A lyrical recreation of Lightnin’ Hopkins’ decision at age eight to stop chopping cotton and start singing for a living. Folklorist/Ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax called Blank’s stunning and elegiac short on Hopkins’ reminiscences of his youth “one of the three most important films on the South.”

A film by Les Blank with Skip Gerson
10 Minutes
1969

Related Films:

The Blues Accordin’ To Lightnin’ Hopkins
Mister Charlie
Lightnin’ Hopkins’ Song For Les