R.E.M.'s “Lightnin’ Hopkins” isn’t a song about the musician of the same name. Although the title of the third track on side two of Document shares its moniker with Sam “Lightnin’” Hopkins, spotlights ...

The Texas Historical Commission has approved the text that Eric Davis submitted for the historical marker honoring late Houston blues legend Lightnin’ Hopkins, and will now send the text to a foundry ...

He is - with all apologies to ZZ Top, who would probably agree - Houston's greatest musical export. A man whose often simple country blues songs, laconic delivery and instantly identifiable guitar ...

Tomorrow, Rocks Off – and, we hope, a lot of our readers – will drag our raggedy asses out of bed and over to Project Row Houses in Third Ward at 10 a.m. to witness something incredible: The ...

Lightnin’ Hopkins embodied the blues. His singing, guitar playing, his physical appearance, personality, and demeanor, were the blues. One of the most recognizable bluesmen to come out of Texas, ...

Legendary Texas bluesman Lightnin' Hopkins achieved an effortlessly iconic look with shades, a fedora, a cardigan, a dangling cigarette and gold teeth. Hopkins' manner also made for colorful stories ...

The track, “Blues Jumped a Rabbit,” is out this week as part of the new Mack McCormick archive three-box set of 66 songs featuring Hopkins. The project is set for release this summer on August 4. The ...

Listen, if you will, to the first 30 seconds of Lightnin’ Hopkins’ “Moanin’ Blues.” Listen to what happens when the weight of the world and love and loss is too much – if that all could form a pulse, ...

Country, big band, R&B, blues and pop music all find their way into "Battleground Korea: Songs and Sounds of America's Forgotten War," a new anthology of music and spoken-word recordings from the ...

On April 3rd, Craft Recordings brings Bluesville back with AAA vinyl from John Lee Hooker and Lightnin’ Hopkins. No studio gloss, just the real work, cut straight from tape. Fondly tagged the “King of ...

Texas blues singer/guitarist Sam "Lightnin'' Hopkins could lay claim to the authentic blues, having worked in the cotton fields for years. He turned electric in the 1950s, and toggled between acoustic ...