This 1961 solo acoustic album by Lightnin' Hopkins features the legend at his finest. Showcasing Hopkins' guitar and vocals, Blues in My Bottle shines a spotlight on his blues mastery. The album contains Hopkins' performances of originals, traditional standards, and renditions of covers.
Besides such blues standard as "Wine Spodee-O-Dee," "Business in the Bottle," and "Catfish Blues," the album contains several biographical originals, including "Beans, Beans, Beans," and "D-7."
Samuel John "Lightnin'" Hopkins was a Texas country bluesman of the highest caliber. In 2010, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him No.71 on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. He influenced a generation of blues and country musicians from Stevie Ray Vaughan to Hank Williams Jr., while being coined "the embodiment of the jazz-and-poetry spirit" by musicologist Robert McCormick.
His distinctive finger-style technique included playing bass, rhythm, lead, and percussion at the same time, tapping or slapping the body of his guitar for rhythmic accompaniment.
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