Slim Harpo: Blues King Bee of Baton Rouge Martin Hawkins 416 Pages ISBN: # 978-0807164532 LSU Press 2016 James Moore, AKA, Slim Harpo, was a musician that existed at ground level. In his heyday, one ...

The 2022 Slim Harpo Music Awards will take place on March 17 at 7:30 p.m. at Phil Brady’s Bar & Grill in Baton Rouge. Named in honor of James Moore, the blues star from Baton Rouge who performed as ...

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 ...

James Moore, AKA, Slim Harpo, was a musician that existed at ground level. In his heyday, one was as likely to see him exiting the Excello Records in Nashville, TN one day and driving a truck in New ...

It was bitterly cold on a late December night in the late ’60s, and a blizzard was forecast when I went out to listen to Slim Harpo at Steve Paul’s Scene, a club on West 46th Street and 8th Avenue in ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The Slim Harpo 'Lovell' ES-330 is available in Vintage Sunset Burst, featuring a three-ply maple/poplar/maple top, back and sides with spruce bracing, a mahogany neck with a rounded C-shape neck ...

How many Slim Harpo recordings do you know? Perhaps you've heard "Raining in My Heart" (not the Buddy Holly tune), which made it to No. 34 on Billboard's pop chart in 1961; "Baby, Scratch My Back," ...

Grammy-winning country performer Wynonna will perform covers of John Prine, Fats Domino, and others on her upcoming EP, Recollections. Due out October 30th via Anti- Records, the project’s first ...

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 ...