The Excello Singles Anthology

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Album Information
  • Artist: Slim Harpo (See All Albums by Slim Harpo)
  • Date Released: Aug 26, 2003

  • Genre: Blues

  • Label: HIP-O

Total Tracks: 44   Total Length: 119:08

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mailman

Many years ago Mick Jagger said they he couldn't understand why anyone preferred listening to him when they could listen to Slim Harpo. He was 100% correct. These are wonderful sides. Get 'em.

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Finally....

regnadkcin

it's about time Slim Harpo was here at emusic... this double CD is a lot of slim but if you listen you may just decide you need it all. All the orginal Excello recordings. A necessary addition to any blues (or rock) collection

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Slim Harpo brought a good bit of the Louisiana swamp vibe with him when he recorded these immortal singles for Jay Miller’s Nashville-based Excello Records in the early ’60s, and the rustic, laconic way these recordings unfold, aided and abetted by Miller’s trademark echo-laden production, makes them singular even inside the Excello stable. This two-disc set has everything essential that Harpo released, including his biggest songs “I’m a King Bee” (and its many variations like “Buzzin’”), the gorgeous “Rainin’ in My Heart,” “Baby Scratch My Back,” the two-part “Tip on In,” and “Te-Ni-Nee-Ni-Nu,” as well as various B-sides and other ephemera that all add up to a complete look at this unique musician. By rolling country and swamp blues together up into a completely new place, then sprinkling in just a touch of Jimmy Reed, Harpo created a body of work that has been as impossible to re-create as it has been influential. All the proof is here. – Steve Leggett

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