The Great Electric Show and Dance
1969 studio album by Lightnin' Hopkins
| The Great Electric Show and Dance | ||||
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| Studio album by Lightnin' Hopkins | ||||
| Released | 1969 | |||
| Recorded | 1969 | |||
| Studio | ACA Recording Studios, Houston and Steve Wright's Studio, Tyler, TX | |||
| Genre | Blues | |||
| Length | 25:49 | |||
| Label | Jewel Records LP/LPS 5002 | |||
| Producer | Don Logan | |||
| Lightnin' Hopkins chronology | ||||
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The Great Electric Show and Dance is an album by blues musician Lightnin' Hopkins recorded in Texas and released on Stan Lewis' Jewel Records label in 1969.[1][2]
Reception
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [3] |
AllMusic reviewer Steve Leggett stated: "what these tracks reveal is a thoroughly professional band struggling to make heads or tails out of Hopkins' abrupt, seemingly random chord changes and tendency to elongate or shorten sung lines at will. Nothing really congeals as the band chases the baffling and elusive Hopkins from cut to cut, occasionally locking in, only to have Hopkins veer off into new rhythmic directions that apparently only he could anticipate. It's fascinating in a way, a bit like watching blind drunks navigate home from the bar at closing time, each one on roller skates and with a firmly held but completely different idea about longitude and latitude. No one really wins here, not Hopkins, not the band, and certainly not anyone listening to it, making this an album only dead serious Lightnin' Hopkins collectors should seek to find".[3]
Track listing
All compositions by Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins
- "Lovin' Arms" – 2:48
- "Rock Me Mama" – 2:00
- "Mr. Charlie, Pt. One" – 2:15
- "Mr. Charlie, Pt. Two" – 2:30
- "Play with Your Poodle" – 1:25
- "You're Too Fast" – 1:45
- "Love Me This Morning" – 3:20
- "I'm Comin' Home" – 2:45
- "Ride in Your New Automobile" – 3:06
- "Breakfast Time" – 2:55
Personnel
Performance
- Lightnin' Hopkins – guitar, vocals
- Unidentified musicians – harmonica, keyboards. bass, drums
Production
- Don Logan – producer
References
- ^ Wirz' American Music: Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins discography accessed November 16, 2018
- ^ Both Sides Now: Jewel Album Discography, Part 1: LP-5000 Blues Series accessed November 16, 2018
- ^ a b Leggett, Steve. Lightnin' Hopkins: The Great Electric Show and Dance – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved November 16, 2018.
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Lightnin' Hopkins
- Lightnin' Hopkins (1959)
- Country Blues (1959)
- Autobiography in Blues (1960)
- Down South Summit Meetin' (1960)
- Last Night Blues (1961)
- Lightnin' (1961)
- Lightnin' in New York (1961)
- Blues in My Bottle (1961)
- Mojo Hand (1962)
- Lightnin' Sam Hopkins (1962)
- Walkin' This Road by Myself (1962)
- Lightnin' and Co. (1962)
- Lightnin' Strikes (1962)
- Blues Hoot (1963)
- Smokes Like Lightning (1963)
- Goin' Away (1963)
- Hootin' the Blues (1964)
- Down Home Blues (1964)
- Soul Blues (1965)
- My Life in the Blues (1965)
- The King of the Blues (1965)
- Lightning Hopkins with His Brothers Joel and John Henry / with Barbara Dane (1966)
- Lightnin' Strikes (1966)
- Blue Lightnin' (1967)
- Something Blue (1967)
- Texas Blues Man (1968)
- Free Form Patterns (1968)
- Talkin' Some Sense (1968)
- The Great Electric Show and Dance (1969)
- California Mudslide (and Earthquake) (1969)
- Lightnin'! (1969)
- Lightning Hopkins in Berkeley (1972)
- The Swarthmore Concert (1993)
- Live at Newport (2002)
- In the Key of Lightnin' (2002)
- Lightnin' Hopkins Strums the Blues (1958)
- Last of the Great Blues Singers (1960)
- Lightnin' and the Blues (1960)
- Lightning Hopkins Sings the Blues (1961)
- Early Recordings (1965)
- Early Recordings Vol. 2 (1971)
- Po' Lightnin' (1983)
- Mojo Hand: The Life and Music of Lightnin' Hopkins
