Lightnin's Hideaway

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In this second DVD lesson devoted to the guitar playing of Lightnin' Hopkins, Ernie Hawkins dives into Lightnin's early catalogue from the Aladdin and Gold Star record labels. There was an amazing variety to Lightnin's early work. Listening to his early recordings we hear an artist at his prime. He effortlessly employing widely different rhythms, keys and tunings. The deeper we listen to these songs, the deeper our insight into what a master of Texas blues Lightnin' Hopkins really was.
In this 186 minute double DVD set, Ernie Hawkins covers songs in unusual keys such as: drop D(Sugar Mama), in drop D but played in the key of A (Santa Fe Blues), in G (Bad Luck and Trouble), as well as in the usual blues in A, Come Back Baby and the country gospel Needed Time in the key of E. As a bonus, Ernie teaches his version of Lightnin's Hideway, the Freddy King tune coming back home to Lightnin'. This KZbin clip presents part of this segment.
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[@pelumaad331]

Ernie Hawkins, #1 disciple of Grandmaster Rev Gary Davis and keeper of the country blues flame.....RESPECT!!!!

[@JoinTheTechnicians]

I respect the vibe, but at the same time his timing on the intro is enough to break the spark... Lemme say tho that I loved this video learning experience no matter the timing.

[@JoinTheTechnicians]

BTW The tutorial gets better than the intro as the vid progresses. Thanks for posting!

[@rhapsody5876]

Awesome ! Lightning paved the streets in gold..Freddie King drove his 335 a hundred miles an hour across them ..and Ernies the man who can show how it's done ...! peace out ..

[@Philo68]

I’m not going to lie... this guy knows his way around a guitar!

[@mikec3777]

Nice change from the "Beano" version by ED although I love that,

[@jkuebler89]

Guitar workshop always puts out some of the funnest lessons!

[@1mo4dro]

This will always be a Freddie King instrumental 4me> but I think he was the first to add the P.G. theme and I so dig the PETER GUNN riff... you got to love the "secret agent" jam lm so old... I used to get a Peter Gunn hair cut when I was a kid~

[@jubayerhsiddiqui8516]

This is absolutely marvellous! Shame that it popped out on my suggestion 7 year later

[@flylippfantom8425]

Taught him everything I know 😅😅😅😅 Amazing

[@SuperOlds88]

Po Lightnin changes when Lightnin wants to change.

[@marycrowther8813]

We need to honor our greatest and not let others just continue y take our culture for us.when are we going to learn this? what's it going to take for us to wake up to see that our culture by othi is being stolen from us.

[@stevel.6245]

@@marycrowther8813 Say whaaat?

[@joe4nature1]

What a great lesson!@ I'd love to learn more. It's been 30 + years since I heard Lightning Sam Hopkins.

[@tramboithao]

Great stuff love all your vids

[@sowelu9247]

Just amazing. Great job!!!

[@andrewethanhirsch7968]

Thanks Ernie - and thank you Stefan - another great song and lesson

[@xanther97]

Eric Clapton said Hopkins was a big influence on him. Check out Les Blanc's The Blues According to Lightnin Hopkins

[@keithwhatley5094]

Outstanding!

[@bradallen4161]

That's terrific - if I can learn about half of the intro, I'll consider it a success, thank you.

[@nicolen.9642]

I love Lightnin' Hopkins...I'm trying to learn with the blues scales. Thanks for sharing the blues.

[@karintaarif]

this video inspiring me to buy a thumb pick

[@danholland7666]

Fun track to play or jam along with, get loose and enjoy.

[@SandroMassarani]

Amazing! Great player and teacher.

[@bluesque9704]

Freddie king! loved it sir.

[@matthewwheeler6311]

Simply incredible! Great job Mr. Hawkins. Keep putting out more of these lessons. I'd love to see one breaking down some real basics just to get the hands working like Lightnin'.

[@stevepercival4774]

Smooth as

[@flylippfantom8425]

I have never seen anyone have the thumb pick on the thumb so far up past the knockle

[@MrJackchap]

Thanks,this is some good stuff right there,oh lord!!

[@664804]

LOVE IT

[@RubberGooseNeck]

yeah!

[@garthirving1056]

I've been fiddling with this myself..Great to see this must check it out..Made famous by Eric Clapton on the "Beano"..I started to think can it put together as a fingerstyle guitar work..Great work Ernie..

[@etiennelebien5670]

merci pour ce superbe tuto et la tablature ( de la france )

[@rayoll]

hey Hideaway....Lightnin n Freddie King1

[@davidsmart8594]

I like your teaching style very much...you've been a great help. Thanks. (Nope...still can't play it in time, but you've been a great help...)

[@ashershetrit8721]

Woooo ,Great!

