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About Best Of: Slim Harpo
Product Description Slim's style of Louisiana blues sounds just as fresh today as it did to the British blues rockers who co-opted it more than 30 years ago. This 16-track CD features Baby, Scratch My Back; Rainin' in My Heart; I'm a King Bee; Te Ni Nee Ni Nu; Tip On In, Part 1; Shake Your Hips , and more from the king of swamp blues. Amazon.com Slim Harpo recorded really good rhythm and blues. He never got too fancy; he never forgot the importance of the groove. He died young in 1970, but his music reached the Rolling Stones (who covered his "I'm a King Bee"), the Kinks (who sang his "I Got Love If You Want It"), Van Morrison, and Them (whose first single was Harpo's "Don't Start Crying Now"). These songs and other greats--"Tip on In," "Baby, Scratch My Back"--are all included in this excellent collection of Harpo's greatest sides. --Robert Gordon Review Harmonica player and singer James "Slim Harpo" Moore patrolled the Louisiana swamplands for the Excello Label from 1957 to 1966, recording slinky, lubricious numbers such as "Baby Scratch My Back" and "I'm a King Bee" (note Fats Perrodin's supernatural bass), which found favor with the Rolling Stones and other young white shapers of blues-dripping rock 'n' roll. This collection has the aforementioned and sixteen more of the grinning iconoclast's wettest and spongiest grooves, including three 1967-70 tunes outside the Excello fold. -- © Frank John Hadley 1993 -- From Grove Press Guide to Blues on CD
