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Prestige

Soul Blues

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Recorded1965
LabelPrestige
CatalogPR 7377
Released1965
Personnel6 credited players
Discogsmaster 346431

The record

Not a solo country-blues record: Leonard Gaskin's bass and Herbie Lovelle's drums sit behind Hopkins's guitar and voice through Black Ghost Blues, My Babe and The Howling Wolf. A blues session issued on a jazz label, which the Prestige catalog number PR 7377 tells you before the needle drops. The copy documented here is a 1965 German stereo pressing, notes by Chris Albertson.

Tracks

  1. I'm Going To Build Me A Heaven Of My Own
  2. My Babe
  3. Too Many Drivers
  4. I'm A Crawlin' Black Snake
  5. Rocky Mountain Blues
  6. I Mean Goodbye
  7. The Howling Wolf
  8. Black Ghost Blues
  9. Darling, Do You Remember Me?
  10. Lonesome Graveyard

Session personnel

  • Leonard Gaskin — Bass
  • Don Schlitten — Cover, Design
  • Dan Sinclair (2) — Cover, Illustration
  • Herbie Lovelle — Drums
  • Lightnin' Hopkins — Guitar, Vocals
  • Chris Albertson — Liner Notes

Contemporary reception

No period review located yet. The vintage-press pipeline searches DownBeat, Cash Box, and Billboard for this session.

Pressings

Showing the first pressing, audiophile reissues and copies carrying a collector marker, out of 28 pressings on file.

1965Prestige · PR 7377 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono earliest on file · RVG stamp
2017Prestige · PR 7377 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Numbered, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo, 200 gram Analogue Productions · RVG stamp
2017Prestige · PR 7377 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Remastered, Stereo, 200 gram Analogue Productions · RVG stamp
2022Prestige · PR 7377 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Repress, Stereo, 180g Analogue Productions
2023Prestige · PR 7377 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Repress, Stereo, 180g Analogue Productions
2023Analogue Productions · APRJ 7377 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Repress, Stereo, 180g Analogue Productions
1965Prestige · PR 7377 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Promo, Stereo · RVG stamp
1965Prestige · PR 7377 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono · RVG stamp; laminated sleeve
1972Prestige · PR 7377 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo · RVG stamp
1972Prestige · PR 7377 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, (High Fidelity) · RVG stamp
1972Milestone (4) · P 7377 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo · RVG stamp
1982Prestige · HBS 8014 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Stereo · RVG stamp
2015Prestige · PR 7377 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Numbered, Stereo, Mono · RVG stamp
Prestige · PR 7377 — Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono · RVG stamp

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