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February 26, 2013 8:25 AM Daylight Video

By Ed Kilgore

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To kick off the day, here’s Lightnin’ Hopkins performing “C’mon in This House” in 1960. If I’m not mistaken, that’s an impossibly young Joan Baez watching him admiringly.

Ed Kilgore is a contributing writer to the Washington Monthly. He is managing editor for The Democratic Strategist and a senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute. Find him on Twitter: @ed_kilgore.
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  • martin on February 26, 2013 8:39 AM:

    A different YouTube of this clip calling the song Let's Pull A Party identifies here as Joan Baez, so it must be true;> It says it is from a DVD Texas Blues Guitar, which sounds worth checking out.

  • azportsider on February 26, 2013 9:35 AM:

    Suh-weeeet! Made my day, Ed!

  • Anonymous on February 26, 2013 9:50 AM:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightnin%27_Hopkins

    According to Wikipedia Hopkins played with Joan Baez in 1960. So it's most probably her. If not it must be her twin sister.

  • TomParmenter on February 26, 2013 11:23 AM:

    Lightning Hopkins channelling Champion Jack Dupree.

  • buddy66 on February 26, 2013 11:41 AM:

    Yep, that's her. It's not Mimi, her sister, and it's probably during his first California gig at San Francisco's Jazz Workshop (or the place across the street, whose name I forget). Also, Mose Allison was booked there for the preceding two weeks; but he stayed over and accompanied Hopkins on piano, gratis, so as to play with the legendary Texas bluesman.

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