1955 Lightnin' and the Blues (Herald),
1959 Lightnin' Hopkins Strums the Blues (Score) Lightnin' Hopkins (Folkways)
1960 Country Blues (Tradition Records) Last Night Blues (Bluesville), Lightnin' (Bluesville) Lightnin' in New York (Candid)
1961 Autobiography in Blues (Tradition) Blues in My Bottle (Bluesville)
1962 Walkin' This Road By Myself (Bluesville) Mojo Hand (Fire) Lightnin' and Co. (Bluesville) Lightnin' Strikes (Vee-Jay)
1963 Blues Hoot, with Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee, and Big Joe Williams, recorded live at The Ash Grove, 1961 (Vee-Jay) Smokes Like Lightnin' (Bluesville) Goin' Away (Bluesville)
1964 Down Home Blues (Bluesville) Coffee House Blues, with Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee (VJ),
1965 Hootin' the Blues (Bluesville) Lightnin' Strikes (Tradition) The Roots of Lightnin' Hopkins (Verve Folkways),
1966 Soul Blues (Bluesville)
1967 My Life in the Blues (Bluesville) Original Folk Blues (Kents) Lightnin'! (Arhoolie)
1968 Freeform Patterns (International Artists)
1969 California Mudslide (and Earthquake) (Vault)