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August 12, 1960. Houston, TX. Producer: Paul Oliver.

Conversation with the Blues
was released (in the United Kingdom only) in 1965.

Note: This various artists LP includes Mance Lipscomb, Buster Pickens, John Lee Hooker, Robert Lockwood, Sunnyland Slim, Otis Spann, J. B. Lenoir, and others.

c. October 1960. Houston, TX.

Vocal/guitar with Luke “Long Gone” Miles, vocal/harmonica; L. C. Williams, vocal/drums

October 14, 1960. Live at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY.

Vocal/acoustic guitar with Pete Seeger, vocal/banjo; Joan Baez, vocal; Bill McAdoo, vocal/probably acoustic guitar; possibly Elizabeth Knight, vocal.

Sing
Out With Pete!
was released in 1961.

Note: The People's Song Library collection in the Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, holds a program of this concert. Curator William Lefevre reports that “the program lists Elizabeth Knight. However, a hand-written note in the records lists the performers and the times they were to perform versus the actual times they performed. Elizabeth Knight is not listed on that note, but Joan Baez is listed as having performed twice.”

October 26, 1960. Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ. Producer: Kenneth Goldstein

Vocal/acoustic guitar with Sonny Terry, vocal*/harmonica; possibly J. C. Burris, harmonica**; Leonard Gaskin, bass; Belton Evans, drums.

Last Night Blues
was released in 1961. It was reissued under the new title
Got to Move Your Baby
c.1964.

Note: According to Chris Smith (in his book That's the Stuff: The Recordings of Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry, Stick McGhee, and J. C. Burris), J. C. Burris—although uncredited on the album sleeve—is the possible harmonica player on the four songs noted above. This is based on Burris's claim to Gérard Herzhaft that he played on some titles at the session and Smith's aural assessment. To compound the confusion, Smith notes that “Hopkins addresses the harp player as ‘J.C.' on ‘Rocky Mountain Blues' and ‘Hard to Love a Woman', but aurally it's Terry on those titles.”

November 9, 1960. Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ. Producer: Kenneth Goldstein

Vocal/acoustic guitar with Leonard Gaskin, bass; Belton Evans, drums.

Lightnin'—The Blues of Lightnin' Hopkins
was released in 1961. It was reissued c.1964.

November 1960. New York, NY. Producer: Bobby Robinson

Vocal/acoustic guitar/piano*; Delmar Donnell, drums; unknown bass; unknown female vocal**.

November 15, 1960. Nola Penthouse Studio, New York, NY. Producer: Nat Hentoff

Lightnin' in New York
was released in 1961.

The Mosaic reissue contains the complete Candid session, including five unissued titles, and was released as a limited-edition box set with Otis Spann's complete Candid sessions.

July 7, 1961; February 17, 1962; February 20, 1962. ACA Recording Studio, 3619 Fannin St.,

Houston, TX. Producer: Mack McCormick

Vocal/acoustic guitar with (collectively) Edwin “Buster” Pickens, piano; Billy Bizor, harmonica; Donald Cooks, bass; Joe “Spider” Kilpatrick, drums.

Walking This Road By Myself was released in 1962.

July 26, 1961. ACA Recording Studio, 3619 Fannin St., Houston, TX. Producers: Mack McCormick and Kenneth Goldstein

August 16, 1961. ACA Recording Studio, 3619 Fannin St., Houston, TX.

Vocal/electric guitar with Elmore Nixon, piano; Robert Ingram, drums; unknown bass.

Note: “The World's in a Tangle” (a retitling of “War Is Starting Again”) on Magnum CD 093 contains an extra verse, and does not fade out, as the Ivory single does.

Probably 1961. Probably Gold Star Studio, 5628 Brock St., Houston, TX.

Vocal/acoustic guitar; separate session* (with electric guitar) with Elmore Nixon, piano; Robert Ingram, drums; unknown bass.

Lightning Strikes
was released in 1962.

Note: Lightning Strikes was probably produced by H. W. “Pappy” Daily and/or Bill Quinn and Lola Cullum. Only the Dart single was initially issued (in 1961); Vee-Jay Records subsequently purchased the master tapes and released the entire session on this album, with the addition of the Ivory single, which was also released prior to the LP (see above).

Reverb was added to all songs on the Vee-Jay LP.

November 26, 1961; December 2, 1961; January 23, 1962. Berkeley, CA., and ACA Recording Studio, 3619 Fannin St., Houston, TX.

Producers: Chris Strachwitz and Mack McCormick (uncredited)

Vocal/electric guitar/piano with Gino Landry, bass; Victor Leonard, drums; Joe “Spider” Kilpatrick, drums*.

Lightnin' Sam Hopkins
was released in November 1962.

Note: A listing of unissued songs from the Berkeley sessions for this LP is not available. Joliet 205 retitled “Once a Gambler.”

November 26, 1961. Berkeley, CA. Producer: Chris Strachwitz.