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Da '''Sam John Hopkins''', bessa bekannt ois '''Lightnin' Hopkins''' (* 15. Meaz 1912 z Centerville, [[Texas]]; † 30. Jenna 1982 z Houston, [[Texas]]) wor a [[USA|amerikanischa]] [[Blues]]-Senga -Gitarrist und -Komponist. Es ''Rolling Stone'' Magazin hod in Hopkins ois Nummara 71 af da Listn vo de 100 gresstn Gitarristn vo oin Zeidn afgnumma.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-guitarists-of-all-time-19691231/lightnin-hopkins-19691231 |title=Lightnin' Hopkins &#124; Rolling Stone Music &#124; Lists |publisher=Rollingstone.com |date= |accessdate=2010-08-09}}</ref>

Da Robert "Mack" McCormick hod iba eam gsogt, "Hopkins is the embodiment of the jazz-and-poetry spirit, representing its ancient form in the single creator whose words and music are one act".<ref name="russell">{{cite book
| first= Tony
| last= Russell
| year= 1997
| title= The Blues: From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray
| edition=
| publisher= Carlton Books Limited
| location= Dubai
| page= 64
| isbn= 1-85868-255-X}}</ref> ([[boarisch]]: "Da Hopkins is de Vakeaparung vom Geist vo Jazz-und-Lyrik, de oide Form vom ganzheidlichn Schepfa, wo Wort und Musi aus oan Guss san.")

1980 is da Lightnin' Hopkins in de [[Blues Hall of Fame]] afgnumma worn.

== Diskographie (Auszug) ==

* 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 Records)
* 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 at The Ash Grove 1961 with Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, and 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)
* 1971 - Dirty Blues
* 1991 - Swarthmore Concert Live, 1964
* 1991 - Sittin' in with Lightnin' Hopkins (Mainstream Records)
* 1991 - The Hopkins Bros. (Arhoolie Records, with his brothers Joel and 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
* 1999 - The Very Best of Lightnin' Hopkins

== Literatua ==
* Alan Govenar: ''Lightnin’ Hopkins: His Life and Blues''. Chicago Review Press, 2010, ISBN 9781556529627 ({{Google Buch | BuchID=DTPCoNGYkh0C}}).
* Jörg Sommermeyer: ''Sam "Lightnin" Hopkins (15.3.1912-31.1.1982).'' Gitarre & Laute IV/1982, Heft3, S. 131 f.

== Im Netz ==
* {{Discogs|Lightnin' Hopkins}}
* [http://www.bluessource.de/biographien/slhopkins.htm Sam (Lightnin') Hopkins] bei [http://www.bluessource.de/ BluesSource.de]
*  [https://web.archive.org/web/20130807121927/http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xmp46b_the-blues-accordin-to-lightnin-hopkins-1968_lifestyle The Blues According To Lightning Hopkins]

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