Lightnin' Hopkins

**Lightnin' Hopkins**, wiere namme **Sam John Hopkins** (Centerville, Teksas, 15 maart 1912 - Houston (Teksas), 30 jannewaris 1982), wie in Amerikaansk country bluessjonger, songwriter, komponist en gitarist út Houston yn Teksas. 'Lightnin' Hopkins (*Poor Lightnin*, sa't er him sels graach neamde), wie in grut fernijer fan de Teksasblues. Hy wurdt teffens beskôge as ien fan de pioniers fan de elektryske gitaar, in ynstrumint dat er lykas de akûstyske gitaar op in tige eigen wize bespile. Hopkins wie in echte hiemhûn en kaam net folle bûten Houston, dochs binne syn platen no yn de hiel wrâld populêr by bluesleafhawwers. Rolling Stone Magazine naam Hopkins as nûmer 71 op yn syn list fan de hûnderd bêste gitaristen fan alle tiden. 

Yn 1980 waard Lightnin' Hopkins opnaam yn de Blues Hall of Fame.

## Diskografy
*1959 - *Lightnin' Hopkins Strums the Blues* (Score)
*1959 - *Lightnin' Hopkins* (Folkways)
*1959 - *Lightnin' and the Blues* (Herald)
*1960 - *Country Blues* (Tradition Records)
*1960 - *Last Night Blues* (Bluesville, tegearre mei Sonny Terry)
*1960 - *Mojo Hand* (Fire Records)
*1960 - *Lightnin' * (Bluesville)
*1960 - *Lightnin' In New York * (Candid Records)
*1961 - *Autobiography in Blues* (Tradition)
*1961 - *Blues in My Bottle* (Bluesville)
*1962 - *Walkin' This Road By Myself* (Bluesville)
*1962 - *Lightnin' and Co.* (Bluesville)
*1962 - *Lightnin' Strikes* (Vee-Jay Records)
*1963 - *Blues Hoot* (Vee-Jay Records; live optreden yn  The Ash Grove 1961 mei Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee en Big Joe Williams)
*1963 - *Smokes Like Lightnin' * (Bluesville)
*1963 - *Goin' Away* (Bluesville)
*1964 - *Down Home Blues* (Bluesville)
*1965 - *Hootin' the Blues* (Bluesville)
*1965 - *Lightnin' Strikes* (Tradition)
*1965 - *The Roots of Lightnin' Hopkins* (Verve Folkways)
*1966 - *Soul Blues* (Bluesville)
*1967 - *My Life in the Blues* (Bluesville)
*1967 - *Original Folk Blues* (Kent Records)
*1967 - *Lightnin'!* (Arhoolie Records)
*1968 - *Freeform Patterns* (International Artists)
*1969 - *California Mudslide (and Earthquake)*
*1991 - *Swarthmore Concert Live, 1964*
*1991 - *Sittin' in with Lightnin' Hopkins* (Mainstream Records)
*1991 - *The Hopkins Bros.* (Arhoolie Records, mei syn bruorren Joel en John Henry)
*1992 - *Lonesome Life* (Home Cooking/Collectables)
*1992 - *It's a Sin to Be Rich* (Gitanes Jazz Productions)
*1993 - *Mojo Hand: The Lightnin' Hopkins Anthology* (Rhino Records)
*1995 - *Po' Lightning* (Arhoolie Records)
*1999 - *The Very Best of Lightnin' Hopkins* (Rhino Records)
*2010 - *His Blues* (Ace Records)

## Films
**The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins* (1969). Rezjy Les Blank en Skip Gerson (Flower Films & Video).
* *The Sun's Gonna Shine* (1969). Rezjy Les Blank en Skip Gerson (Flower Films & Video).
* *Sounder* (1972). Rezjy Martin Ritt. Hopkins sjongt 'Jesus Will You Come By Here.'
* Sûnt 2010 wurdt der wurke oan in dokumintêre oer Hopkins by *Fastcut Films* yn Houston, mei de titel 'Where Lightnin' Strikes.'

## Boeken
* *Lightnin’ Hopkins: Blues Guitar Legend* fan Dan Bowden.
* *Deep Down Hard Blues: Tribute to Lightnin* fan Sarah Ann West.
* *Lightnin' Hopkins: His Life and Blues* fan Alan Govenar (Chicago Review Press).