Hopkins

Brian Eno with Jon Hopkins & Leo Abrahams - Small Craft On A Milk Sea (2010) [Official Digital Download]

Brian Eno with Jon Hopkins & Leo Abrahams - Small Craft On A Milk Sea (2010)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Time - 48:38 minutes | 505 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

The work in this collection is a result of an occasional collaboration between myself, Leo Abrahams and Jon Hopkins. The two of them are gifted young player/composers whose work, like mine, is intimately connected to the possibilities and freedoms of electronic music. Over the last few years we've worked together several times, enjoying exploring the huge new sonic territories now available to musicians. Mostly the pieces on this album resulted not from 'composition' in the classical sense, but from improvisation.

Lightnin' Hopkins - Rockin at Herald (1960) [Reissue 2008]  Music

Posted by gribovar at April 24, 2023
Lightnin' Hopkins - Rockin at Herald (1960) [Reissue 2008]

Lightnin' Hopkins - Rockin at Herald (1960) [Reissue 2008]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 324 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 161 MB | Covers - 31 MB
Genre: Blues, Texas Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Acrobat (ACMCD 4332)

The rockingest sessions ever recorded by bluesmaster Lightnin' Hopkins. These sessions cut in Houston in 1954 and released on the New York-based Herald label feature a hard driving backbeat and an almost rockabilly feel on the faster tempo numbers. These were amongs the last sessions that Hopkins made fot the R&B jukebox market before embracing the college-based folk circuit in the late fifties. 12 of these tracks were released on an LP in 1960 aimed at the folk audience. That album is now one of the rerest blues collectables. It's all here along with every other title he recorded for Herald; roll back the carpet and put on your dancing shoes, this is no folk-blues session.

Lightnin' Hopkins - King Of Dowling Street (2021)  Music

Posted by delpotro at July 16, 2023
Lightnin' Hopkins - King Of Dowling Street (2021)

Lightnin' Hopkins - King Of Dowling Street (2021)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 954 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 505 Mb | 03:38:51
Blues | Label: Sunset Blvd Records

57 Tracks/20 Never before on CD/12 Previously unreleased performances. Remastered from Analog tapes. Texas bluesman Lightnin’ Hopkins career was both long and fruitful. He performed live for six decades and recorded for over 30 years amassing a catalogue that was larger than almost any of his contemporaries. Not only was he prolific but he was also a great raconteur and a very good live performer with an ‘act’ honed to perfection at pre-war dances and parties. His guitar playing was unconventional, some have even called it ragged, but it is not as a guitarist that he will be remembered. Somehow the way he set his songs seemed totally apposite and it gave everything he did an authenticity that few others were ever able to match.

Timothy Hopkins & Vita Kan - Salute to the Violin (2022)  Music

Posted by delpotro at March 25, 2022
Timothy Hopkins & Vita Kan - Salute to the Violin (2022)

Timothy Hopkins & Vita Kan - Salute to the Violin (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 234 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 138 Mb | Digital booklet | 00:58:52
Classical | Label: Prospero Classical

Timothy Hopkins, born in 1995, is a German/American cellist living in Germany. A special interest for him lies in performing arrangements and transcriptions of pieces from other instrument’s literatures to the cello. Examples are his own arrangement of the Chaconne from the second violin Partita by Johann Sebastian Bach, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso by Camille Saint-Saëns, Scherzo-Tarentelle by Henryk Wieniawsky, as well as numerous transcriptions for different cello ensemble constellations.
Lightnin' Hopkins - Blues In My Bottle (1961) & Walkin' This Road By Myself (1962) [Reissue 1990]

Lightnin' Hopkins - Blues In My Bottle (1961) & Walkin' This Road By Myself (1962) [Reissue 1990]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 398 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 177 MB | Covers - 57 MB
Genre: Acousic Blues, Country Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Ace Records (CDCHD 930)

Lightnin' Hopkins had a hard and fast approach to dealing with the abundance of record labels he recorded for during his career. The irascible bluesman would show up at the session in question but would refuse to play a note until he was paid his fee upfront. Once paid and satisfied, he'd unpack his stock set of boogie blues riffs and pretty much improvise songs on the spot until he'd fulfilled his agreed upon quota. Then he would leave. This system led to an awful lot of similarly constructed and executed throwaway tracks, but Hopkins had a special gift for personalizing the blues that came through in the best of these improvised songs, and a few gems always showed up in the process. This disc combines 1961's Walkin' This Road by Myself, which features Hopkins with drummer Spider Kilpatrick, harmonica player Billy Bizor, and pianist Buster Pickens, with 1963's solo acoustic Blues in My Bottle…

