''Smokes Like Lightning'' is an album by the blues musician

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, recorded in Texas in 1962 and released on the

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Reception

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reviewer Greg Adams stated: " A brief and uneven album, ''Smokes Like Lightnin is less compelling than Hopkins' '50s recordings, but strikes an appealingly lazy acoustic groove". ''

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'' said "the quality of Lightnin's performances is variable".

Track listing

All compositions by Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins # "T-Model Blues" – 2:46 # "Jackstropper Blues" – 3:22 # "You Cook All Right" – 4:15 # "My Black Name" – 3:56 # "You Never Miss Your Water" – 2:36 # "Let's Do the Susie-Q" – 3:39 # "Ida Mae" – 5:26 # "Smokes Like Lightning" – 5:13 # "Prison Farm Blues" – 4:30

Personnel

Performance

– guitar, vocals *

Billy Bizor Billy Bizor (September 3, 1913 – April 5, 1969) was an American Texas blues harmonicist, singer and songwriter. He was musically associated with his cousin Lightnin' Hopkins, on some of whose 1960s albums Bizor played harmonica and sang back ...

– harmonica, vocals (tracks 4 & 7) *

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– piano (track 9) *Donald Cooks –

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(track 9) *Spider Kilpatrick – drums (tracks 4, 7 & 9)

Production

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References

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