BLUES HARP

A salute to the smallest, cheapest, and most expressive of blues instruments -- The Harmonica! Guaranteed to brighten the darkest mood and get your toes a tappin', here are some Harmonica Classics I've been digging lately:

I GOT LOVE IF YOU WANT IT -- SLIM HARPO
Recorded Crowley, LA, 1957
Excello Single #2113, July 1957
**Cool drum work on this tune by Clarence 'Jockey' Etienne, this is the flip side to Slim's fist single 'I'm A King Bee'

I'LL BE AROUND -- HOWLIN' WOLF
Recorded Chicago, October, 1954
Chess Single #1584, October, 1954

ROCKET 88 -- JIMMY COTTON BLUES QUARTET
Recorded Chicago, December, 1965
Chicago Blues Today, Vol. 2, Vanguard #9217, 1966

WOLF CALL BOOGIE -- HOT SHOT LOVE
Recorded Memphis, January, 1954
Sun Single #196, January, 1954
**Currently one of my very favorite songs this is, sign painter-street person-harmonica wizard, Hot Shot Love's only single ever released. Full of nasty bar room jive!

SUGAR COATED LOVE -- LAZY LESTER
Recorded Crowley, LA, 1958
Excello Single #2143, August, 1958

JUKE -- LITTLE WALTER AND HIS NIGHT CATS
Recorded Chicago, May 12, 1952
Checker Single #758, August, 1952

ENDS & ODDS -- JIMMY REED
Recorded Chicago, September 5, 1957
Vee-Jay Single #304, December, 1958
** Jimmy's The Man!