Lightnin'
Lightnin' Hopkins
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CAT # OBCCD-532-25
1. Automobile Blues 4:33 2. You Better Watch Yourself 4:50 3. Mean Old Frisco Blues 3:58 4. Shinin' Moon 4:00 5. Come Back, Baby 3:20 6. Thinkin' 'Bout An Old Friend 4:57 7. The Walkin' Blues 3:15 8. Back To New Orleans 3:24 9. Katie Mae 4:02 10. Down There Baby 4:00
with Leonard Gaskin, Belton Evans
Recorded November 9, 1960.
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