Lightnin' Hopkins: His Life and Blues

by Alan Govenar

Book Overview

2011 ARSC Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research for Best History

By the time of his death in 1982, Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins was likely the most recorded blues artist in history. This brilliant biography illuminates the many contradictions of the man and his myth. Born in 1912 to a poor sharecropping family in cotton country, Hopkins left home when he was eight years old with a guitar his brother had...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 164160428X
• ISBN13: 9781641604284
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"