Sam John Hopkins aka Lightnin’ Hopkins in my mind, was and always will be THE greatest blues singer ever, and quite possibly one of the greatest guitarists ever.

He sang and wrote about pain in a way that most wish they could. Don’t believe me? Watch this :

Mind-blowing right? Music doesn not have this amount of emotion anymore. There’s no despair like this, and it’s missing. It is needed. Of course we want to hear happy songs, but you need the balance. With extreme awful happy shit you find in Pop music, you need something at the opposite end. The Blues. The Blues is a genre of music that I grew up on, amongst a few others. Punk and the Blues are the two that I always remember hearing a lot of. My music taste is highly influenced by my mum, stepdad and uncle. I do believe I had the best upbringing based on always hearing Morrissey, Lou Reed, Miles Davis and Jefferson Airplane in the house.

Lightnin’ Hopkins sings the pains of having you heart torn out better than most.