Lightnin' Hopkins - Double Blues (1973)
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Lightnin' Hopkins' plaintive, soft-rolling blues style is exemplified on "Let's Go Sit on the Lawn," "Just a Wristwatch on My Arm," "I'm a Crawling Black Snake," Willie Dixon's "My Babe," and others.

Accompanied only by himself on guitar (and oh what a guitar he plays), Leonard Gaskin (bass), and Herb Lovelle (drums), Hopkins' seductive, intricate guitar picks and strums will dance around in your head long after this album has played.

His voice, which sounds like it's aged in Camels and Jim Beam, conveys his heartfelt sagas to the fullest. A prolific songwriter, Hopkins wrote every song except the Dixon tune.

All tracks were recorded May 4 - 5, 1964. Tracks 1 - 7 were originally released on the "Down Home Blues" album, tracks 8 - 17 on the "Soul Blues" album.

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Tracklist:
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01. Let's Go Sit On the Lawn 
02. I'm Taking A Devil of a Chance 
03. I Got Tired
04. I Asked The Bossman 
05. Just A Wristwatch On My Arm 
06. I Woke Up This Morning 
07. I Was Standing on 75 Highway 
08. I'm Going To Build Me a Heaven of My Own 
09. My Babe 
10. Too Many Drivers 
11. I'm A Crawling Black Snake 
12. Rocky Mountain Blues 
13. I Mean Goodbye 
14. The Howling Wolf 
15. Black Ghost Blues 
16. Darling, Do You Remember Me? 
17. Lonesome Graveyard 

*1973 / 1989 Fantasy FCD 24702-2