Legendary Lightnin` Hopkins

Born in Centerville, Texas, Hopkins learned the blues when young in Buffalo, Texas from Blind Lemon Jefferson and his older cousin, country-blues singer Alger 'Texas' Alexander.
By the mid-1920s Sam had started jumping trains, shooting dice, and playing the blues anywhere he could.
Hopkins recorded and appeared on more than eighty-five albums for an incredible variety of labels, and toured around the world. But after a 1970 car crash, many of the concerts he performed were on his front porch or at a bar near his house.
In 1980 Lightnin’ Hopkins was inducted into The Blues Foundation Hall of Fame.

Hopkins died of cancer on January 30, 1982