Early Recordings Vol. 2

Early Recordings Vol. 2
Compilation album by
Released1971
Recordedlate 1940s
StudioGold Star (Houston, Texas)
GenreBlues
Length44:29
LabelArhoolie
CompilerBill Quinn, Chris Strachwitz
Lightnin' Hopkins chronology
Early Recordings
(1965)
Early Recordings Vol. 2
(1971)
Lightnin' Hopkins Strums the Blues
(1958)

Early Recordings Vol. 2 is an album by blues musician Lightnin' Hopkins featuring tracks recorded at Gold Star Studios in Houston, Texas between 1946 and 1950, thirteen of which were originally released as 10-inch 78rpm records on the Gold Star and Dart labels, along with three others that were previously unissued. Arhoolie reissued The Gold Star Sessions on two CDs through Smithsonian Folkways in 1990.