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Media Type: CD
Artist: HARPO,SLIM
Title: BEST OF SLIM HARPO
Street Release Date: 11/04/1997
Domestic
Genre: BLUES

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(CD with 32-page Booklet) White rock bands couldn't get enough of Slim's atmospheric harmonica and nasal vocals. This is the music which inspired Canned Heat, Them, the Pretty Things and, of course, the Rolling Stones who revived I'm A King Bee and Shake Your Hips. Difficult-to-find selections include Cigarettes (digitally unleashed for the first time) and Slim's craziest rocker, Wild About My Baby. But the big hits are here too; no retrospective would be complete without Baby Scratch My Back and Rainin' In My Heart. Small ensemble electrified country blues that really rocks!

James 'Slim Harpo' Moore (1924 - 1970) crammed a great deal into his 45 years. One of the biggest Southern blues stars of the '50s, he appealed to rockabillies of all generations. Sun artist Warren Smith covered I Got Love If You Want It while Marty Stuart revived Shake Your Hips. Rock 'n' roll collectors embraced Slim's originals and a slew of similarly crisp, pounding rockers on the EXCELLO label. The white blues boom opened new doors for Slim in the mid-to-late '60s but, amongst the soul and psychedelic movements, he still found time to rock 'n' roll.

This collection draws on all phases of Slim's 13 year recording career. As reissues go, his finest up tempo sides are scattered all over the place but this compilation cherry-picks 30 of the best, adding his archetypal swamp blues ballad, Rainin' In My Heart, as a bonus. It's the perfect overview of a largely unheralded rocker.

The earlist recordings by the King Bee bluesman are documented on this 24 track CD with notes from harmonica ace Paul Jones.

This CD is an out of print collectible! It is the original 1989 Rhino release. Catalog R2-70169. There is a drill hole through the spine of the case.

1996 compilation for James Moore from the vaults of the Nashville-based Excello label features 25 tracks recorded between 1967-1969, highlighted by the r&b hits 'Tip On In', 'Tee-Ni-Nee-Ni-Nu', 'I'm Gonna Keep What I've Got' & a cover of Johnny Cash's 'Folsom Prison Blues'. Includes 8-page booklet with liner notes & memorabilia. Ace.

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Out-of-print, 2 cd, 44 track set with 16 MINUTE LIVE segment that's raw and exciting and not available elsewhere in the U.S.! It is on a U.K. Ace CD. Light scuff on Disc 2 will not affect play.