Description
**THIS IS A VINYL LP**
Release Date: 2024
Label: Blues Joint
Track List
Side A
- Buzz Me Babe
- Bobby-Sox Baby
- Don’t Cryin’ Now
- I’m A King Bee
- Cigarettes
- I Got Love If You Want It
- Blues Hangover
- Rainin’ In My Heart
- That Ain’t Your Business
- One Of These Days
Side B
- You’ll Be Sorry One Day
- Strange Love
- Snoopin’ Around
- Wild About My Baby
- What A Dream
- Moody Blues
- Things Gonna Change
- Dream Girl
- My Home Is A Prison
- Something Inside Me
Notes
An outstanding harmonica player and masterful songwriter, with a real knowledge of song structure, Slim Harpo was also a fine guitarist. He developed a slightly nasal vocal delivery that helped to give him a highly personal sound
PERSONNEL & DATES:
- SLIM HARPO – (vocals, guitar & harmonica), plus:
- ON TRACKS A1, A2: The King Bees
- James Johnson, Rudolph Richard (g), T.J. Kitchen (b), Katie Webster or
- Sonny Martin (p), Sammy K. Brown (d).
- Jay Miller Studio, Crowley, Louisiana, December 1959.
- ON TRACKS A3, A7, B5, B8: The King Bees (same as above)
- plus Willie “Tomcat” Parker or Lionel Torrence (ts).
- Jay Miller Studio, Crowley, Louisiana, June 1960.
- ON TRACKS A4, A6, A9-A10, B4, B7:
- Gabriel “Guitar Gable” Perrodin (g), Clinton “Fats” Perrodin (b),
- Tal Miller or Merton Thibodeau (p), Clarence “Jockey” Etienne (d).
- Jay Miller Studio, Crowley, Louisiana, March 1957.
- ON TRACKS A5, B1:
- Gabriel “Guitar Gable” Perrodin (g), Clarence “Jockey”Etienne (d).
- Jay Miller Studio, Crowley, Louisiana, May 1959.
- ON TRACKS A8, B3, B6, B9: The King Bees:
- Same as A1-A2 but add Lazy Lester (2nd hca) and an unidentified sax.
- Jay Miller Studio, Crowley, Louisiana, November 1960.
- ON TRACKS B2:
- Gabriel “Guitar Gable” Perrodin (g), Clinton “Fats” Perrod (b),
- Clarence “Jockey” Etienne or Jerry West (d).
- Jay Miller Studio, Crowley, Louisiana, November 5, 1957.
- ON TRACK B10: The King Bees
- James Johnson, Rudolph Richard (g), Sammy K. Brown (d),
Willie “Tomcat” Parker (ts). - New Orleans, Louisiana, June 27, 1961.
