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Loder, Kurt. “Lightnin' Hopkins, 1912–1982: A Classic Blues Life.”
Rolling Stone
(March 18, 1982): 17–18.

Minutaglio, Bill. “Saying Goodbye,”
Houston Chronicle,
February 2, 1982.

Obrecht, Jas, Billy Gibbons, B. B. King, and Johnny Winter. “Requiem for a Bluesman: Lightnin'

Hopkins: Remembrances by B .B. King, Johnny Winter and Billy Gibbons.”
Guitar Player
16, no. 6 (June 1982): 48, 50, 52, 54, 56.

Ola, Akinshiju. “Hopkins: His Music Lives.”
Guardian [UK]
34, no. 20 (February, 17 1982): 55.

Palmer, Robert. “A Requiem for Hopkins: True Poet of the Blues.”
New York Times
(February 17, 1982): C17.

Saxon, Wolfgang. “Sam (Lightnin') Hopkins, 69; Blues Singer and Guitarist.”
New York Times
(February 1, 1982): B4.

Solding, Staffan. “Lightnin' Hopkins, 1912–1982.”
Jefferson
no. 55 (Spring 1982): 44–45.

Stenbeck, Lennart. “Sam ‘Lightnin” Hopkins.”
Orkester Journalen
50, no. 3 (March 1982): 5.

———. “Lightnin' Hopkins: Bluesman och Ordkonstnär.”
Orkester Journalen
50, no. 10 (October 1982): 17–18.

Turner, Bez. “Lightnin' Hopkins.”
Blues Unlimited
no. 142 (Summer 1982): 23.

Vacher, Peter. “Lightnin' Hopkins.”
Jazz Journal
36, no. 3 (March 1983): 14.

Wisse, Rien. “Lightnin' Hopkins Overleden.”
Block
no. 42 (April/May/June 1982): 11–12.

“Abilene,” 49

ACA studio, 59, 64–65, 123

“Airplane Blues,” 143

Aladdin Records, 40–41, 43–45, 48–50, 293n38

Alexander, Alger “Texas,” viii–ix, 15, 21, 27, 30, 41, 55, 84, 87, 117, 146; background of, 22; discovery of, 23; Lightnin' Hopkins, traveling with, 24–26; as mentor, 25; presence of, 24; in prison, 29; singing style of, 23

alternative movement, 174

American Federation of Musicians (AFM), 49

American Folk Blues Festival, 135, 140–41, 144

Amy, Curtis, 293n38

Anderson, Wendell, 180

Angel, Jack, 64

Antone, Clifford, 221–22

Arhoolie Records, xi, 78, 102, 181, 191, 201, 229–30

Aristocrat Records, 47

Asch, Moses, 70, 73, 75, 91–93

Asher, M. Richard, 126

Ash Grove (folk club), 98–100, 168, 197

Austin City Limits
(television program), 211

Autobiography in Blues
(recording), 88

“Automobile Blues,” 110

“Baby, Please Don't Go,” 50, 100, 143–44

“Bad Boogie,” 65.
See also
“My Little Kewpie Doll”

Badeaux, Ed, 79, 91

“Bad Luck and Trouble,” 75

Baez, Joan, 104, 110, 156

Bailey, Donald, 210

Balatony, Krista, 157–59

Balfour, Alan, 142

Barbee, John Henry, 141

Bartlett, John David, 185–86, 232

baseball, 21

Bates, Alan, 300n52

Bates, Frank, 3

“Begging You to Stay,” 58

Bell, Carey, 222

Bell, Rex “Wrecks,” xiii, 219

Belushi, John, 218

Benno, Marc, 213, 215

Benson, David, xiii, 115, 200–2, 204,

206–10, 212, 215–17, 219–20, 222,

224–29, 232, 236; and

“Emmett Till complex,” 211

Berendt, Joachim, 141

Berkeley Folk Festival, 97–98

Berlin, Irving, 104

Berry, Chuck, 67

“Better Watch Yourself,” 310n89. See
also
“Stop Drinking”

“Big Mama Jump,” 47

Bihari brothers, 48; and Joe Bihari, 66

Bishop, Elvin, 67

Bizor, Billy, 27, 123, 125, 158, 163–64, 178, 180, 184–85

“Black Cat,” 58

“Black Cat Bone,” 114

“Black Gal What Makes Your Head So Hard,” 35

“Black Hannah,” 136

Black Orpheus
(film), 159

black vaudeville, 22–23

Blanchard, Carolyn, 34

Blank, Les, x, 174–78, 180, 235

Bleyer, Archie, 110

blues, 82, 94, 236; blues singers, romanticizing of, 84; and jazz, 69–70, 95; in New York, 133;

popularity of, 57, 60

The Blues According to Lightnin'

