{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2021}} {{Infobox album | name = Smokes Like Lightning | type = Album | artist = Lightnin' Hopkins | cover = Smokes Like Lightning.jpg | alt = | released = 1963 | recorded = January and February 17 & 20, 1962 | venue = | studio = Gold Star (Houston, Texas) | genre = Blues | length = 36:24 | label = Bluesville<br />{{small|BVLP 1070}} | producer = Mack McCormick | chronology = Lightnin' Hopkins | prev_title = Lightnin' and Co. | prev_year = 1962 | next_title = Lightnin' Strikes | next_year = 1962 }}
'''''Smokes Like Lightning''''' is an album by the blues musician Lightnin' Hopkins, recorded in Texas in 1962 and released on the Bluesville label the following year.<ref>[https://www.jazzdisco.org/prestige-records/catalog-bluesville-1000-series/#bvlp-1070 Jazzdisco: Prestige Records Catalog: Bluesville 1000 series] accessed November 6, 2018</ref><ref>[https://www.bsnpubs.com/fantasy/bluesville/bluesville.html Both Sides Now: Prestige/Bluesville Album Discography] accessed November 6, 2018</ref><ref>[https://www.wirz.de/music/hopkins.htm Wirz' American Music: Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins discography] accessed November 6, 2018</ref>
==Reception== {{Album ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{rating|2.5|5}}<ref name="AllMusic" /> | rev2 = ''The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings'' | rev2Score = {{rating|3|4}}<ref name="Penguin Guide" /> }} AllMusic reviewer Greg Adams stated: " A brief and uneven album, ''Smokes Like Lightnin''' is less compelling than Hopkins' '50s recordings, but strikes an appealingly lazy acoustic groove".<ref name="AllMusic">{{AllMusic|first=Greg |last=Adams |class=album |id=mw0000093020 |title= Lightnin' Hopkins: ''Smokes Like Lightning'' – Review |accessdate= November 6, 2018}}</ref> ''The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings'' said "the quality of Lightnin's performances is variable".<ref name="Penguin Guide">{{cite book|last = Russell|first = Tony|author2= Smith, Chris|title = The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings|year = 2006|publisher = Penguin|location = London|isbn = 978-0-140-51384-4|pages = 279–80}}</ref>
==Track listing== All compositions by Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins # "T-Model Blues" – 2:46 # "Jackstropper Blues" – 3:22 # "You Cook All Right" – 4:15 # "My Black Name" – 3:56 # "You Never Miss Your Water" – 2:36 # "Let's Do the Susie-Q" – 3:39 # "Ida Mae" – 5:26 # "Smokes Like Lightning" – 5:13 # "Prison Farm Blues" – 4:30
==Personnel== ===Performance=== *Lightnin' Hopkins – guitar, vocals *Billy Bizor – harmonica, vocals (tracks 4 & 7) *Buster Pickens – piano (track 9) *Donald Cooks – bass (track 9) *Spider Kilpatrick – drums (tracks 4, 7 & 9)
===Production=== * Mack McCormick – supervision
==References== {{Reflist}} {{Lightnin' Hopkins}} {{Authority control}}
Category:Lightnin' Hopkins albums Category:1963 albums Category:Bluesville Records albums