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Authors: Lightnin' Hopkins: His Life,Blues

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Leon County Courthouse, Centerville, Texas, 2008.

PHOTOGRAPH BY ALAN GOVENAR

Warren's Bottom, Leon County, Texas, 2008.

PHOTOGRAPH BY ALAN GOVENAR

The house where Lightnin' Hopkins lived in the 1930s, Leon County, Texas, 2008.

PHOTOGRAPH BY ALAN GOVENAR

Ray Dawkins, Centerville, Texas, 2008.
PHOTOGRAPH BY ALAN GOVENAR

Lorine Washington, Centerville, Texas, 2008.

PHOTOGRAPH BY ALAN GOVENAR

Lightnin's daughter Anna Mae Box, Crockett, Texas, 2002.

PHOTOGRAPH BY ALAN GOVENAR

Bill Holford (right), ACA Studios, Houston, ca. late 1950s.
COURTESY OF RICH PATZ/ANDREW BROWN

Lightnin' Hopkins at the Sputnik Bar, Houston, Texas, 1961.
©
CHRIS STRACHWITZ

Lightnin' Hopkins, Houston, Texas, 1959.
COURTESY OF THE ESTATE OF ANDREW A. HANSON

Texian Boys members (L–R) Ed Badeaux, John A. Lomax Jr., and Howard Porper jamming at the Houston Folklore Society.

PHOTOGRAPH BY MARGARET LOMAX, CA. MID-1950S. COURTESY OF JOHN LOMAX III

Lightnin' Hopkins, Houston, Texas, 1959.
COURTESY OF THE ESTATE OF ANDREW A. HANSON

clockwise from top:
Long Gone Miles, LC Williams, Spider Kilpatrick, and Lightnin' Hopkins, Houston, Texas, 1960; paul Oliver interviewing Lightnin' Hopkins, Houston, Texas, 1960; An unidentified friend, Long Gone Miles, Lightnin' Hopkins, and Chris Strachwitz, Houston, Texas, 1960. ©
CHRIS STRACHWITZ

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