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———.
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Blues Unlimited
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———.
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Jazz Journal
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———. “A Conversation with Lightnin' Hopkins. Pt 2.”
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———. “A Conversation with Lightnin' Hopkins. Pt 3.”
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———.
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———.
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———.
Lightnin' Hopkins: Country Blues.
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———.
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———.
Lightnin' Hopkins: Lightnin' and Co.
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———.
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———.
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———.
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———.
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———. “Lightnin'.”
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Obituaries

Billboard
94 (February 13, 1982): 72.

Black Perspective in Music
10, no. 2 (Fall 1982): 228.

Coda
no. 183 (April 1982): 37.

Creem
13 (May 1982): 14.

Down Beat
49, no. 5 (May 1982): 11.

Goldmine
no. 71 (April 1982).

Guitar Player
16, no. 4 (April 1982): 10.

International Musician 80 (May 1982): 11.

Jazz Magazine
[France] no. 306 (April 1982): 28.

JazzTimes
(April 1982): 8.

Living Blues
no. 52 (Spring 1982): 57.

Neue Zeitschrift für Musik no. 3 (March 1982): 69.

Newsweek
99 (February 15, 1982): 92.

Pickin' the Blues
no. 2 (February 1982): 4.

Rolling Stone
no. 385/386 (December 23, 1982–January 6, 1983): 90.
Time
[USA] 119 (February 15, 1982): 65.
Times
[UK] (February 3, 1982): 10.
Variety
306 (February 3, 1982): 133.

Alvarez, Rafael. “Lightnin' Will Strike the Blues No More.”
The Sun [Baltimore]
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Texas Monthly
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Balalas, Alain. “Lightnin' Hopkins (1912–1982).”
Bulletin du Hot Club de France
no. 298 (June 1982): 22–23.

Balfour, Alan. “Death of a Legend.”
New Musical Express
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Living Blues
no. 53 (Summer/Autumn 1982): 15. Brasso, Paul and J⊘rgen Bennetzen. “Nekrolog: Bed for Lightning.” MM:
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Charters, Samuel. “Lightnin' Hopkins: Vielleicht der Kreativste Blues—Sanger aller Zeiten.”
Blues Forum
no. 6 (2nd Quarter 1982): 4–8.

Claypool, Bob. “Sam ‘Lightnin” Hopkins (1912–1982).”
Second Line
34 (Spring 1982): 10–11.

Dauer, Alfons M. “Lightnin' Hopkins: Der Chantefable-Blues.”
Blues Forum
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———. “Mister Charlie: A Type of Chantefable—Blues in Commemoration of Samuel ‘Lightnin”

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Jazzforschung/Jazz Research
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Demêtre, Jacques. “L'Heritage de Lightnin' Hopkins.”
Jazz Hot
no. 393 (March 1982): 24–25.

Federighi, Luciano. “Blues for Lightnin' Hopkins.”
Musica Jazz
38, no. 3 (March 1982): 9.

Herzhaft, Gérard. “Good Bye Sam.”
Soul Bag
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Hess, Norbert. “Lightnin' Hopkins.”
Jazz Podium
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