This is and has been my very favorite blues song. Despite all of the great blues songs that I have ever heard, I don't see that ever changing. Goosebumps every time.
I am a white Scottish lad born Christmas 1980 I'm 40 now and lived thru the 90s rave and dance music scene which I think everyone did for a time...but deep inside all that speed and fastness I heard the blues and my soul was hooked forever...the doors BB king buddy guy John Lee hooker And SRV...this is what stuck real music real soul...I hated the nineties for my childhood but loved them also because the sadness that came from that time is what makes me feel the blues now or hear them in my heart...life is tough then you die...but heaven awaits every clean soul I believe
I met him when I was a little boy at my Aunt Flora's home in Mississippi he played for us and we danced til we couldn't stand anymore. I love you Uncle Lightnin' and will always remember your wise words.
I somewhat recently got into the blues and I absolutely love it. In researching for blues musicians I came across Lightnin, and the first time I heard his music I told myself "YES, this is how I always imagined the blues". And now he is my favorite blues man. Amazing.
"poor momma sittin' down with a pencil and paper, figurin' out every dime that the family made" Damn this hits home hard. The blues always resonated with me as a dirt poor white man, I think this genre of music transcends race, I think it speaks to all of those at the bottom of our social hierarchy. If you've ever faced poverty, desolation, hunger, hardship or hopelessness then this music seems to capture an essence of those feelings and memories.
it was 1996 when i first heard that song ...it did something in me,i played 100 times to learn it, to get that feeling, from then im with the blues always on my guitar. ol lightnin got that feeling ...the Blues...i love blues!!! sam lightnin hopkins was a legend .
Kept thinking of this song during the recent hot, humid and triple heat index days that went on weeks straight in the MidAtlantic here. What a masterpiece this song is!
Been listening to Lightening for thirty years now... back when blues albums... were hard to get... have listened to a lot of other blues men and women... I always come back to Sam Hopkins.. he has the lazy voice and guitar of a master ... the blues just flow out of him...
I remember hearing this as a kid my dad was and still is a huge Lightin fan I didnt want to hear this at the time... You grow up an experience some real blues you appreciate thsngs like this.... Thank you for the post
ought to work but now that i discoverd them good old bluesmen i keep on drinkin with my own satisfaction to lightin's art and them good men dead and gone from the delta. i'm doggone glad to see that this bs website brings across so much great music such as this. respect to them who still appreciate this art and puttin it on the intranet makes me glad as hell. there is mercy for an alcoholic goddamit i love it.
In the fifties 100 pounds of cotton sold for 3 to 4 dollars. Now in case you didn't know that is a hell of a lot of fluffy white balls. You'd work from early in the mornin' dragging a 9 foot cotton sack behind you. You work in the mornin' so dew's still on the plants and it makes 'em weigh more.
im not much for posting twice on a video, i know alot of blues but this has to be one of the best blues songs that has ever been written. you can feel everything that is the blues in this song. lightnin is one of the top blues singers that will ever live. thank you for posting this never take it down
As a 35 year old whiteman from Memphis all I wanna do is cry. I listen to this music almost everyday in my man cave. I know this isn't BB King but man I can only imagine. Heart is out
40 years since I first heard this recording. (And I still have the vinyl.) Perfect phrasing then, still is, and he was pissed at his rhythm section, as always. You can't beat this shit.
It s funny how only so few can find this music, and if your lucky enough to find it. Enjoy it and appreciate what a talent he his and how real this is. Mainstream music these days just dont have a clue! Rappers need to shut up and listen to something real.
whoever made this video to this song is a damn genius!!! it fits perfect. i love the railroad picture at the end. it makes me want to take a road trip.
Sam Lightnin' Hopkins es uno de lo músicos más prolíficos de la historia del blues. Nacido en 1912, en un polo agrícola de las cercanías de Houston, aprendió de su hermano Joel los elementos musicales en una guitarra de construcción un tanto tosca, pero desde muy niño recibió de Blind Lemon Jefferson un legado inestimable, el carisma del blues. Aquel fuego interior, aquella llama incandescente fue tan determinante en su vida que le convertiría, con apenas veinte años en el trovero tejano por excelencia. Creador de un relato poético arraigado tanto en la historia colectiva como personal. Durante su larga vida construyó la crónica de los descendientes del éxodo afroamericano, producto inequívoco de sus idas y venidas a través de campos y ciudades tejanas. Personaje cautivador de voz rocosa, sus textos de un realismo sobrecogedor y su toque etéreo, hicieron de él uno de los grandes personajes del blues rural. La enseñanza de Blind Lemon fue determinante y, sin duda alguna, también aquella guitarrilla rudimentaria que se convertiría «en el áncora de sus sueños y en la banda sonora de sus aspiraciones a una vida muy distinta de la que le esperaba, como a tantos otros muchachos de color, marcados por un duro y desolador trabajo en las plantaciones».
