Hey, I'm still alive. An odd uphill bicycle crash delayed the guitar playing recovery, but a bike / music buddy, Mike McMillen and I have been trading CD's of old blues players. Between us we've purchased, among lots of other stuff, nine albums of Lightnin' Hopkins. I highly recommend anyone into blues who hasn't heard him to get some of his work. His earliest (and some of his best, I think) recordings are from the 40's, but he became a bit more well known and recorded in the later part of the 20th century. Here's are some compelling youtube samples of Lightnin':
Lonesome Road, 1960
One of the comments says it all: "the slickest man to ever live."
Mojo Hand, 1962
An interesting bit of improv at the end.
Shotgun blues, 1950 - no video but the music was when he was in his prime.
