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Unlike his multi-colored sobriquet, (given by prolific southern Louisiana manufacturer J.D. Miller), harpist Sluggish Lester swears he hardly ever was everything that lethargic. But he rarely was in a lot of a rush either, even though relentless speed of his Excello Information swamp blues classics “I’m a Fan Not really …

There’s hardly any sound within the blues as conveniently digestible, accessible, immediately recognizable, so when an easy task to play and sing because the music of Jimmy Reed. His best-known music — “Baby, WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE Me to accomplish,” “Shiny Lights, Big Town,” “Honest I REALLY DO,” “You don’t …

Among the strongest contemporary proponents of Baton Rouge swamp blues, Kenny Neal is really a second-generation southern Louisiana bluesman who’s cognizant from the region’s venerable blues custom and imaginative a sufficient amount of to steer it all in fresh directions. Neal was created on Oct 14, 1957 in New Orleans. …

Within the large stable of blues talent that Crowley, LA, producer Jay Miller documented for the Nashville-based Excello label, no-one enjoyed even more mainstream success than Slim Harpo. Only a tone behind Lightnin’ Slim in regional popularity, Harpo performed both electric guitar and neck-rack harmonica in a far more down-home …