Who's all in the audience? The Puritan Society?

Music, in my opinion, is a personal preference and so opinions and criticism is just that - personal. People love to make comparisons. Sounds like this, sounds like that, not as good as this, etc. I like Lightnin Hopkins a lot. I actually love me some Lightnin Hopkins. He sounds exactly like Lightnin Hopkins and nobody else. He’s among a handful of musicians that I consider the real deal.

Magnificent

Esto no lo habia visto. Muy bueno.

I like the soundhole pickup running into the amplifier that almost looks like a box-fan. Primitive by today's standards, but just goes to show that you don't need ten different effects on a pedalboard to make great music.

He plays with his whole body, including his face. He puts everything he’s got into every note. First time I’ve heard or seen him play, although I’ve to others sing his songs for years.

He plays with his whole body, including his face. He puts everything he’s got into every note. First time I’ve heard or seen him play, although I’ve to others sing his songs for years.

Everyone has there picks and it depends on the era.

The lightnin strikes again !

Lord lord

Thank you to all of you who spoke about this very special man that I get the privilege to call Daddy. He was a superb musician and a true man in the love of his family. As I read your comments, I smiled, and I cried thanking you for honoring my special memories of my Daddy, T-Bone Walker.!!! God bless each of you and thank you again for recognizing his genius!!!

San would go into a record company, sign a contract for a block of songs. The next day or week he would go to another company and sign a contract for another set of songs and he'd just keep cranking them out. He did this because he was trying to make the most money and he knew full well that he was going to be ripped off and this was his way of protecting himself from being ripped off. He was able to play a small coffeehouse in California and make good money because the people knew he was a true great American artist. Then he would be back in his neighborhood playing to his friends and family. People used to put him down and I call those people blind idiots. I always listened to his Arholie label records. They are treasures of this country. I get emotional over Sam's work. The fact is that he taught me how to play his style and just to get that from his records... wow! I was sad that I couldn't get to see him. I was 16 when he died and it felt like my Grandfather died. All because of his records, his music, because of the way he was. I just loved him so much and I cried when he died. I didn't have any way to get information about him back then because the records had good liner notes but that was all I had to go on. To this day when I hear Sam Hopkins, I just stop everything and listen. Please read the books about him. Get to know the man Lightnin' Sam Hopkins.

I dated his daughter and we kissed!!

yes indeed, this man can play the blues....thank you Mr. Lightnin Hopkins.

Super

Eric Satie had those empty spaces.

This its the blues okay.thanks Mr,Hopkin

Une voie qui te prend aux tripes le blues est bien la ❤😂😢

This is guitar art at it's best

People. both subscribers and channel owner(s), Read this... You are badasses, and like me, wondering, roaming, living, and, sometimes busting our asses out, to keep free from Music Inc., at least me, for sure. And one of the many reasons for Us, doods, to be like free birds, legit people, may be in the subtle detail, about mental faculties (God´s ultimate gifts, no doubt). We are different. At the most, younger than 35 years old, ( I´m 40), are really hard to let been touched by the true blues man... They just don´t get it... they get bored, man, can you belive it? When I was at the age of 8, my beloved mom bought me a music magazine, and the main subject was about the blues genre and blues legends, with a bonus CD with 11 songs featuring some old world tunes by the claimed to be, "Blues Legends". I still have this cd, and still feel it man, deep in me, I feel it, I naturally understand it, and so, is high valued for myself. When I finally get to play it decently in my guitar, I could aprecciate it even more. Nowadays, youger people (not generally, but IT IS hard to find one, able to feel and enjoy it) can not feel the shining boldness and the solidity that the blues carries. Their minds, or have been, by "something", not only blocked, but kept locked, and denied to feel it or aknowledge it properlly, therefore, ends been rejected, forgotten. The TRUTH is that is naturally compatible with TRUTH people. Honestly and respectly, I will keep it, playing and listening, admiring and inspired, by such gift that, surely will and, still works on me. Today, I hope that not only US, but whoever have the luck, may give, even if looks nothing, a strong and firm step, straight ahead to "the blues touch". Let it help you on this shitty life they insist on us to volunteering cave and be slaved. Try to feel, then these links between the real blues played and the emotions that can make us feel, will help educate on refining and reconsider whenever the need calls it to be done for the truth inside you people. Stay fine, and, YES, you can handle it, if born under a bad sign!

Saddest part of America is that "white america" called Black Bluesmen art. "The Devils music" until a whiteman could play it. Then they called him "the King". Or white kids coming from England to this day are worth hundreds of millions. I. E. Rolling Stones. All they did was copy more Black music. Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, and Howling Wolf. TOTAL ROBBERY

Enquanto isso, Flamengo precisando de Bruno Henrique.

Holy cow he makes that guitar sing like crazy

Pioneer

Guy was the epitomy of cool 👌

Ich lese gerade the philosophy of modern song Bob Dylan und habe mit den Beatles 1965 angefangen.

👏👏👏👏

Wow that was some great playing and singing! In tune! :)

I didn't catch the name of the song at the beginning. Does anyone on here know?

😈🔱👿.. This Cat is cool with a Capital C.. From the gold teeth to the dark glasses ... The devil got a bargan on this SOUL 😈🔱👿

What a gem!

Thank you u tube...DOES anyone have a live clip of ELMORE JAMES?

The beginning of rock and roll.

Sorry. Not that impressed

So good. One of my all time favorites.

A virtuoso performance on that lovely guitar

Willie Dixon and T-Bone on the stage at the same. With Willie singing, what more could you ask for

He played flawless. You can tell he was a perfectionist. Putting the swing in plus the way he held his guitar and could change up like it was nothing. Way ahead of his time. The way he dressed, his band , everything first class. I'm 71 and started looking on my rock and roll albums in the 60s at who wrote the song. Then I'd go to the record store and buy the original black blues men. Vinyl was so cheap I ended up with over 500 and growing up in New Orleans there were plenty record outlets. Cool old stores I can still remember, in fact I can remember the smell of those old buildings combined with the smell of the vinyl covers. I was buying 45s at 13, then I went nuts. I saw a TV as a child but once I got into my teens, I seldom look at television because I was always playing music. It made it easy for me to throw my TV away over 15 years ago.

me gusta el blues creo es un género importante y hermoso, no conozco mucho, tantos musicos extraordinarios como este guitarrista, yo conoci su musica por la canción de chuck berry, me preguntaba si era de el y ahi descubri a quien para mí es uno de los mejores musicos de la historia

Mr. Willis is a fantastic bluesman. Thanks for sharing the enlightenment.

Incredible blues guitar player! Mind blowing

Straight from Tejas, just like Johnny Winter, Stevie Ray, Steve Miller and on and on. Texas raised some damn good guitar pickers!

This is the Blues !

Nothing but the blues! 💙 🎶🎵

Thank you for the upload.

Que afinación usaba?

Singlehandedly created Page, Beck, Eric, Hendrix, Pete, and KEITH.....

I learned of him young from my Dad and uncles listening and drinking sessions. I got hooked. I had more than they did eventually I bought so much. But they had vinyl

Seriously I could see how this could be considered primitive but it’s nothing to make a big deal over it’s kinda bad. We as white folk for some reason gush over black folk, even when they’re not anything to gush over… it’s like sometimes I think we look at them like wasn’t that great there goes a primitive animal, playing guitar and singing almost like a human…. Now I didn’t mean that in a disrespect., but that could be the only answer to why white folk make a big deal over performances like this from Black folk…

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