Lightnin' Hopkins News

Mack McCormick has been principally known for different things at different times of his life.

The raw emotional power of a historic musical era pours out of the photographs at a new exhibition dedicated to its greatest exponents.

Blues, roots music, garlic, and eccentric German directors are the stuff of inspiration for documentarian Les Blank.

It takes a lot of nerve to call your CD Waiting for Perfection , even when the featured guitarist's bona fides are as untouchable as they come.

There's an old blues tune by Lightnin' Hopkins that says you 'never miss your water until the well runs dry.' That should have been the running theme song throughout filmmaker Irena Salina's cautionary, ...

From a farm north of Hillsborough to, in John Dee Holeman's words, "Africa, Asia, Thailand, Bangkok, Honululu, Hong Kong, China, and every which way." That's where a guitar can take you - far from home.

Now open just under two weeks, House of Blues Houston has immediately set a high standard - not just for other music venues in the city, but for itself.

Desperate to record song ideas, Grammy Award-winning R&B singer Erykah Badu used to dial her own phone number and sing into the voicemail.

Submitted by SHNS on Tue, 07/29/2008 - 17:31. Back in the late '50s, when he was a teen-ager, Taj Mahal was torn between a career in music and a life on the farm.

One of my favorite blues songs of all time is Blind Lemon Jefferson's "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean." Especially these lyrics: Did you ever hear that coffin sound Means another poor boy is under the ground ...

Tony Joe White is a one-man genre, the first and perhaps only progenitor of a particular, potent strain of swamp rock, which he alone seems to have the musical gifts to play: a deep voice that has gained grit ...

It's amazing that more car accidents do not occur at 4th Avenue and Blair Boulevard.

Most of the musicians I've been featuring in this series have been from Mississippi, with one trip out East ; this time let's go in the other direction, and check out the great Texan bluesman Lightnin' Hopkins: ...

H e's a joker, a space cowboy and a master of the radio hook. Steve Miller is also a yakker.

Taj Mahal got valuable musical advice from blues elders, including Lightnin' Hopkins, when he first embarked on his unconventional path as a musician.