Slowed down blues is some of my favorite and really takes me back to the origins of the blues. You can feel the expression on a different level. I’ll forever be a blues baby
I used to have a live version of this on tape back in the 80s from some now-obscure anthology, As I recall Lightnin' was complaining about the sound while playing, there was no bassist, and there was an extra verse about getting mixed up in some gambling game. Don't have it now, but it must be out there somewhere, good luck in tracing it.
This is and has been my very favorite blues song. Despite all of the great blues songs that I have ever heard, I don't see that ever changing. Goosebumps every time.
Ole Lighting Hopkins and Chester The Howling Wolf Burnett. Yessah
I feel the same way about 'Born in the bottoms'
@@Metalamigo1984 You may have turned my number one into number two. Thank you!
Absolutely. I started listening to him about 40 years ago and he still holds a unique place in my heart.
I am a white Scottish lad born Christmas 1980 I'm 40 now and lived thru the 90s rave and dance music scene which I think everyone did for a time...but deep inside all that speed and fastness I heard the blues and my soul was hooked forever...the doors BB king buddy guy John Lee hooker And SRV...this is what stuck real music real soul...I hated the nineties for my childhood but loved them also because the sadness that came from that time is what makes me feel the blues now or hear them in my heart...life is tough then you die...but heaven awaits every clean soul I believe
The photo with the kids in different hats is the hardest story iv ever seen in my life, as of this moment in time.
I met him when I was a little boy at my Aunt Flora's home in Mississippi he played for us and we danced til we couldn't stand anymore. I love you Uncle Lightnin' and will always remember your wise words.
ehopkins2 pretty cool!
ehopkins2 Wow consider yourself a very lucky person.
Do you know his son name @ ehopkins2
Wow so Lightin's Father was from Mississippi?
Sweet!
Nobody like him. I never get tired of listening to his recordings. A genius.
I somewhat recently got into the blues and I absolutely love it. In researching for blues musicians I came across Lightnin, and the first time I heard his music I told myself "YES, this is how I always imagined the blues". And now he is my favorite blues man. Amazing.
"poor momma sittin' down with a pencil and paper,
figurin' out every dime that the family made"
Damn this hits home hard. The blues always resonated with me as a dirt poor white man, I think this genre of music transcends race, I think it speaks to all of those at the bottom of our social hierarchy.
If you've ever faced poverty, desolation, hunger, hardship or hopelessness then this music seems to capture an essence of those feelings and memories.
Hey man, can you put all the lyrics here, please?
white supremacy is a distraction to keep the white poor from noticing they aren't much better off
this music is what happens when someone has expeienced life and absorbed it to the bone. An expression of life. we dont have this in music anymore.
Lightin' Hopkins is my hero!! What a feeling!! Every string says something, a story.
What a voice!!
I am an Black/african-american male who loves blues. So I love Lightin hopkins. It moves me. The blues moves me
This is probably the most soulful song I've heard in the past year and a half. I listen to this everytime I come home from a hard day's work.
The blues knows no racial boundaries. Amen, brother.
This has got to be archived in the Library of Congress if it isn't already.
if its copywrited then it is
Man, this dude laid it out on the line with strings! Pain and cotton equals beautiful music! We are blessed to have his recordings!
Definitely one of the Greatest. Long live Lightnin' ...Long live the Blues !!
I love Lightnin's soulful rich voice. It makes my head melt!
My first inspiration for playing blues. Still at it 70 years later. Timeless
You just can't beat this particular recording of this tune. I love the way loses weight between stanzas. Long live Lightnin'.
This is the true blues....
