Gold Star 3131

= Modern 20-529

- Short Haired Woman (alt. tk.) (LH4596)

rec. 1947 in Houston, Tx.; Sam Hopkins, voc, g; Joel Hopkins, g

¹⁾ FANCOURT & McGRATH 2006 list "Short Haired Woman (alt. tk.)" as released on "Dart 123"

Dart 123 [?] ¹⁾
Dart LP 8000 (1962)
Verve V8453 (1962)

- Grievance Blues (1259) (aka Untrue Blues) []
- Unsuccessful Blues (1258) (aka Can't Be Successful) *

alternative coupling ???: ¹⁾
- Short Haired Woman (alt. tk.) (LH4596) #
- Unsuccessful Blues (1258) (aka Can't Be Successful) *

# rec. 1947 in Houston, Tx.; Sam Hopkins, voc, g; Joel Hopkins, g
* rec. 1949 in Houston, Tx.; Sam Hopkins, voc, g; unknown, sp
[] rec. 1949/50 in Houston, Tx.; Sam Hopkins, voc, g

¹⁾ FANCOURT & McGRATH 2006 list "Short Haired Woman (alt. tk.)" as released on "Dart 123"

Dart 123

Dart LP 8000 (1962)
Verve V8453 (1962)

Joel Hopkins
- Good Times Here, Better Down The Road []
- Match Box Blues #
- Accused Me Of Forgin' Can't Even Write My Name
- I Ain't Gonna Roll For The Big Hat Man No More
- Thunder In Germany, Red Cross On My Own §

Sam Lightnin' Hopkins
- Long Way From Texas
- Whiskey, Whiskey
- Getting Out Of The Bushes Tap Dance
- Suicide Blues
- Look Out, Settegast, Here Me And My Partner Come

Joel Hopkins rec. June 12 and # October 31, 1959 in Dickinson, Tx. by Mack McCormick
Sam Hopkins rec. November 19, 1959 in Houston, Tx. by Mack McCormick
photography by Andrew Hanson, Ed Badeaux
[] additional track on Collector's Issue LP
§ actually Hopkins sings "Soldiers dyin' in Germany, Red Cross on my arm"

Document DOCD 5619 content:
Sam 'Suitcase' Johnson
- Sam's Comin' Home
- Sam's Boogie
Bobo Thomas
- Catfish Blues (i Wish I Was A Catfish)
Clifford Gibson (1951)
- Sneaky Groundhog
- Let Me Be Your Handy Man
Juke Boy Bonner
- Rock With Me Baby
- Well Baby
Joel Hopkins (1959)
- Good Times Here, Better Down The Road
- Thunder In Germany
- I Ain't Gonna Roll For The Big Hat Man No More
- Accused Me Of Forgin' Can't Even Write My Name
- Matchbox Blues
Jewell Long (1960)
- Frankie And Albert
- My Pony Run Blues
- Sealy Rag
- Muddy Shoes Blues
Clifford Gibson (1960)
- It's Best To Know Who You're Talking To
- I Don't Want No Woman
- The Monkey Likes To Boogie
- No Success Blues
Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup
- Angel Child (tk. 2)

notes by Tony Standish





Heritage HLP 1001

Heritage discography

notes by Tony Standish





= Collector's Issue C-5530
(1990?) "Joel & Lightnin'
Hopkins (1959)"

Alan Balfour review (Blues
& Rhythm 53 - July 1990)
at www.blindman.com

Collector's Issue
discography

Joel Hopkins tracks
available on
Document DOCD-5619
"Rural Blues Vol. 2
1951-1962"

notes by Mack McCormick

77 LA 12-2 (UK 1960)

77 discography

notes by Mack McCormick

= Candid CJM 8026 (US
1962) "Treasury of Field
Recording"
[Cadence subsidiary label]

[= CJM 8025 / CJS 9025 ???
9025 is Otis Spann: Walking
The Blues; 9026 is Charles
Mingus: Reincarnation Of A
Lovebird !!!]

= Verve Bel Air 331.010
(Fr 196?)
"Sam Lightnin' Hopkins
Blues et Gospel N^o 2"

LP tracks:
(with his brothers Joel and John Henry)
- I'm Gonna See About My Brother John Henry #
- Black Hannah # $
- I Walked From Dallas §
- Hot Blooded Woman Blues # $
- Going Back To Baden-Baden # []

(with Barbara Dane)
- Sometimes She Loves Me
- You Got Another Man
- I'm Going Back, Baby
- Mother Earth
- Jesus Won't You Come By Here []

Side A rec. February 16, 1964 in Waxahachie, Tx.; Sam Hopkins, g, # voc; John Henry Hopkins, g, $ voc; Joel Hopkins, g, § voc
except [] rec. March 17, 1965 in Houston, Tx.; Sam Hopkins, voc, g; Joel Hopkins, g
Side B rec. June 18, 1964 at the Cabale (later The Questing Beast) in Berkeley, Ca.;
except [] rec. November 26, 1961 in Berkeley, Ca.

CD tracks:
- See About My Brother John Henry #
- Hot Blooded Woman # $
- Black Hannah # $
- I Want To Go Fishing
- Doin' Little Heiffer
- Hey Baby Hey
- Saddle Up My Grey Mare
- Tell Me, Tell Me
- Little Girl
- I Got A Brother In Waxahachie
- Match Box Blues § []
- Home With Mama § []
- Come Down To My House
- Grosebeck Blues
- The Dice Game
- I Walked From Dallas §
- Two Brothers Playing (Going Back To Baden-Baden) # []

rec. February 16, 1964 in Waxahachie, Tx.; Sam Hopkins, g, # voc; John Henry Hopkins, g, $ voc; Joel Hopkins, g, § voc
except [] rec. March 17, 1965 in Houston, Tx.; Sam Hopkins, voc, g; Joel Hopkins, g

notes by
Chris A. Strachwitz



Arhoolie 1022 (US 1966)

Arhoolie discography

= Fontana 688 807 ZL

(=) Arhoolie CD 340 (1991)

notes by Chris Strachwitz



Arhoolie 2010 (US 1971)

Arhoolie discography

Wolf/B.o.B. Best of Blues
BoB 20 (Austria 1990)

(=) Wolf/B.o.B. Best of
Blues CD 3 (Austria 2004)