title: Lightning Hopkins Sings the Blues
text: # Lightning Hopkins Sings the Blues
  
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  Lightning Hopkins Sings the Blues, also released as Original Folk Blues, is a 12-inch LP album by blues musician Lightnin' Hopkins collecting tracks recorded between 1947 and 1951 that were originally released as 10-inch 78rpm records on the RPM label. The album was released on the Mainstream Records low budget, Crown subsidiary and was an early 12-inch LP collections of Lightnin' Hopkins material recorded at Gold Star Studios to be released. In 1999 a double CD collection of Jake Head Boogie was released containing all of the Hopkins recordings released by the RPM label along with several previously unreleased recordings.
  
  ## Track listing
  
  All compositions by Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins
  
  * "Just Sittin' Down Thinkin'" – 2:33
  * "Jake Head Boogie" – 2:53
  * "Lonesome Dog Blues" – 2:38
  * "Tell Me Pretty Mama" – 3:03
  * "Last Affair" – 2:55
  * "Don't Keep My Baby Long" – 2:15
  * "Santa Fe Blues" – 2:23
  * "Give Me Back That Wig" – 1:56
  * "Someday" – 2:38
  * "Ain't It Lonesome" – 2:36
  
  ## Personnel
  
  * Lightnin' Hopkins – guitar, vocals
  