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Singer-songwriter

Lightnin' Hopkins, born John Lee Hopkins, was an influential American blues singer and songwriter. Known for his unique playing style and emotive voice, he had a profound impact on the development of blues music. Hopkins was born on March 15, 1912, and passed away on January 30, 1982.

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Needs Born One Thing Singers

Author:Lightnin' Hopkins

“People have learned how to strum a guitar, but they don't have the soul. They don't feel it from the heart. It hurts me. I'm killin' myself to tell them how it is.”

People Feels Heart Soul Hurt Guitar It Hurts Hurt Me

Author:Lightnin' Hopkins

“So I went ahead and made me a guitar. Igot me a cigar box, I cut me a round hole in the middle of it, takeme a little piece of plank, nailed it onto that cigar box, and I gotme some screen wire and I made me a bridge back there and raised itup high enough that it would sound inside that little box, and got mea tune out of it. I kept my tune and I played from then on.”