[@charlywhitelemon3137]

Gracias

[@charlespeterson3798]

If you can pay your dues and learn every permutation of 8, 12, 16, 24 bar blues and play them right. Then you can make your own rules. Until then, you play by the rules. Genius is a poor example to follow. People think freedom is freedom from structure. Ernie just said timing is everything, just as I was writing this. I hear professional classical musicians that never learned to count. Seriously. World gone to Hell in a handbasket.

[@nnobster]

06:19 "It's just your basic Lighting 5,7 run". Oh, if only it were that easy!

[@samoryTure]

He talked about Lightnin's 5-7 a lot in his " The Guitar of Lightnin' Hopkins " DVD. if that helps.

[@mikemoodie]

Jeff Healey also does an awesome version

[@salsageordie]

Play this and you will never starve !

[@llamov]

Why is it that no one sounds like Lightnin Hopkins except Lightnin Hopkins? I've been trying to play his licks for 40 years, but I still sound like me. Ernie Hawkins sounds like Ernie Hawkins. It's a mystery.

[@ZmudaVision]

You have to learn the song in your heart, then be lightnin! Feel, Don't play.

[@llamov]

Bob ZmudaVision Sounding like Lightnin' is something I'll never do. Nor do I want to. It's hard enough sounding like me. He is a joy, though. Been enjoying his music since I was 19 years old. I'm closing in on 70 now.

[@ZmudaVision]

llamov "I've been trying to play his licks for 40 years" This was what gauged my response ;) Nearly 70 hu! Holds no weight with me Sir! Hahaha Only joking! That's awesome, I bet you could teach me a thing or two hahaha. I love Hopkins he is my main inspiration( Had to wait till I was 32 before I found him though) I am constantly trying to emulate and envelope his style and make it my own....Good luck and Take care :)

[@mynameisfinity240]

@@ZmudaVision Damn right.

[@tomcrosby6332]

2:29 sounds like Henry Mancini's "peter Gunn"

[@jamespoppitz2256]

Does that guy just look like Tbone Burnett or is that just Tbone teaching guitar?

[@81enri]

i thought it was hide-away by Freddy King

[@rodneycampbell3825]

It is

[@Grindhouse116]

You should credit the guy who wrote it...Irving Spencer, the guy who stole it..Hounddog Taylor and the guy who made that version popular, using a Jimmy McCracken lick..Freddie King and a little bit of Peter GunnTheme most of which pre-dated old Lighnin' by a few years.

[@bargeyl]

Not easy for me, but thank you

[@melvinwren]

wait does lightnin hopkins play the peter gunn riff?

[@pelumaad331]

***** ....did L A studio musicians play the Lightnin' riff?

[@melvinwren]

prolly. thats what i was tryna ask thank you.

[@melvinwren]

Pelu Maad answering my question with a question.. do you not know the answer to the question i was wanting to know? even if i said it wrong.. or are you just tryna learn me somethin that i already know....

[@pelumaad331]

***** ...LOL.....Anyone who uses Blind Willie Johnson for an icon is immediately on my good side. I don't know the answer for sure, but I have no problem assuming that some beach bum guitar player who loved Lightnin' stuck the riff in the theme. But, then again....maybe Lightnin' liked the TV show and lifted the lick. The 50s were so long ago we'll probably never know.

[@davidsmart8594]

+Pelu Maad You say that, but BBC Radio 2 interviewed a professor of Musicology from a University in California today, trying to find out the answer to the question "...who put the 'bop' in the 'Bopshuwadoowop'?..." (yes, really!). Turns out it was either a very small, local band that started it and also a DJ of the times started calling the style 'Doowop' around that time. There's hope yet. I just imagine Mr. Hawkins peering over his glasses daring anyone to suggest it isn't his 'line'...

[@girliedog]

9.15

[@brandoferg6460]

You guys need to fix your thumbs nails, great musicians but terrible thumbnails they’ll get lost in the list.

[@nelsonhibbert5267]

He needs to sort his fingernails out too. I know he plays finger style, but he's only one nocturnal scrotum scratching away from opening a main blood vessel.

[@Braintheft101]

Simple math. Lightnin Hopkins is Lightnin Hopkins 100% of the time. Ernie Hawkins may play Lightnin's style 1% of the time, so with each playing an ave. of 100 hours a day, Lightnin plays Lightnin 100 x more than Ernie plays Lightnin on an ave day. And visa versa. Ernie Hawkins is an amazing musician who has mastered (and shares) many, many styles, Easy bet that Ernie Hawkins plays Ernie Hawkins better than Lightnin plays Ernie Hawkins, Ernie Hawkins is a good as they come.

[@ZmudaVision]

Lol who would have guessed :)

[@pelumaad331]

+Elder Lee Man ......Hawkins is a "keeper of the flame". He learned from masters and passes it on.

[@Brembelia]

Ooooo. This is so yummy!!! :D

[@12Radius]

No rules

[@meski14]

lots of licks

[@murattaner7384]

Proof that Martin is not a Blues Guitar

[@646627jd]

I know beginners that play better than that.

[@j.miguel6193]

Destroyed the guitar lol