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Cat. No. BCD 17129: SLIM HARPO ~ ROCKS. BEAR FAMILY BCD 17129. (IMPORT).

Cat. No. BCD 17129: SLIM HARPO ~ ROCKS. BEAR FAMILY BCD 17129. (IMPORT).

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SLIM HARPO (JAMES MOORE) WAS A HARMONICA PLAYER BORN IN LOBDEL, LOUISIANA. HE TAUGHT HIMSELF THE BASICS OF THE HARMONICA BY LISTENING TO THE RECORDS OF MUDDY WATERS, JIMMY REED AND LITTLE WALTER. HE INITIALLY USED THE ALIAS ‘HARMONICA SLIM’ WHICH HE USED UNTIL HIS FIRST RECORD WAS RELEASED. WHEN IT CAME TIME TO RELEASE HIS FIRST SINGLE IN 1957 IT BECAME KNOWN THAT THERE WAS ALREADY ANOTHER HARMONICA SLIM RECORDING ON THE WEST COAST. SLIM’S WIFE, LOVELL, IS CREDITED WITH USING THE SLANG WORD FOR HARMONICA AND ADDING AN ‘O’ TO IT AND HENCE THAT WAS THE NAME HE USED FOR THE REST OF HIS RECORDING CAREER.

WHILE SLIM HARPO WAS LOUISIANA’S MOST SUCCESSFUL AND CELEBRATED BLUES ARTIST OF ALL TIME, HE MOST DEFINITELY COULD ROCK. NEXT TO JIMMY REED, COMMERCIALLY, HE WAS THE MOST SUCCESSFUL DOWN HOME BLUES ARTIST OF THE 1960s, AND THE ARTIST WHO BEST EPITOMISED LOUISIANA’S UNIQUE ‘SOUND OF THE SWAMP’. HE WAS ONE OF THE TOUGHEST BLUES ARTISTS OF HIS GENERATION, BUT HE WAS ALSO COMFORTABLE EMBRACING ROCK’N’ROLL, POP AND EVEN COUNTRY MUSIC. BEAR FAMILY HAS CHERRY-PICKED SOME OF THE BEST OF HIS EXCELLO RECORDS MATERIAL RECORDED BETWEEN 1957 AND 1969, THE BULK OF THESE TITLES WERE RECORDED AT JAY MILLER’S LEGENDARY STUDIO IN CROWLEY, LOUISIANA. GREAT ROCKIN’ BLUES ******

TRACK LISTING: Wild About My Baby / I Got Love If You Want It (1957) / I’m A King Bee (1957) / You’ll Be Sorry One Day (1959) / That Ain’t Your Business / Buzz Me Babe (1960) / My Little Queen Bee (Got A Brand New King) / I’m Waiting On You Baby / Something Inside Me / Bobby-Sox Baby / I Need Money (Keep Your Alibis) / Yah Yeah Baby / Shake Your Hips / Harpo’s Blues / Don’t Start Cryin’ Now (1961) / Boogie Chillun / Baby, Scratch My Back / Buzzin’ (instrumental) / Hey Little Lee / The Music’s Hot / Wondering And Worryin’ / Late Last Night / That’s Alright (aka, You’ll Be Sorry One Day) (1976) / That’s Alright Baby (aka, Don’t Start Cryin’ Now) (1993) / Cigarettes / Buzz Me Babe (1993) / I’m A King Bee (1976) / You Ain’t Never Had To Cry / I Got Love If You Want It (1980) / Wondering And Worryin’ / Rainin’ In My Heart.

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