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The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins

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Lightnin Hopkins in The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins (1970)
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A portrait of the great Texas bluesman, 'Lightnin' Hopkins. The film includes interviews and a performance by Hopkins.A portrait of the great Texas bluesman, 'Lightnin' Hopkins. The film includes interviews and a performance by Hopkins.A portrait of the great Texas bluesman, 'Lightnin' Hopkins. The film includes interviews and a performance by Hopkins.
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  • Directors
    • Les Blank
    • Skip Gerson(with)
  • Stars
    • Lightnin Hopkins
    • Billy Bizor
    • Mance Lipscomb
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  • Directors
    • Les Blank
    • Skip Gerson(with)
  • Stars
    • Lightnin Hopkins
    • Billy Bizor
    • Mance Lipscomb
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    • 6Critic reviews
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      • 1 nomination

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    Lightnin Hopkins
    Lightnin Hopkins
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    Billy Bizor
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    Mance Lipscomb
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    Ruth Ames
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      • Les Blank
      • Skip Gerson(with)
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      Lighthin' Hopkins: Now, I'll tell you about the blues down here. The blues dwells with you everyday and everywhere. You see, you can a blues about that you're broke. You can have a blues about your girl's that's gone. The blues comes so many different ways until its kind of hard to explain. But, when's ever you get a sad feeling, you tell the whole round world you got nothin' but the blues.

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    Enormously entertaining half-hour documentary that not only showcases late Texas bluesman Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins's famous talent for improvisation (the only recognizable compositions here are snatches of 'Meet Me in the Bottom', a version of Buddy Moss's 'Oh Lordy Mama', and Sonny Boy Williamson's 'Good Morning Little Schoolgirl') but--maybe just as importantly--gives the viewer a glimpse of black life in the rural American South. The musical performances, stories, and incidental footage of Centerville, Texas are fascinating. I particularly enjoyed the scenes of Hopkins playing with songster Mance Lipscomb; a few years later, in Bruce Cook's indispensable tome "Listen to the Blues", Lipscomb declared simply that "I can't play with Lightnin' no more" because Hopkins was such a difficult personality. Obviously a must for country blues aficionados (to see how the form survived, authentic and virtually unchanged, well into the 1960s), "The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins" will be of interest to more general audiences as well.
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    • Release date
      • November 1970 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Production company
      • Flower Films
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      31 minutes
    • Color
      • Color

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