Lightnin Hopkins Blues In My Bottle Bluesville Series Vinyl

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.\nBesides 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."\nSamuel 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.\nHis 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.\nThe Bluesville Acoustic Sounds Series features (AAA) Lacquers Cut from the Original Tapes. Pressed on 180 g vinyl at Quality Record Pressings. Packed in a tip-on Jacket with Obi Strip.