Mojo Hand: The Life and Music of Lightnin' Hopkins by O'Brien, Timothy J.

Mojo Hand: The Life and Music of Lightnin' Hopkins

In a career that took him from the cotton fields of East Texas to the concert stage...
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Author: Timothy J. O'Brien
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Mojo Hand: The Life and Music of Lightnin' Hopkins by O'Brien, Timothy J.

Mojo Hand: The Life and Music of Lightnin' Hopkins

¥7,886

Mojo Hand: The Life and Music of Lightnin' Hopkins

¥7,886
Author: Timothy J. O'Brien
Format: Paperback
Language: English

In a career that took him from the cotton fields of East Texas to the concert stage at Carnegie Hall and beyond, Lightnin' Hopkins became one of America's greatest bluesmen, renowned for songs whose topics effortlessly ranged from his African American roots to space exploration, the Vietnam War, and lesbianism, performed in a unique, eccentric, and spontaneous style of guitar playing that inspired a whole generation of rock guitarists. Hopkins's music directly and indirectly influenced an amazing range of artists, including Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Tom Waits, and Bob Dylan, as well as bands such as the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and ZZ Top, with whom Hopkins performed.

Mojo Hand follows Lightin' Hopkins's life and music from the acoustic country blues that he began performing in childhood, through the rise of 1950s rock 'n' roll, which nearly derailed his career, to his reinvention and international success as a pioneer of electric folk blues from the 1960s to the 1980s. The authors draw on 130 vivid oral histories, as well as extensive archival and secondary sources, to provide the fullest account available of the development of Hopkins's music; his idiosyncratic business practices, such as shunning professional bookers, managers, and publicists; and his durable and indelible influence on modern roots, blues, rock 'n' roll, singer-songwriter, and folk music. Mojo Hand celebrates the spirit and style, intelligence and wit, and confounding musical mystique of a bluesman who shaped modern American music like no one else.



Author: Timothy J. O'Brien, David Ensminger
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 04/15/2013
Pages: 294
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.80h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9780292762145

About the Author
TIMOTHY J. O'BRIENThe late Timothy J. O'Brien held a Ph. D. in history from the University of Houston, where he studied African American history, social movements, and labor history. His music journalism appeared in Houston Press, Free Press Houston, and Left of the Dial.DAVID ENSMINGEREnsminger is a writer, drummer, teacher, and digital archivist of punk and vernacular culture. He publishes a monthly column on PopMatters.com. His previous books are Left of the Dial: Conversations with Punk Icons and Visual Vitriol: The Street Art and Subcultures of the Punk and Hardcore Generations.


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