Lightnin' Hopkins - Blues In My Bottle (1961) [Reissue 1990]  Music

Posted by gribovar at April 28, 2023
Lightnin' Hopkins - Blues In My Bottle (1961) [Reissue 1990]

Lightnin' Hopkins - Blues In My Bottle (1961) [Reissue 1990]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 194 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 94 MB | Covers - 6 MB
Genre: Blues, Texas Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: OBC/Prestige/Bluesville Records (00025218050623)

The late, great Lightnin' Hopkins was one of the most natural of bluesmen, a poet who would often make up lyrics as he recorded. He was at his best when unaccompanied, as on this Prestige date recorded in 1961. Though he usually played electric guitar, the Texas blues titan performed on this release with an acoustic, and the result is most rewarding. Tunes include "Goin' to Dallas to See My Pony Run" and "Buddy Brown's Blues."

Lightnin' Hopkins - It's A Sin To Be Rich [Recorded 1972] (1992)  Music

Posted by gribovar at April 26, 2023
Lightnin' Hopkins - It's A Sin To Be Rich [Recorded 1972] (1992)

Lightnin' Hopkins - It's A Sin To Be Rich [Recorded 1972] (1992)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 298 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 118 MB | Covers - 74 MB
Genre: Blues, Texas Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Polydor/PolyGram (517 514-2)

This recording brings to life "lost" sessions recorded spontaneously over a few hours in a L.A. studio in 1972. It's loose, shambolic, and thoroughly authentic. You can all but smell the stale smoke hovering in the air. Hopkins' guitar moans lazily as he banters with buddy John Lee Hooker, then spits out some surprisingly biting slide work. A historic document of the genre.
Timothy Hopkins & Vita Kan - Salute to the Violin (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Timothy Hopkins & Vita Kan - Salute to the Violin (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 58:52 minutes | 994 MB
Classical | Label: Prospero Classical, Official Digital Download

Timothy Hopkins, born in 1995, is a German/American cellist living in Germany. A special interest for him lies in performing arrangements and transcriptions of pieces from other instrument’s literatures to the cello. Examples are his own arrangement of the Chaconne from the second violin Partita by Johann Sebastian Bach, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso by Camille Saint-Saëns, Scherzo-Tarentelle by Henryk Wieniawsky, as well as numerous transcriptions for different cello ensemble constellations.
Lightnin' Hopkins - Lightnin' Strikes Twice [Recorded 1967-1968] (2005)

Lightnin' Hopkins - Lightnin' Strikes Twice [Recorded 1967-1968] (2005)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 676 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 322 MB | Covers - 47 MB
Genre: Blues, Texas Blues, Country Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Little Darlin/KOCH Records (KOC-CD-9850) (DBCD 52)

Aubrey Mayhew, founder of the maverick country label Little Darlin' Records, sought out taciturn bluesman Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins in Houston in 1967 and persuaded him to make some casual field recordings for him at nearby Gold Star Studio and, as it turned out, at two small local bars. The results of these extremely loose and casual sessions were issued as a series of five short albums under the blanket title of The Lost Texas Tapes, and it is those five releases that are collected here into one double-disc set. Intimacy is the operative word for these tracks, as Hopkins (playing solo electric guitar) sounds relaxed and at ease, and while these recordings are hardly the place to start with Lightnin', die-hard fans will find them indispensable for the insight they give into his creative process…
Lightnin' Hopkins ‎- Lightnin' (The Blues Of Lightnin' Hopkins) (Remastered SACD) (1961/2018)

Lightnin' Hopkins ‎- Lightnin' (The Blues Of Lightnin' Hopkins) (Remastered SACD) (1961/2018)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 212 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 95 Mb | 00:41:14
Blues | Label: Analogue Productions

Part of the ultimate audiophile Prestige stereo reissues from Analogue Productions — 25 of the most collectible, rarest, most audiophile-sounding Rudy Van Gelder recordings ever made. All cut at 33 1/3 and also released on Hybrid SACD. All mastered from the original analog master tapes by mastering maestro Kevin Gray.