Lightnin’ Hopkins – Blues In My Bottle Houston-based smokey-voiced Sam “Lightnin’” Hopkins (1912-1982) collected 11 solo songs recorded at ACA (Gold Star Studios) in Houston, TX in 1961 for Blues In My Bottle (Dropped April 3/Craft/Concord/Prestige Bluesville/39:27) produced by Kenneth S. Goldstein & Mack McCormick. It features Hopkins’ distinctive fingerstyle guitar & country blues, free […]
Music & Film Reviews: Southside Johnny ‘Live at Rockpalast,’ plus Lucinda Williams, Lightnin’ Hopkins, and Emily Remler Southside Johnny came up through the same Asbury Park, New Jersey–area bars and clubs as Bruce Springsteen, with whom he has often shared stages. He also attended school with the E Street Band’s Garry Tallent and Vini Lopez; […]
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A 3-CD Set Features Country Rock Pioneer Steve Young Singer, songwriter, and guitarist Steve Young, who died in 2016, had a long and notable but mostly under-the-radar career. He never had a pop hit and dented the country charts only once, with a 1976 album called Renegade Picker, which reached No. 48. He is remembered […]
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