Editing Lightnin' Hopkins (section)

==Discography==
===Early compilations of previously issued material===
*''[[Early Recordings (Lightnin' Hopkins album)|Early Recordings]]'' ([[Arhoolie Records|Arhoolie]], 1946-50 [1969]) - collection of [[Gold Star Records|Gold Star]] recordings
*''[[Early Recordings Vol. 2]]'' (Arhoolie, 1946-50 [1971]) - collection of Gold Star releases
*''[[Lightnin' Hopkins Strums the Blues]]'' ([[Aladdin Records|Score]], 1946-48 [1958])  - collection of [[Aladdin Records|Aladdin]] releases
*''[[Lightning Hopkins Sings the Blues]]'' ([[Crown Records|Crown]], 1947-1951 [1961]) - collection of [[RPM Records (United States)|RPM]] releases
*''[[Last of the Great Blues Singers]]'' (Time, 1950-51 [1960]) - collection of [[Sittin' in With]] releases
*''[[Lightnin' and the Blues]]'' ([[Herald Records|Herald]], 1954 [1960]) - collection of [[Herald Records|Herald]] releases<ref name="Wirz"/>

===Original LP releases===
*''[[The Rooster Crowed in England]]'' (77, 1959 [1960])
*''[[Lightnin' Hopkins (album)|Lightnin' Hopkins]]'' ([[Folkways Records|Folkways]], 1959) - reissued as ''The Roots of Lightnin' Hopkins''
*''[[Country Blues]]'' ([[Tradition Records|Tradition]], 1959)
*''[[Autobiography in Blues]]'' (Tradition, 1960)
*''[[Down South Summit Meetin']]'' ([[Pacific Jazz Records|World Pacific]], 1960) with [[Brownie McGhee]], [[Big Joe Williams]] and [[Sonny Terry]] - reissued as ''Summit Meetin' ''
*''[[Last Night Blues]]'' ([[Bluesville Records|Bluesville]], 1960) with Sonny Terry
*''[[Lightnin' (album)|Lightnin']]'' (Bluesville, 1960)
*''[[Lightnin' in New York]]'' ([[Candid Records|Candid]], 1960)
*''[[Mojo Hand]]'' ([[Fire Records|Fire]], 1960 [1962])
*''[[Blues in My Bottle]]'' (Bluesville, 1961)
*''[[Blues Hoot]]'' ([[Horizon Records|Horizon]], 1961 [1963]) with Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry - reissued as ''Coffee House Blues''
*''[[On Stage (Lightnin' Hopkins album)|On Stage]]'' ([[Imperial Records]],[1962]) reissued Dolchess 2013
*''[[Lightnin' Sam Hopkins]]'' (Arhoolie, 1962)
*''[[Walkin' This Road by Myself]]'' (Bluesville, 1962)
*''[[Lightnin' and Co.]]'' (Bluesville, 1962)
*''[[Smokes Like Lightning]]'' (Bluesville, 1962 [1963])
*''[[Lightnin' Strikes (Vee-Jay album)|Lightnin' Strikes]]'' ([[Vee-Jay Records|Vee-Jay]], 1962)
*''[[Hootin' the Blues]]'' ([[Prestige Records|Prestige Folklore]], 1962 [1965])
*''[[Goin' Away]]'' (Bluesville, 1963)
*''[[The Swarthmore Concert]]'' (Prestige, 1964 [1993])
*''[[Down Home Blues (Lightnin' Hopkins album)|Down Home Blues]]'' (Bluesville, 1964)
*''[[Soul Blues (album)|Soul Blues]]'' ([[Prestige Records|Prestige]], 1964 [1965])
*''[[Lightning Hopkins with His Brothers Joel and John Henry / with Barbara Dane]]'' (Arhoolie, 1964 [1966])
*''[[My Life in the Blues]]'' (Prestige, 1964 [1965])
*''[[Live at the Bird Lounge]]'' (Guest Star, 1964)
*''[[The King of the Blues]]'' ([[Pickwick Records|Pickwick]], 1965) - reissued as ''Let's Work Awhile''
*''[[Blue Lightnin']]'' ([[Jewel Records (Shreveport record label)|Jewel]], 1965 [1967])
*''[[Live at Newport (Lightnin' Hopkins album)|Live at Newport]]'' ([[Vanguard Records|Vanguard]], 1965 [2002])
*''[[Lightnin' Strikes (Verve Folkways album)|Lightnin' Strikes]]'' ([[Verve Forecast Records|Verve Folkways]], 1965 [1966]) - reissued as ''Nothin' But the Blues''
*''[[Something Blue (Lightnin' Hopkins album)|Something Blue]]'' ([[Verve Forecast Records|Verve Folkways]], 1967)
*''Thats My Story'' ([[Polydor Records|Polydor]], 1965 [1970])
*''Blues Festival Song & Dance'' (Arhoolie, 1967) shared disc with [[Mance Lipscomb]] and [[Clifton Chenier]]
*''[[Texas Blues Man]]'' (Arhoolie, 1967)
*''[[Free Form Patterns]]'' ([[International Artists]], 1968)
*''[[Talkin' Some Sense]]'' (Jewel, 1968)
*''[[Lightnin' Hopkins Strikes Again]]'' (Home Cooking, 1968 [1975])
*''[[The Great Electric Show and Dance]]'' (Jewel, 1969)
*''[[California Mudslide (and Earthquake)]]'' (Vault Records, 1969)
*''[[Lightnin'!]]'' (Poppy, 1969) - rereleased on Arhoolie in 1993
*''[[In the Key of Lightnin']]'' ([[Tomato Records|Tomato]], 1969 [2002])
*''[[Lightning Hopkins in Berkeley]]'' (Arhoolie, 1969 [1970])
*''[[Po' Lightnin']]'' (Arhoolie, 1961/69 [1983])
*''The Legacy of the Blues Vol. 12'' ([[Sonet Records|Sonet]], 1974 [1977])
*''New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival 1976'' ([[Island Records|Island]], 1977) shared disc with various artists 
*''The Rising Sun Collection Vol. 9'' (Just a Memory, 1977 [1996])
*''Mighty Crazy'' (Catfish, 1980 [2002]) shared disc with [[Big Mama Thornton]]
*''The Rising Sun Collection'' (Just a Memory, 1980 [1996]) shared disc with [[Louisiana Red]], Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
*''Forever'' (Paris Album, 1981 [1983])<ref name="Wirz"/>

===As sideman===
'''With [[Sonny Terry]]'''
*''[[Sonny Is King]]'' (Bluesville, 1963)<ref name="Wirz"/>