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as a double LP compilation titled ''How Many More Years I Got'', with additional tracks from the sessions.

Reception

AllMusic reviewer Nathan Bush stated: "The players here are extremely loose, betraying a casual interest in the task at hand. They sound like a group of borrowed session men, but were in fact a small combo familiar both with each other and Hopkins himself. ... Hopkins was apparently reluctant to do second takes, however, and these recordings show it. ... the performances hardly approach the level of Hopkins' solo sides from the period, let alone his best work". ''

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'' wrote that the album "break away from the guitar-only format and on several tracks call in friends like Pickens (playing on what would be his last session)".

Track listing

All compositions by Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins except where noted # "Sinner's Prayer" – 3:45 # "Angel Child" – 3:30 # "The Fox Chase" – 3:18 # "I Got a Leak in This Old Building" – 5:19 # "You Is One Black Rat" – 2:29 # " My Baby Don't Stand No Cheating" (

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) – 3:30 # "Mama Blues" – 5:16 # "Mojo Hand" – 3:19 # " Have You Ever Been Mistreated" ( Eddie Boyd) – 4:04 *Recorded at ACA Studio, Houston, TX, on February 17, 1962 (tracks 3, 5, 6, 8 & 9) and February 20, 1962 (tracks 1, 2, 4, 7 & 10)

Personnel

Performance

* Lightnin' Hopkins – guitar, vocals *

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– harmonica, vocals (tracks 3, 5, 6, 8 & 9) *

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– piano (tracks 1, 2, 4, 7 & 10) *Donald Cooks –

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(tracks 1, 2, 4, 7 & 10) *Spider Kilpatrick – drums

Production

* Mack McCormick,

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– producer

References

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