CD1: Slim Harpo: Blues Hang-Over; Butch Cage and Willie B. Thomas: Who Broke The Lock; Lightnin’ Slim: Bad Luck; Lightnin’ Slim: Bugger Bugger Boy; Schoolboy Cleve: Strange Letter Blues; Clarence ...

“Accomplished” would be an understatement in describing the decades-long career of Leslie Carswell Johnson (better known as Lazy Lester), who passed away on Wednesday, August 22. The Louisiana-born ...

Nashville’s Excello Records had a blues pipeline to J.D. Miller’s studio in southwest Louisiana. From 1955 through 1965, Miller produced swamp blues records for Excello, and many of the label’s ...

Swamp-blues artist Slim Harpo has long been one of Louisiana’s least chronicled music stars. The new book by British writer Martin Hawkins changes that. At 416 pages, Slim Harpo: Blues King Bee of ...

Born in Baton Rouge in 1924, the blues musician known as Slim Harpo influenced rock bands like the Rolling Stones, the Kinks and Pink Floyd. Rock Historian Ed Ward shares Harpo's story. This is FRESH ...

Any musical genre gets its own regional twist, and this is especially the case with the blues. Just think of Chicago blues, Memphis blues and Detroit blues. However, a regional variant that has not ...

This is FRESH AIR. For a bluesman who didn't come from one of the usual places and who didn't sound much like any of the Chicago bluesman of the early 1950s, Slim Harpo not only had great success, but ...