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Lightnin' Charlie The Travelin'
Troubadour
LC at the ACMA's Pickin' Porch
10/26/06 Bristol, TN/VA
compliments of David Crigger/Bristol Herald
Courier
compliments of Rick Rouse

Me and my presidential choice for
1976
The Lightnins (Beth and Charlie)
rockin' the gospel
LC's Lincoln Limo tag says it all...C'mon get rhythm
Little Chicago Blues Festival (2006)

Billy Crawford,
Harmonica Todd, Keith Chinault, Lightnin' Charlie, Charlie
Aesque, Barrelhouse Chuck

LC with Fountain Of Life Bible Church
Pastor Vic Young and drummer "Frog" Nelms
Freedom Hall Civic Center, Johnson City, TN 2-1-09

Rockin' The Rhythm & Roots Reunion 2006
11-year old Lightnin'
Charlie
winning his junior high school's
"Nifty Fifties" Contest
 
photos compliments of Lee Harrelson

LC and the Upsetters headlining the BMW MOA International Rally,
Gray, TN, July 16, 2009

LC at the Pickin' Porch 7/5/07 photos by Rick
Rouse
Teddy Helton joins LC at the Pickin'
Porch 7/5/07

LC with Stars and Stripes - July 4th, 2008 Jonesborough, TN

LC at the Historic Barter Theatre in
Abingdon, VA December 2007
performing at the Annual Community Christmas Concert
photos courtesy of Jennifer Ferreira

Bald Is Beautiful Baby!

2005 Marquee Magazine photo shoot
LC in headdress,
Halloween 2004
2005 Marquee
Magazine photo shoot
compliments of John Edwards
compliments of Gary Cooper
(really!!!)
compliments of John Edwards

A valentine from my friend and
Lightnin' Bug Bracken

My
Twin Brother (Of Different Mothers)
Harmonica Todd Levine (HT)

HT at
the 2007 Chicago Blues Festival

Kim Wilson (Fabulous Thunderbirds) &
HT
Barrelhouse Chuck
at Buddy Guy's Legends, Chicago, IL

Barrelhouse
Chuck and Harmonica Todd
Bogota (Columbia, South America 2009)


Lightnin' Charlie w/Chuck "Honeyboy"
Pearson on drums (1992)

Me at 17...do I look like a televangelist?

LC
(1994)
LC at ACMA's Birthplace Of Country Music
Getting a little help from my friends
compliments of Mary Ann Zotto
Pickin' Porch Stage 12/13/07
compliments of Chris Rector

Me - obviously digging the new fall
programming of
1964
At home in Maitland, Florida 1965

No caption
necessary
Don't Touch That Dial! sessions
Classic Recording Studio, Bristol, Virginia 1997

Happily signing my new book
"OFF THE RECORD ~ The Trials And Tribulations Of A Travelin'
Troubadour"


Music On The Square, Jonesborough,
Tennessee, August 2007
with George Hammonds (Bass), Joe Dean (Drums)

LC and the beloved George Hammonds,
September 2007, Renaissance Center, Kingsport, TN

George's Last Show - Bristol, Tennessee,
September 2007

HT & LC at George Hammonds Memorial,
October 2007

Katherine
McPhee and Lightnin'
Charlie
Taylor Hicks (leering at my wife), Beth, and Chris Daughtry
American Idol Final Four (Season 5) backyard at Graceland,
Memphis, TN 2006


Lightnin' mugging and hugging his
"number one"
LC & Mannequin Cowgirl (a fan)

LCU 2007 (Lightnin' Charlie, Chris Carroll
and Joe Dean)

My first real-cool ride...a 1968 purple
Schwinn Stingray
now all I want for Christmas is my two front teeth...

The
Money Shot
Don't Touch That Dial! photo shoot 1997
(this is pre-photoshop - them's real dead presidents!)

LC playing a cut 'n' stab crime scene in
High Point, NC
surrounded by Police tape ("Do Not Cross")
what a way to make a living...
Beth and
Lightnin' Charlie with the Gaither Homecoming Gang
 
Beth and Russ Taff
Lynda Randle and Charlie
 
The Great Jake Hess and
Charlie
Jessy Dixon and Charlie
 
The Isaacs and Lightnin'
Charlie
Gordon Mote and Lightnin' Charlie
 
Beth
and Guy Penrod
Beth and David Phelps
 
Lightnin' and Sonya
Isaacs
Jeff Easter and
LC
Beth and Wes Hampton
  
Ernie Haase and
Beth
The Booth Brothers with
Beth
The Booth Brothers and Baldy (me!)

LCU 1995 (Mark Ryalls and Leroy Kopp)
Arty Lightnin' Charlie

LC (Little Chip) that's me making a
perfect F-chord 1966

LC & friends in Lightnin's '66
Cadillac Coupe DeVille




Singin', slidin', and smilin' away the Old Year at The
Cranberry Thistle, Jonesborough, TN, December 29, 2007 (photos
compliments of Charlie Sorrell)
LC at UMOJA ("Unity")
Celebration Of Culture Concert
Science Hill High School, Johnson City, TN 4/12/08

My mother and bible 1943

LC at Soberfest, Bristol, Tennessee
10/25/08

Sittin' in with The Thunderheads at
Soberfest
(Carnell Cross, drums; Billy Crawford, guitar; Charlie Aesque,
bass)

LC & The Thunderheads (joined by an
up-and-coming guitarist: Billy Crawford's son Tyler)

Guitars, Cadillacs, Hillbilly Music

Baby Lightnin' sporting 1962's Most
Promising Hairstyle


Mister
Clean
LC getting down (to my wife's
level...)


Beth & LC at Rhythm & Roots
Reunion, Bristol, TN/VA, September 2007

LC
showing folks what he does best of all
...sit down !!!
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