Lightnin' Hopkins - Cotton Field Blues

[@BrianCarnevaleB26]

Hopkins, born in 1912 died of esophageal cancer in Houston on January 30, 1982, at the age of 69. His obituary in the New York Times described him as "one of the great country blues singers and perhaps the greatest single influence on rock guitar players."

[@farhanismail9760]

69.... nice

[@odietamo9376]

Thank you for those facts.

[@jairsantos5554]

Blues é um estilo de música que me emociona muito gosto dos violões das vozes da qualidade musical alem de fazer parte da cultura americana assim como o nosso samba veio da África e faz parte da nossa cultura grande abraço DEUS vos abençoe meus irmãos

[@clarkgrinde131]

Lightnin' was the MAN!

[@bedmanokc]

my daddy was a sack shaker... great words of the time that aren't heard today.

[@Tranmere59]

...But he kept his eyes straight down the road. Honest man.

[@sammyD62]

​​@@Tranmere59well being that a sack-shaker is someone who picks up the cotton that fell from others' sacks instead of picking his own, and he then took three money to lose it gambling, idk how honest of a man he could've been.

[@meetontheledge1380]

''My Daddy was the roughest man in the world'.'

[@williampfenninger7874]

Great blues in raw form

[@coravisser727]

brilliant touch my whole soul and heart.

[@charlesdavenport6094]

the essence of the blues; required listening...should be taught in HS music class?

[@garygivens4733]

Good drummer

[@irvinglevere1932]

Hopkins is comparàble to Charlie Parker in that he is in his own world

[@altdelet3778]

Hes talking about sharecropping

[@lindagreaney5136]

Yes

[@dewaynewhite2928]

I don't weigh but 90 pounds

[@goodtimefolkrock]

1:03 im offended ......whats color got to do with it? Ha ha .....i loves me some lightin

[@altdelet3778]

*Because its true*

[@charlesdavenport6094]

the sharecropping system, and Jim Crow was the Confederacy's method to continue black servitude, despite having lost the Civil War....