Hopkins
(film), xi, 42, 178–80, 233

The Blues in East Texas
(recording), 92

Blues in My Bottle
(recording), 117

“Blues in My Mind,” 26

“Blues for Queen Elizabeth,” 87–88

blues revival, 95, 128–29; as

romantic movement, 96

Bluesville Records, 107, 300n44

“Boar Hog Blues,” 25–26, 29–30

Boicel, Doudou, 205–6, 221

Bond, Jimmy, 149

Bonner, Weldon “Juke Boy,” 216, 232

Booker, James, 208

bootlegging, 25

Box, Anna Mae, xiii, 16, 28, 38–39, 224–25, 227–29

Box, Bertha, 224–25

Bradley, Andy, 51

Bramhall, Doyle, 43, 213–15

Braverman, Jack, 64

Brians, Robin Hood, 149–50

Bromberg, Bruce, 189

Broonzy, Big Bill, 30, 41, 56, 70, 79, 84

Broven, John, 112

Brown, Andrew, 96, 98, 119, 126, 293n38

Brown, Buster, 131

Brown, Danny, 213

Brown, “Texas” Johnny, 40, 50, 53, 59, 62, 232

Bruynoghe, Yannick, 117

Bucks, Jabo, 12

“Buddy Brown's Blues,” 118

“Bud Russell Blues,” 181. See
also

“Penitentiary Blues”

Bullock, Dr. Henry Allen, 86

Burks, Pinetop, 32

“Burnin' in L.A.,” 196

Burton, Aaron, 222–23

Butler, Wild Child, 186–88

Byers, Bill, 81

Bynum, Kyla, 79, 82, 85

Cadena, Ozzie, 107, 109

Cahn, Jesse, 139

Cahn, Rolf, 120

“California Mudslide (and Earthquake),” 189

“California Showers,” 122, 196

Camp Logan, 32

Candid Records, 110

“Can't Do Like You Used To,” 43

Cantor, Louis, 66

Carroll, Fred, 185

Carson, Fiddlin' John, 7

“Cemetery Blues,” 63

Centerville (Texas), 1, 13, 179–80

Chambers, Joe, 100

Charles, Antoinette, xi, xiii, 90–91, 93, 109, 113, 118–19, 124, 128, 144, 153–54, 160, 163, 165–66, 169–70, 172, 175, 183, 188, 194, 197, 200, 202, 207, 216, 220, 222, 224–29, 231

Charles, Leonard, 202

Charters, Ann, 70

Charters, Samuel, 42, 69, 78, 83–84, 92–93, 95, 126–28, 146, 157, 203–4, 235, 298n64; and Lightnin' Hopkins, 70–76, 81–82; undermining of, by Mack

McCormick, 90–91

Chatman, Bo, 23

Chatman, Sam, 23

Chenier, Cleveland, 90, 119, 137, 169, 179

Chenier, Clifton, 90, 119, 169, 218, 221, 302–3n11

“Chicken Minnie,” 305n12

Chitlin' Circuit, 23, 57

Choates, Harry, 46, 57

civil rights movement, 133

Clancy Brothers, 298n53; with Tommy Makem, 104

Clay, Francis, 191

Clearwater, Eddie, 222

“Coffee Blues,” 59, 61, 116

Cohen, David, 195

Cohn, Lawrence, 130

Collins, Albert, 228, 232

“Come Go with Me,” 75

“Come On, Baby, Come Home with Me,” 144

Connors, B. J., 97

“Contrary Mary,” 71

“Conversation Blues,” 109

Conversation with the Blues
(Oliver), 103

Cooks, Donald, 62, 64, 123

“Coon Is Hard to Catch,” 119

Cooper, Rob, 32

Copeland, Johnny, 232

Corry, John, 232

country blues, 41, 46, 56, 84, 87

Country Blues
(recording), 87, 89

The Country Blues
(Charters), 73, 84, 95, 157

country suppers, 6–7

Crawford, Don, 149

Crowe, H. M., 64, 293n38

Crudup, Arthur “Big Boy,” 41, 47

Cullum, Lola Ann, 40–42, 44–45, 93, 108, 119, 146, 301n81, 301n82

Cullum, Dr. Samuel J., 40

Cushing, Steve, 222–23

Daily, H. W. “Pappy,” 119

Dallas (Texas): Deep Ellum neighborhood in, 22

Dane, Barbara, 99–100, 125, 131, 138–40, 145, 191

Darin, Bobby, 168–69

Davis, Carl, 23

Davis, Duke, 184–85

Davis, Reverend Gary, 147, 149

Davis, Oscar, xii

Davis, Uel L., 10

Dawkins, Ray, xiv, 1, 2, 9, 17–18, 44

“DC-7,” 118

“Death Bells,” 225

Decca Records, 62, 64

“Deceitful Blues,” 26

De Menil, Christophe, 218–20

De Menil, Dominique, 204–5

DeSanto, Sugar Pie, 141

“Devil Is Watching You,” 119

Diddley, Bo, 67

“The Dirty Dozens,” 89–90

Distler, Marian, 92

Ditzell, Steve, 221

Dixon, Willie, 141, 143, 147–48, 222

D'Lugoff, Art, 104, 114, 133

Dobell, Doug, 87

Donnell, Delmar, 113

“Don't Need No Job,” 64

“Don't Think ‘Cause You're Pretty,” 64–65. See
also
“Ida Mae”

