John Lee Hooker ~ Lightnin Hopkins - Hard times

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Album: Blue On Blues (2002)

John Lee Hooker (c. August 22, 1912 – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. The son of a sharecropper, he rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-style adaptation of Delta blues. Hooker often incorporated other elements, including talking blues and early North Mississippi Hill country blues. He developed his own driving-rhythm boogie style, distinct from the 1930s–1940s piano-derived boogie-woogie.
Some of his best known songs include "Boogie Chillen'" (1948), "Crawling King Snake" (1949), "Dimples" (1956), "Boom Boom" (1962), and "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" (1966). Several of his later albums, including The Healer (1989), Mr. Lucky (1991), Chill Out (1995), and Don't Look Back (1997), were album chart successes in the U.S. and U.K., and Don't Look Back won a Grammy Award in 1998.

Discography:
Charting Singles:
1949 "Boogie Chillen'" / "Sally May"
1949 "Hobo Blues" / "Hoogie Boogie"
1949 "Crawlin' King Snake" / "Drifting from Door to Door"
1950 "Huckle Up Baby" / "Canal Street Blues"
1951 "I’m in the Mood" / "How Can You Do It"
1958 "I Love You Honey" / "You’ve Taken My Woman"
1960 "No Shoes" / "Solid Sender"
1962 "Boom Boom" / "Drug Store Woman"
1964 "Dimples" / "I'm Leaving''
1992 "Boom Boom" / "Homework"
1993 "Boogie at Russian Hill" / "The Blues Will Never Die"
1993 "Gloria" (remake)/ "It Must Be You"
1995 "Chill Out (Things Gonna Change)"/"Tupelo" (remake)
1998 "Baby Lee" (remake) / "Cuttin' Out" (remake) /
"No Substitute''

Charting albums:
1967 House of the Blues
1971 Hooker 'n Heat
1972 Never Get Out of These Blues Alive
1989 The Healer
1991 Mr. Lucky
1995 Chill Out
1997 Don't Look Back
1998 The Best of Friends
2002 Winning Combinations: John Lee Hooker & Muddy
Waters
2004 Face to Face
2007 Hooker (box set)
2015 Two Sides of John Lee Hooker

Samuel John "Lightnin'" Hopkins (March 15, 1912 – 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".

Discography:
~Lightnin' and the Blues 1955
~Lightnin' Hopkins Strums the Blues 1959
~Lightnin' Hopkins 1959
~Country Blues 1960
~Last Night Blues 1960
~Lightnin' 1960
~Lightnin' in New York 1960
~Autobiography in Blues 1961
~Blues in My Bottle 1961
~Walkin' This Road By Myself 1962
~Mojo Hand 1962
~Lightnin' and Co. 1962
~Lightnin' Strikes 1962
~Blues Hoot, with Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, and Big Joe
Williams
~Smokes Like Lightnin' 1963
~Goin' Away 1963
~Down Home Blues 1964
~Coffee House Blues, with Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee 1964
~Hootin' the Blues 1965
~Lightnin' Strikes 1965
~The Roots of Lightnin' Hopkins 1965
~Soul Blues 1966
~My Life in the Blues 1967
~Original Folk Blues , 1967
~Lightnin'! 1967
~Freeform Patterns 1968
~California Mudslide (and Earthquake) 1969
~Swarthmore Concert Live, 1964, 1991
~Sittin' In with Lightnin' Hopkins 1991
~The Hopkins Bros., with his brothers Joel and John Henry 1991
~The Complete Aladdin Recordings 1991
~Lonesome Life 1992
~It's a Sin to Be Rich 1992
~Mojo Hand: The Lightnin' Hopkins Anthology 1993
~Texas Blues 1994
~Po' Lightning, 1995
~The Very Best of Lightnin' Hopkins 1999
~Dirty House Blues 2012