

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References

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