L'album "Blues in My Bottle" de Lightnin' Hopkins est une plongée brute et sans artifice dans l’essence même du blues texan. Enregistré au début des années 1960 pour le label Bluesville, cet album capture Hopkins dans sa forme la plus pure, seul avec sa guitare, sa voix et son sens unique du récit.

Ici, pas de groupe ni d’arrangements sophistiqués, seulement un homme et son instrument. Hopkins tisse simultanément lignes de basse, rythmiques et phrases mélodiques avec une liberté totale, accompagnant des paroles improvisées, souvent introspectives, parfois mordantes, toujours authentiques.

Chaque morceau semble naître sur l’instant, porté par un groove souple et une voix habitée. Blues in My Bottle n’est pas seulement un album, c’est une expérience intime, presque confidentielle, qui place l’auditeur face à l’un des plus grands conteurs du blues.

- Lightnin' Hopkins "Blues In My Bottle" !
- The Bluesville Series from Craft Recordings and Acoustic Sounds !
- Inspired by the original Prestige label imprint established in 1959 !
- All-analog mastering by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab at Blue Heaven Studios !
- 180 gram vinyl pressed at Quality Record Pressings !
- Highlighting trailblazing blues musicians from legendary labels !

This 1961 solo acoustic album by Lightnin' Hopkins features the legend at his finest. Showcasing Hopkins' guitar and vocals, Blues in My Bottle shines a spotlight on his blues mastery. The album contains Hopkins' performances of originals, traditional standards, and renditions of covers. This edition is pressed on 180 gram vinyl at QRP and features (AAA) remastered from the original tapes cut by Matthew Lutthans at The Mastering Lab.

Besides such blues standard as "Wine Spodee-O-Dee", "Business in the Bottle", and "Catfish Blues", the album contains several biographical originals, including "Beans, Beans, Beans", and "D-7".

Samuel John "Lightnin'" Hopkins was a Texas Country bluesman of the highest caliber. In 2010, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him N° 71 on its list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. He influenced a generation of blues and country musicians from Stevie Ray Vaughan to Hank Williams Jr., while being coined "the embodiment of the jazz-and-poetry spirit" by musicologist Robert McCormick.

His distinctive finger-style technique included playing bass, rhythm, lead, and percussion at the same time, tapping or slapping the body of his guitar for rhythmic accompaniment.