WILL KIMBROUGH Award-Winning Guitarist: “Lick Of The Day” Sam Lightnin’ Hopkins (9/1/2010)

WILL KIMBROUGH Award-Winning Guitarist & AMA Nominee for Instrumentalist of the Year! This week focusing on Texas bluesman Sam “Lightnin'” Hopkins. His distinctive fingerstyle often included playing, in effect, bass, rhythm, lead, percussion, and vocals, all at the same time.

Watch Will Kimbrough’s weekly “Lick Of The Day” series featuring a new video post EVERY WEDNESDAY on YouTube.

Dubbed an “Alien” performer as a way to explain his masterful performance on the guitar, Kimbrough was recognized in 2004 as the “Instrumentalist of the Year” by the Americana Music Association — an award that had previously been awarded three years in a row to Dobro ace Jerry Douglas.

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