Strums The Blues MT-SKUshare author of Cotton

author of Cotton

These are songs born while traveling America

coupled with a sound somewhere between the Oblivians and the MC5

and Chicago

the Laughing Hyenas took it to a completely different plane

Strums The Blues MT-SKUshare author of CottonLightnin' Hopkins is a true folk singer. His songs are the heart of the South, the very essence of his people, their joys, their triumphs, their difficulties, their oppression. Lightnin's music, like that of any great artist, has a universal quality. When you hear it, it might be your sadness or your ecstasy that is being told. The feeling of all people, the qualities of all living, good and bad, lie in the easy cadences and pathos of Lightnin's