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In the mid-1930s, Hopkins was sent to
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style, but he was a powerful and confident singer. Lyrically, his songs expressed the problems of life in the segregated South, bad luck in love and other subjects common in the blues idiom. He dealt with these subjects with humor and good nature. He often referred to himself as "Po' Lightnin'" in
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The Encyclopedia of Folk, Country & Western Music
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147:Instruments
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1877:Goin' Away
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277:Verve
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