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After fifty years, his Bentonia Blues Festival is still going strong
Texas bluesman Lightnin’ Hopkins (1912-1982) played, sang and lived by his own rules. When a sideman once asked him what key they were playing in, he proclaimed, “the key of Lightnin’ Hopkins!” A protégé of Blind Lemon Jefferson at age 8, he hit the road at a young age, playing juke joints and picnics throughout the South. A stint on a chain gang left some scars, but never slowed him down as he blazed a trail through the blues with his raw, inimitable guitar playing and voice. Like many Black bluesmen, he was “rediscovered” by British rockers and white college kids in the 1960s. ...
Some of the most powerful music to come out of the Southern US has taken on the themes of Gothic art combined with a sense of the weird and grotesque.
The 42-year-old post-punk rocker’s new album “Winter Hill Blues” — named after Winter Hill in Somerville — channels the moody blues of Bentonia, Mississippi, the North Mississippi blues, and sees a bit of Hindustani slide guitar.