Extraordinary guitar and voice equally extraordinary LH
when Lightnin' sing everybody listens!
it was 1996 when i first heard that song ...it did something in me,i played 100 times to learn it, to get that feeling, from then im with the blues always on my guitar. ol lightnin got that feeling ...the Blues...i love blues!!! sam lightnin hopkins was a legend .
Lightnin' Hopkins is the definition of The Blues.
Kept thinking of this song during the recent hot, humid and triple heat index days that went on weeks straight in the MidAtlantic here. What a masterpiece this song is!
somemore of this texas country blues. Best blues in the world.
He is hurting me deeply. How beautiful and clear. And straight up soul.
Blues is the roots, everything else is the fruits. - Willie Dixon
Hot dang! Lightnin´ Hopkins has to be one of the most soulful musicians who ever lived.
When I think of Blues, this is the song
Great song! Great american people! i love american blues! Greetings from Brazil!
Been listening to Lightening for thirty years now... back when blues albums... were hard to get... have listened to a lot of other blues men and women... I always come back to Sam Hopkins.. he has the lazy voice and guitar of a master ... the blues just flow out of him...
I remember hearing this as a kid my dad was and still is a huge Lightin fan I didnt want to hear this at the time... You grow up an experience some real blues you appreciate thsngs like this.... Thank you for the post
This song has gotten me through alot of Monday mornings
Precious Blues classic...
I like a lot.....my soul is Blues.....my live is music Blues......nothing more
I love this song. Big fan of the blues and this song just says all about blues and its history and why its so great. Thank you for posting the song.
Just want to add, Sam Lightnin' Hopkins - Cotton is etched in my soul. Amen
i clicked the like button before i heard the song, because it's blues, it can't be wrong option :D
Lightnin' is my favorite bluesman. It's just too real.
Could not be any better. Thanks for posting.
Oooh there's something so old in this song , older than America.... To west Africa.... To mali .... To the hunters music, that's where this all began
Not really. Black southerns have the same culture as a southern redneck.
incredible music I'd never of heard if not for UA-cam....
ought to work but now that i discoverd them good old bluesmen i keep on drinkin with my own satisfaction to lightin's art and them good men dead and gone from the delta. i'm doggone glad to see that this bs website brings across so much great music such as this. respect to them who still appreciate this art and puttin it on the intranet makes me glad as hell. there is mercy for an alcoholic goddamit i love it.
Sam is the man.
precission, humbleness, cool, yeahhh!!! signs of a true master
Hector from Argentina
i dont think it gets any better then this... does it??
Lightnin' is my all time favourite among the old blues masters. This is certainly blues with a feeling!
Next to Mississippi John Hurt, Lightnin´ Hopkins is my favourite bluesman. The emotion, soul and heart in this man´s music are extraordinary.
In the fifties 100 pounds of cotton sold for 3 to 4 dollars. Now in case you didn't know that is a hell of a lot of fluffy white balls. You'd work from early in the mornin' dragging a 9 foot cotton sack behind you. You work in the mornin' so dew's still on the plants and it makes 'em weigh more.
This is a great song my god what a life story .
take notes boys this guy the best ever was
I can feel the heat of the day and the humidity squeezing the sweat out of me.
This is far and away my favorite blues song that I have ever heard. Weigh my head down with beer and strap the headphones over mah dome... Gorgeous.
The picture of Lightnin' chilling in the projects is soooo cool.
im not much for posting twice on a video, i know alot of blues but this has to be one of the best blues songs that has ever been written. you can feel everything that is the blues in this song. lightnin is one of the top blues singers that will ever live. thank you for posting this never take it down
if you know the blues it dont get no better than this love love it
As a 35 year old whiteman from Memphis all I wanna do is cry. I listen to this music almost everyday in my man cave. I know this isn't BB King but man I can only imagine. Heart is out
Tonybone Robert the blues ain't bad 😎
40 years since I first heard this recording. (And I still have the vinyl.)
Perfect phrasing then, still is, and he was pissed at his rhythm section, as always. You can't beat this shit.
" Don't weigh but 90 lbs " Po Lightnin.✊🏿
Compare this to everything popular now & wonder ... what the hell happened?!
THIS is talent, feeling, passion, effort & work.
extraordinaire Pure Beauté very Nice Beautiful Song. respect
the double bass and snare with lightnin's guitar...this stuff just fixes your soul.
