Po' Lightnin'
| Po' Lightnin' | ||||
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| Released | 1983 | |||
| Recorded | November 26, 1961, and May 20, 1969 (Original LP) | |||
| Studio | Sierra Sound Laboratories, Berkeley, CA | |||
| Genre | Blues | |||
| Length | 40:37 (Original LP) | |||
| Label | Arhooolie 1087 | |||
| Producer | Chris Strachwitz | |||
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Po' Lightnin' is an album by blues musician Lightnin' Hopkins recorded in California in 1969 (with two tracks from 1961) and originally released on the Arhoolie label in 1983.
The original LP featured tracks which were first released as Lightnin'! by Poppy Records in 1969. The label failed to meet the terms of its agreement and a legal dispute ensued. By 1982, a California court ruled that all rights should revert to Hopkins, and Strachwitz released eight tracks from the sessions, along with two unreleased tracks from the 1961 Lightnin' Sam Hopkins sessions on Arhoolie as Po' Lightnin' in 1983.
In 1993 Arhoolie, through Smithsonian Folkways, reissued the 1969 Lightnin'! recordings on CD and then, confusingly, in 1995 released a CD compilation titled Po' Lightnin' which included tracks from the Arhoolie albums; Lightnin' Sam Hopkins, Lightning Hopkins in Berkeley and other blues compilations along with four previously unreleased recordings.