Slim Harpo
USA
Born: 11 January 1924
Died: 31 January 1970
Styles: Rock & Roll/Roots, Electric Harmonica Blues, Electric Blues, Harmonica Blues, Electric Chicago Blues, Louisiana Blues, Swamp Blues, Swamp Pop, Rock & Roll, Early R&B, R&B/Soul, Juke Joint Blues, Electric Delta Blues, Blues Revival, Acoustic Blues, Country Blues, Early American Blues
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In the large stable of blues talent that Crowley, LA, producer Jay Miller recorded for the Nashville-based Excello label, no one enjoyed more mainstream success than Slim Harpo. Just a shade behind Lightnin' Slim in local popularity, Harpo played both guitar and neck-rack harmonica in a more down-home approximation of Jimmy Reed, with a few discernible, and distinctive, differences. Harpo's music was certainly more laid-back than Reed's, if such a notion was possible. But the rhythm was insistent and, overall, Harpo was more adaptable than Reed...
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