This is not the complete concert. The <bold> songs in the setlist are included.
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Sam John Hopkins (March 15, 1912 – January 30, 1982), better known as Lightnin’ Hopkins, was an American country blues singer, songwriter, guitarist and occasional pianist, fromHouston, Texas. Rolling Stone magazine included Hopkins at number 71 on their list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.
Musicologist Robert “Mack” McCormick opined that Hopkins “is the embodiment of the jazz-and-poetry spirit, representing its ancient form in the single creator whose words and music are one act”
I came to Lightnin’ Hopkins through Townes Van Zandt and Justin Townes Earle (I guess he discovered him through Townes as well…). I was expecting something ancient, something old, but Hopkins sounds modern and his guitar playing is just out of this world!
Sometimes music hit you so hard you simply do not know what happened, Justin Townes Earle did just that when he covered the relatively unknown song, hell, he ripped through a rousing version of Lightnin’ Hopkins’ My starter won’t start (I been burnin bad gasoline). And suddenly I understood what/why Hopkins was held in as high a regard as he does! It was pure magic! (see own post)
Lightnin’ Hopkins – Baby Please Don’t go:
Continue reading March 15: The Legend Lightnin Hopkins was born in 1912
But only love can break your heart
Try to be sure right from the start
Yes only love can break your heart
What if your world should fall apart?–
… the sublimely lovely songs like “Only Love Can Break Your Heart,” which went into the Top 40 in 1970. And its success probably did not discourage the songwriter from recording the largely acoustic Harvest and its number one single, “Heart of Gold,” a year later. “Only Love Can Break Your Heart” is the sort of song that is at once inimitable in style and yet almost universal in appeal and sentiment — perhaps to the point of seeming trite; the words are sort an update of sort on Tin Pan Alley songs like “You Always Hurt the One You Love,” and the wistful melody feels like it has also been around forever, though one would be hard-pressed to find it somewhere else.
~Bill Janovitz (allmusic.com)
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1. Summertime Blues:
From wolfgangsvault:
The second night of The Who’s first run ever playing at the Fillmore East is an unbelievably great document of the band in its early prime, still full of the punk attitude that they would initially define while beginning to venture off into more artistic and experimental territory. Every minute of this performance is fascinating and much of this material cannot be found, in better quality or at all, on any other Who recordings. This set captures the entire band fully engaged in their music. Although many songs were still short and concise during this stage of their career, the intensity level is undeniable. Opening the show with Eddie Cochran’s “Summertime Blues,” they immediately set a bar that most other bands could never even approach.
2. Fortune Teller
3. Tattoo
4. Little Billy
Continue reading Classic Concert – The Who @ Fillmore East 1968