Cast: Lightnin' Hopkins

Direction Les Blank

Cast Lightnin' Hopkins

Plot A portrait of the great Texas bluesman, 'Lightnin' Hopkins. The film includes interviews and a performance by Hopkins.

Direction Les Blank

Cast Lightnin' Hopkins

Plot Hopkins made up this song and performed it for Les Blank after deciding to make the documentary The Blues Accordin' to Lightnin' Hopkins.

Direction Les Blank · Skip Gerson

Cast Lightnin' Hopkins

Plot A lyrical recreation of Lightnin’ Hopkins’ decision at age eight to stop chopping cotton and start singing for a living. Folklorist/Ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax called Blank’s stunning and elegiac short on...