''Blues Hoot'' (also released as ''Coffee House Blues'') is a live album by blues musicians

Lightnin' Hopkins Samuel John "Lightnin'" Hopkins (March 15, 1912 – January 30, 1982) was an American country blues singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional pianist from Centerville, Texas. In 2010, ''Rolling Stone'' magazine ranked him No. 71 on its li ...

Brownie McGhee Walter Brown "Brownie" McGhee (November 30, 1915 – February 16, 1996) was an American folk and Piedmont blues singer and guitarist, best known for his collaboration with the harmonica player Sonny Terry. Life and career McGhee was bor ...

, and

Sonny Terry Saunders Terrell (October 24, 1911 – March 11, 1986), known as Sonny Terry, was an American Piedmont blues and folk musician, who was known for his energetic blues harmonica style, which frequently included vocal whoops and hollers and occas ...

recorded at the Ash Grove in Los Angeles in 1961 and originally released on the Davon label before being reissued by

Horizon Records Horizon Records was an American independent record label founded in 1962 by Dave Hubert. Horizon was originally a folk and blues label distributed by World Pacific Records. When Liberty Records acquired World Pacific in 1965, it also took over th ...

in 1963 and

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in 1965.Wirz' American Music: Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins discography
accessed November 7, 2018

Reception

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reviewer Bruce Eder stated: "Lightnin' Hopkins is the star of this live recording ... The sound is excellent, the performances are spirited enough ... It is difficult to say, however, anything distinguishes this set from the other folk club recordings that Hopkins, Terry and McGhee left behind on other labels".

Track listing

All compositions by Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins except where noted # ''Introduction'' – 1:45 # "Big Car Blues" – 3:03 # "Coffee House Blues" – 2:01 # "Stool Pigeon Blues" – 3:04 # "Ball of Twine" – 2:52 # "Blues for Gamblers" (Traditional) – 6:42 # "Walk On" (Brownie McGhee, Ruth McGhee) – 2:50 # "Blues for Lowlands" (Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry) – 4:50 # "

Down by the Riverside "Down by the Riverside" (also known as "Ain't Gonna Study War No More" and "Gonna lay down my burden") is an African-American spiritual. Its roots date back to before the American Civil War, though it was first published in 1918 in ''Plantati ...

" (Traditional) – 3:17 # "Blowin' the Fuses" (McGhee, Terry) – 5:55 # "Right On That Shore" (Traditional) – 2:50

Personnel

Performance

– guitar, vocals (tracks 1–6 & 11) *

– guitar, vocals (tracks 7–11) *

– harmonica, vocals (tracks 7–11) *

Big Joe Williams Joseph Lee Williams (October 16, 1903 – December 17, 1982) was an American Delta blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter, notable for the distinctive sound of his nine-string guitar. Performing over five decades, he recorded the songs "Baby, Pl ...

– guitar, vocals (track 6)

References

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