Best of Slim Harpo [Ace]

by Slim Harpo

Overview

By rolling country and swamp blues together up into a completely new place, then sprinkling in just a touch of Jimmy Reed, Slim Harpo created a body of work for Jay Miller's Nashville-based Excello Records in the early '60s that has been as impossible to re-create as it has been influential. The rustic, laconic way that these recordings unfolded, aided and abetted by Miller's trademark, echo-laden production, makes them singular even inside the Excello stable. This succinct set has the best known tracks that Harpo released, including the songs "I'm a King Bee" (and its many variations like "Buzzin'"), the gorgeous "Rainin' in My Heart" (and its maybe even more impressive sequel "Still Rainin' in My Heart"), "Baby Scratch My Back," and "Te-Ni-Nee-Ni-Nu," Truthfully, Harpo was a bit of a one trick pony, but that trick was so absolutely wonderful that one can never get enough of it. ~ Steve Leggett

Product Details

Release Date:	09/03/2002
Label:	Ace
UPC:	0029667141024
Rank:	7409

Tracks

1. Baby Scratch My Back
2. I Got Love If You Want It
3. I'm a King Bee
4. My Little Queen Bee (Got a Brand New King)
5. Shake Your Hips
6. Te-Ni-Nee-Ni-Nu
7. Buzz Me Babe
8. Buzzin'
9. Rainin' in My Heart
10. Still Rainin' in My Heart
11. Late Last Night
12. Tip on in, Pt. 1
13. Bobby Sox Baby
14. Don't Start Crying Now
15. I Need Money (Keep Your Alibis)
16. Strange Love
17. Rock Me Baby
18. Blues Hangover

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Slim Harpo   Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Jay Miller   Producer
B.B. King   Composer
Bill Inglot   Digital Remastering
Ken Perry   Digital Remastering
Michelle Laurencot   Design
Slim Harpo   Composer
Jerry West   Composer
James Austin   Project Assistant
Todd Everett   Liner Notes
Gary Peterson   Project Assistant
Robert Holmes   Composer