Big Mama Thornton & Lightning Hopkins
Big Mama Thornton & Lightning Hopkins
Genres: female vocalist, blues, Classic Blues, traditional blues
BB King - Big Mama Thornton - Muddy Waters
About Big Mama Thornton & Lightning Hopkins
Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton (December 11, 1926 – July 25, 1984) was an American rhythm-and-blues singer and songwriter. She was the first to record Leiber and Stoller's "Hound Dog", in 1952, which became her biggest hit, staying seven weeks at number one on the Billboard R&B chart in 1953 and selling almost two million copies. However, her success was overshadowed three years later, when Elvis Presley recorded his more popular rendition of "Hound Dog". Similarly, Thornton's "Ball 'n' Chain" (written in 1961 but not released until 1968) had a bigger impact when performed and recorded by Janis Joplin in the late 1960s. Read More Here: Wikipedia - Big Mama Thorton Sam John "Lightnin'" Hopkins (March 15, 1911 – January 30, 1982)was an American country blues singer, songwriter, guitarist, and occasional pianist, from Centerville, Texas. Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 71 on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. The musicologist Robert "Mack" McCormick opined that Hopkins is "the embodiment of the jazz-and-poetry spirit, representing its ancient form in the single creator whose words and music are one act". Read More Here: Wikipedia - Lightning Hopkins You can also see each individual artist on Last.fm here: Big Mama Thorton and here: Lightning Hopkins
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