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A1	I'm Going To Build Me A Heaven Of My Own Written-By – Lightnin' Hopkins	5:40
A2	My Babe Written-By – Dixon*	3:20
A3	Too Many Drivers Written-By – Lightnin' Hopkins	3:30
A4	I'm A Crawlin' Black Snake Written-By – Lightnin' Hopkins	4:50
A5	Rocky Mountain Blues Written-By – Lightnin' Hopkins	3:50
B1	I Mean Goodbye Written-By – Lightnin' Hopkins	3:00
B2	The Howling Wolf Written-By – Lightnin' Hopkins	3:50
B3	Black Ghost Blues Written-By – Lightnin' Hopkins	3:30
B4	Darling, Do You Remember Me? Written-By – Lightnin' Hopkins	3:40
B5	Lonesome Graveyard Written-By – Lightnin' Hopkins	5:30

Companies, etc.

• Recorded At – Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
• Copyright (c) – Analogue Productions
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Analogue Productions
• Remastered At – Sterling Sound
• Pressed By – Quality Record Pressings

Credits

• Artwork – Dan Sinclair
• Bass – Leonard Gaskin (tracks: A1 to A3, A5 to B3, B5)
• Design – Don Schlitten
• Drums – Herbie Lovelle (tracks: A1 to A3, A5 to B3, B5)
• Guitar, Vocals – Lightnin' Hopkins
• Liner Notes – Chris Albertson
• Recorded By [Recording] – Rudy Van Gelder
• Recording Supervisor [Supervision] – Ozzie Cadena
• Remastered By – Ryan Smith

Notes

Recording Date: Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, May 4 & 5, 1964.

From Acoustic Sounds

This release of Lightnin' Hopkins Soul Blues completes the series of 25 Prestige label stereo reissues from Analogue Productions. Of the 50 titles (25 stereo, 25 mono) in this reissue series, 49 of them were mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio from the original analog tape. For Soul Blues Ryan Smith at Sterling Sound created a 24/192K hi-res file from a needle drop on a clean original LP.

This was done because the tape supplied for mastering proved to be from a needle drop itself, not the original, which has been lost since the early 1970s. Smith took the original LP, did a new needle drop and meticulously worked to eliminate the minimal tics and pops that remained. Then he mastered the album for LP and SACD from the hi-res file.

"We are amazed by the quality," says Chad Kassem, Acoustic Sounds/Analogue Productions CEO. "Now that the tape is lost, an original LP copy is now the master. Only in cases where the original master tape is lost or damaged and where we feel that we have no other choice, do we consider using the best source that remains. But we'd only do that if that source was sonically worth it. In this case, it most definitely is."

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode: 753088737718

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
PR 7377, 7377	Lightnin' Hopkins	Soul Blues ‎(LP, Album, Mono)	Prestige, Prestige	PR 7377, 7377	US	1965
PR 7377, AA 023	Lightnin' Hopkins	Soul Blues ‎(LP, Album)	Prestige, Alto Analogue	PR 7377, AA 023	Germany	2001
HBS 8014	Lightnin' Hopkins	Soul Blues ‎(LP, Album, RE)	Prestige	HBS 8014	Italy	1982
OBC-540, P-7377	Lightnin' Hopkins	Soul Blues ‎(LP, Album, RE, RM)	Original Blues Classics, Prestige	OBC-540, P-7377	US	1991
00025218054027	Lightnin' Hopkins	Soul Blues ‎(CD, Album, RE, RM)	Original Blues Classics, Prestige	00025218054027	Europe	2006