Description
Release Date: 1997
Label: Hip-O Records
Track List
1. I’m A King Bee
2. I’ve Got Love If You Want It
3. Wonderin’ And Worryin’
4. You’ll Be Sorry One Day
5. Strange Love
6. Bobby Sox Baby
7. One More Day
8. Rainin’ In My heart
9. Blues Hangover
10. Buzzin’
11. Still Rainin’ In My Heart
12. Snoopin’ Around
13. Te Ni Nee Ni Nu
14. Tip On In, Part 1
15. Shake Your Hips
16. Baby, Scratch My Back
Notes
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. There have been many Slim Harpo best-ofs available over the years, some frustratingly incomplete. This one gets all the chart hits together with several of the obscure singles like “Wonderin’ and Worryin’,” “Strange Love,” “One More Day,” and “You’ll Be Sorry One Day,” along with album tracks like “Snoopin’ Around” and “Blues Hangover.” Transfers are clean and exemplary, and this makes as good an introduction into his music as any currently available.
