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Slim Harpo: Blues King Bee of Baton Rouge - Hawkins, Martin, and Broven, John (Foreword by)
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As Louis Armstrong forever tethered jazz to New Orleans and Clifton Chenier fixed Lafayette as home to zydeco, Slim Harpo established Baton Rouge as a base for the blues. In the only complete biography of this internationally renowned blues singer and musician, Martin Hawkins traces Harpo's rural upbringing near Louisiana's capital, his professional development fostered by the local music scene, and his national success with R&B hits like Rainin' in My Heart, Baby Scratch My Back, and I'm A King Bee, among others. Hawkins ...

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Slim Harpo: Blues King Bee of Baton Rouge 2022, LSU Press, Baton Rouge

ISBN-13: 9780807177297

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Slim Harpo: Blues King Bee of Baton Rouge 2016, LSU Press, Baton Rouge

ISBN-13: 9780807164532

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