“Don't Wanna Be Baptized,” 193

Dougherty, Gordon, 134

Down Home Blues
(recording), 137, 145

Down South Summit Meetin'
(recording), 101

dozens, 89–90

“Drinkin' Wine Spodee-O-Dee,” 117

Duke/Peacock Records, 52

Dunbar, Rob, 13

Dupree, C. A., 34

Dylan, Bob, 147–48, 156

Earle, Steve, 232

Eggers, Kevin, 190

El Dorado Ballroom, 33–34, 39

Electric Mud
(recording), 192

Elliott, Rambling Jack, 120, 194

Elizabeth II, 87–88

Englelow, G. R., 3

Estes, Sleepy John, 47, 141

“Ethel Mae,” 56

“European Blues,” 37

Evans, Belton, 107, 109

Evans, Fallon, 166

“Fan It,” 75

Filene, Benjamin, 84

“Fishing Clothes,” 149

floating lyrics, ix, 12

folk revival, vii, 70, 95, 129; acoustic sound, championing of, 93–94

Folkways Records, 70, 81, 90–93, 203, 298n64

Foster, Pops, 133

Foster, Preston, 113

Four Chords and Seven Years Ago (recording), 310n89

“Fox Chase,” 184

Frankenstein, Alfred, 98

Freedom Records, 294n47

Freedom Riders, 133

Free Form Patterns
(recording), 184, 185, 187

“Freight Train Blues,” 80.
See also
“Hobo Blues”

Fuller, Jesse, 131

Fulson, Lowell, 29, 131

Funderburgh, Anson, 212–14, 232

Gabriel, Lee, 5–6, 8

Ganz, Isabelle, 85

Gardner, Ida Mae, 17–18

Gardner, Peter, 129

Garrett, Joe, 190

Gaskin, Leonard, 107, 109

Gaslight Club, 148

Gerson, Skip, 174, 175, 177, 180

Gibbons, Billy, ix, 227, 232

Gillespie, Dizzy, 174, 175

Gillette, Pip, xiii

Ginther, Noble, 184, 185

“Give Me Central 209,” 59–61.
See
also
“Hello Central, Give Me Heaven”

“Give Me Time to Think,” 184

Glenn, John, 123

“Glory Be,” 113

“Go Down Ol' Hannah,” 89

Goin' Away
(recording), 120, 127, 132

“Goin' Back to Florida,” 76

“Going Home Blues (Going Back and Talk to Mama),” 2

Goldberg, Joe, 109

Gold Star Records, 46, 48–51, 55, 57–58

Goldstein, Kenneth S., 117

“Good Morning, Little School Girl,” 36, 124, 310n89

“Goodnight Irene,” 70

“Got to Move Your Baby,” 108

The Great Electric Show and Dance (recording), 192, 304n56

Green, Debbie, 120

Greenhill, Manny, 111

Greenhill, Mitch, 111–12, 145

Greenspun, Roger, 180

Grossman, Albert, 147

Grubbs, Jimmie Lee, 79

Guggenheim, Diane (aka Diane Hamilton), 89, 298n53

Gulf Records, 46

“Had a Gal Named Sal,” 64

Hall, Michael, 211

Hammond, John, 70, 216

Hancock, Hunter, 66–67

Handy, W. C., 40

Hansen, Barry, 195

“Happy Blues for John Glenn,” 123

“Happy New Year,” 63

Harlem, 133

Harlem Holiday
(radio program), 66

Harlem Matinee
(radio program), 66

Harold, Dr. Cecil, xi, xiii, 53, 183–84, 188, 200–1, 203–4, 209, 224–25, 227, 233

Harris, John “Fat Jack,” 22

Harris, Peppermint (Harrison D. Nelson), 45, 58

Harris, Sammy, 33

Harrison, Olin, 122

Harvesters, 104

Hawes, Bess Lomax, 98–99

Hayes, Lee, 104

Helfer, Edwin, 222

“Hello Central, Give Me Heaven,” 61, 116, 299n21. See
also
“Give Me Central 209”

Henry, Eddie, 45, 294n47, 295n61

The Henry Miller Odyssey
(documentary), 171

Hentoff, Nat, 70–71, 105, 110, 116

Herald Records, 64–65, 115

Herman, Michael “Hawkeye,” ix

Herridge, Robert, 110

Hess, Bennie, 46

Hess, Norbert, 208

Heywood, Eddie, 23

“Highway Blues,” 63

Hill, Rocky, 226, 227

A History of Leon County
(Gates and Fox), 3, 12

“Hobo Blues,” 80.
See also
“Freight Train Blues”

Hoefer, George, 104

Hofheinz, Roy, 35

Hofstein, Francis, xii, 141, 142

Hogg, Andrew “Smokey,” 56

Holford, Bill, 59, 64–65, 87, 122, 149, 187, 304n56

Holley, Albert, 8

Holt, John, 151, 152

Homage à Lightnin' Hopkins
(television program), 208

“Hoochie Coochie Man,” 66

hoodoo, 113

Hooker, John Lee, 47, 56–57, 59, 61, 84, 151, 167, 204, 205, 218–19, 235