Für mich der beste Blues Sänger
this is the heart and soul of blues...required listening...too CRT for high school music classes?
It s funny how only so few can find this music, and if your lucky enough to find it. Enjoy it and appreciate what a talent he his and how real this is. Mainstream music these days just dont have a clue! Rappers need to shut up and listen to something real.
whoever made this video to this song is a damn genius!!! it fits perfect. i love the railroad picture at the end. it makes me want to take a road trip.
Black people, this our history in song right here. Listen good and it will soothe your soul🎶🤗
Lightin hopkin, song from his soul because of what had seen an heard from family story
Southern history.
Roots!!!!! This makes me think of my background!
Po' lightnin';
so sincere.
can't talk blues if you ain't mentioning lightnin', thank you for the endless tunes...
A terrible price to pay for such beautiful music.
This really was a solid bet ,picking cotton all day long with no rest ,and for years ,for life ,
this song is one of the greatest ever written.
Straight to the soul
This is history, this is art, this is the suffering of oppressed people. Moved me 40 years ago, moves me now. Poor lightnin.
11 yeats ago walking to work I always had this song in my headphones.
Helps me connect with my ancestors through spirit and mind
Lightnin', one of the best musicians ever........
Man I love this song to the heart my father used to really love this song and it brings back memories. I can relate.
And could really play it on his guitar
Thanks for sharing. This was my childhood.....
back porch deep south texas blues...lightnin hopkins
Love and miss you forever. Lightnin Hopkins 💙
great lead runs on a flat top! that's playing with real feeling and talent.
now that's the real blues💙💙
Sam Lightnin' Hopkins es uno de lo músicos más prolíficos de la historia del blues. Nacido en 1912, en un polo agrícola de las cercanías de Houston, aprendió de su hermano Joel los elementos musicales en una guitarra de construcción un tanto tosca, pero desde muy niño recibió de Blind Lemon Jefferson un legado inestimable, el carisma del blues. Aquel fuego interior, aquella llama incandescente fue tan determinante en su vida que le convertiría, con apenas veinte años en el trovero tejano por excelencia. Creador de un relato poético arraigado tanto en la historia colectiva como personal. Durante su larga vida construyó la crónica de los descendientes del éxodo afroamericano, producto inequívoco de sus idas y venidas a través de campos y ciudades tejanas. Personaje cautivador de voz rocosa, sus textos de un realismo sobrecogedor y su toque etéreo, hicieron de él uno de los grandes personajes del blues rural. La enseñanza de Blind Lemon fue determinante y, sin duda alguna, también aquella guitarrilla rudimentaria que se convertiría «en el áncora de sus sueños y en la banda sonora de sus aspiraciones a una vida muy distinta de la que le esperaba, como a tantos otros muchachos de color, marcados por un duro y desolador trabajo en las plantaciones».
When he says " Poor Momma sitting down with her pencil and paper ........"
That just makes me sad .
Ba ba ba bad too the dam bone
Love you music Mr Hopkins ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Just fantasic classic blues!! Love it!!!
this is inspiring, and humbling, it kinda puts it in perspective,, im thinking things aint so bad, this is the blues!
Slowed down blues is some of my favorite and really takes me back to the origins of the blues. You can feel the expression on a different level. I’ll forever be a blues baby
I do not speak German but your sentence starts with "danke" (thanks) and finishes with Blues, so I have to give you a thumbs up!
I used to have a live version of this on tape back in the 80s from some now-obscure anthology, As I recall Lightnin' was complaining about the sound while playing, there was no bassist, and there was an extra verse about getting mixed up in some gambling game. Don't have it now, but it must be out there somewhere, good luck in tracing it.
blues is the wisdom
This track is also on an available CD called"" Lighnin'Hopkins--'Nothing But The Blues"". (Collectables)
Lightnin',...he the Man!
Love ya Sam.
The best we had.....still have!
Einer der geilsten Blues Songs ever und ich hab s auf cd😁
Lord , Lord ........
This song makes me want to cry .
A real Bluesman !
that first guitar note... amazing
Lightnin' was the king of Texas country blues. Don't ya just love him?
very beautiful,nice, music…very beautiful,very nice song…very good song…loved….
same here, music like this eases the pain. and ppl wonder why i listen to this music.
This song can honestly bring me tears
this joint is DEEP...