{"product_id":"lightnin-hopkins-the-rooster-crowed-in-england-spain-import","title":"Lightnin' Hopkins - The Rooster Crowed in England [Spain Import]","description":"\u003cp\u003eLightnin' Hopkins greets his British fans on The Rooster Crowed in England, a 1959 session reissued here as a limited 180-gram Spanish import with two bonus tracks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the end of the 1950s, the Houston bluesman was being rediscovered by a new audience of folk and blues enthusiasts, many of them across the Atlantic. This record was made a few years before his first trip to Britain, yet it plays like a letter addressed to those listeners, opening with the spoken \"Hello England!\" and later tipping its hat with \"Blues for Queen Elizabeth\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is Hopkins in close-up, his voice and guitar front and centre. His style alternates needle-sharp single-note runs with thumping bass lines and the odd slap on the guitar's body for percussion. \"Beggin' Up and Down the Streets\" is pure hard-luck storytelling, \"Have You Ever Seen a One-Eyed Woman Cry?\" mixes humour with heartache, and \"Children's Boogie\" shows just how much rhythm one man could summon on his own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe bonus tracks, \"Bring Me My Shotgun\" and \"Back to New Orleans\", stretch the set further while keeping its raw, conversational feel intact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor anyone tracing the line from Texas country blues to the British blues boom of the 1960s, this is a fascinating and very human record, as direct and witty as the man himself.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67757779845410,"sku":"8436563186868","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1020\/2080\/8994\/files\/Lightnin_Hopkins-The_Rooster_Crowed_in_England_Spain_Import.jpg?v=1794291576","url":"https:\/\/soulfulvinyl.com\/products\/lightnin-hopkins-the-rooster-crowed-in-england-spain-import","provider":"Soulful Vinyl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}