Slim Harpo - Buzzin' the Blues (CD)

Bear Family's luxurious CD boxed set, Slim Harpo 'Buzzin' The Blues - The Complete Slim Harpo', was honored with the 'Blues Music Award 2016' as 'Best Historical Album of the Year'. The award ceremony was part of the Blues Foundation's gala evening in the Cook Convention Center in Memphis, Tennessee on the evening of May 5th. The award was presented to Detlev Hoegen, Bear Family Record's managing director, by Thomas Ruf (Ruf Records, Germany) and Andrew Galloway (Electro-Fi Records, Canada). Bear Family would like to express deepest thanks to Martin Hawkins, William Gambler and Johnny Pallazotto. The complete works of one of the masters of Louisiana 'swamp blues' and 'swamp pop. ' CDs 1 and 2 hold all Slim Harpo's Excello label 45s and original album tracks. CDs 3 and 4 have all the recordings unissued in Harpo's lifetime and all the alternative takes of issued songs. CD 5 features a live recording made in 1961, one of the very earliest to capture an original and important blues artist in their prime. There are four previously unissued live songs and one previously unknown song. Slim Harpo made his impressive entrance into the world of blues recordings in 1957. Here was a man with an unforgettable name, a strong song - I'm A King Bee - and a finely-crafted minimalist style, at once familiar and novel. In 1961 Slim Harpo made a crossover entry into the American Rhythm 'n' Blues and Popular Music charts when Rainin' In My Heart became one of those barely-categorisable hits that just couldn't be ignored. Then came Baby, Scratch My Back, a soulful rhythmic number that led to tours with the rock elite.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. I'm a King Bee
2. I Got Love If You Want It
3. Wondering and Worryin'
4. Strange Love
5. You'll Be Sorry One Day
6. One More Day
7. Buzz Me Babe
8. Late Last Night
9. What a Dream
10. Blues Hangover
11. Don't Start Cryin' Now
12. Rainin' in My Heart
13. Snoopin' Around (Instrumental)
14. Bobby Sox Baby
15. Dream Girl
16. My Home Is a Prison
17. Moody Blues (Instrumental)
18. I Love the Life I'm
19. Living
20. Buzzin' (Instrumental)
21. My Little Queen Bee (Got a Brand New King)
22. I Need Money (Keep Your Alibis)
23. We're Two of a Kind
24. Still Rainin' in My Heart
25. What's Goin 'On Baby
26. Sittin' Here Wondering
27. Harpo's Blues
28. Please Don't Turn Me Down
29. Baby Scratch My Back
30. I'm Gonna Miss You (Like the Devil)
31. Shake Your Hips
32. Midnight Blues
33. I'm Your Breadmaker Baby
34. Loving You (The Way I Do)

Disc: 2

1. Tip on in (Part 1)
2. Tip on in (Part 2)
3. I'm Gonna Keep What I've Got
4. I've Got to Be with You Tonight
5. Te-Ni-Nee-Ni-Nu
6. Mailbox Blues
7. Mohair Sam
8. I Just Can't Leave You
9. That's Why I Love You
10. Just for You
11. Folsom Prison Blues
12. Mutual Friend
13. I've Got My Finger on Your Trigger
14. The Price Is Too High
15. My Baby She's Got It
16. I'm So Sorry
17. I've Been a Good Thing for You
18. Hey Little Lee
19. Jody Man
20. Rainin' in My Heart (Overdubbed)
21. Stick Your Chest Out Baby
22. The Music's Hot
23. You Can't Make It
24. The Hippy Song
25. Dynamite
26. Boogie Chillun
27. Rock Me Baby
28. Baby Please Come Home

Disc: 3

1. One of These Days
2. That Ain't Your Business
3. I'm a King Bee (Alt)
4. This Ain't No Place for Me
5. I Got Love If You Want It (Alt)
6. Things Gonna Change
7. Wondering and Worryin' (Alt -1)
8. Strange Love (Alt -1)
9. Wondering and Worryin' (Alt -2)
10. One More Day (Alt -1)
11. Late Last Night (Alt -1)
12. Cigarettes
13. One More Day (Alt -2)
14. Bobby Sox Baby (Alt)
15. Buzz Me Babe (Alt)
16. Late Last
17. Night (Alt -2)
18. That Ain't Your Business
19. Things Gonna Change
20. Talking Blues (Aka Blues Hangover)
21. What's Goin'on You
22. Ain't Never Had to Cry (Aka Don't Start Cryin' Now)
23. That's Alright (You'll Be Sorry One Day)
24. That's Alright (Alt)
25. Yeah Yeah Baby
26. Dream Girl (Alt)
27. Don't Start Cryin' Now (Alt)
28. Blues Hangover (Alt)

Disc: 4

1. Moody Blues (Instrumental) (Alt)
2. Rainin' in My Heart (Alt -1)
3. Rainin' in My Heart (Alt -2)
4. Wild About My Baby
5. That's Alright Baby (Don't Start Cryin Now)
6. Lover's Confession
7. Something Inside Me
8. Still Rainin' in My Heart
9. A Man Is Crying Tonite
10. I'm Lonely
11. I Love the Life I'm Living (Alt -1)
12. Buzzin' (Instrumental) (Alt)
13. I Love the Life I'm Living (Alt -2)
14. My Little Queen Bee (Alt)
15. Little Sally Walker
16. Boogie Chillun
17. Blueberry Hill
18. I'm Waiting on You Baby -1
19. We're Two of a Kind (Alt)
20. I'm Waiting on You Baby -2
21. You'll Never Find a Love (As True As Mine)
22. I Don't Want No One (To Take You Away from Me) -1
23. Baby Scratch My Back (The Scratch) (Alt)
24. I Don't Want No One (To Take You Away from Me) -2
25. Baby You Got What I Want
26. Your Love for Me Is Gone
27. I Gotta Stop Loving You
28. Stop Working Blues
29. I Just Can't Leave You
30. There's Nothing As Sweet
31. As Making Up

Disc: 5

1. Star Time (Set 1: Theme and Introduction)
2. Hold Me Tenderly (Live)
3. Little Liza Jane (Live Set 1)
4. I'm a King Bee (Live Set 1)
5. Buzzin' (Live)
6. I Got Love If You Want It (Live Set 1)
7. You Know I Love You (Live)
8. Lottie Mo (Live)
9. Everybody Needs Somebody (Live)
10. Big Boss Man (Live)
11. I'll Take Care of You (Live)
12. Boogie Chillun (Live)
13. Moody Blues (Live Instrumental)
14. Sugar Coated
15. Love (Live)
16. Last Night (Live)
17. Matilda (Live with Unknown Vocalist)
18. Talk to Me Baby (Live with Unknown Vocalist)
19. Star Time (Set 2: Theme and Introduction)
20. I'm a King Bee (Live Set 2)
21. I Don't Play (Live)
22. I Got Love If You Want It (Live Set 2)
23. Little Liza
24. Jane (Live Set 2)
25. When the Saints Go Marchin' in (Live)
26. Rainin' in My Heart (Live)