{"id":94,"date":"2006-02-09T19:44:24","date_gmt":"2006-02-10T01:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/2006\/02\/09\/slim-harpo-the-original-king-bee\/"},"modified":"2006-02-09T19:44:24","modified_gmt":"2006-02-10T01:44:24","slug":"slim-harpo-the-original-king-bee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2006\/slim-harpo-the-original-king-bee\/","title":{"rendered":"Slim Harpo &#8212; The Best of Slim Harpo &#8211; The Original King Bee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/harposlimbestof.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-687\" title=\"Slim Harpo -- The Best of Slim Harpo - The Original King Bee\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/harposlimbestof.jpg\" alt=\"Slim Harpo -- The Best of Slim Harpo - The Original King Bee\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"recdata\">\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> Slim Harpo<\/li>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> The Best of Slim Harpo &#8211; The Original King Bee<\/li>\n<li><strong>Year:<\/strong> 1983<\/li>\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong> Vinyl 12 in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rating (1-10):<\/strong> 7<\/li>\n<li><strong>Owner:<\/strong> Tracy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acquired:<\/strong> 1983 &#8211; I think I mail ordered this directly from Rhino Records.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keeper:<\/strong> Yes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I file Slim Harpo under &#8220;H&#8221; but I&#8217;m going to go out on a limb and guess that neither of those are his real names. I bought this record in one of my many blues phases; I was still in highschool during this one. The thing is Slim is not all that bluesy. Many pursists don&#8217;t like his stuff because he mixed it up with everything from rock and roll to country. That eclecticism didn&#8217;t keep him from having fans in the highest echelons in rock. Many bands from the Rolling Stones on down have recorded covers of his songs, &#8220;I&#8217;m a King Bee&#8221; and &#8220;Hipshake&#8221; in particular. The Moody Blues even named their band after one of his songs. My favorites are &#8220;Baby Scratch My Back&#8221; and &#8220;The Hippy Song.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: Slim Harpo Title: The Best of Slim Harpo &#8211; The Original King Bee Year: 1983 Format: Vinyl 12 in. Rating (1-10): 7 Owner: Tracy Acquired: 1983 &#8211; I think I mail ordered this directly from Rhino Records. Keeper: Yes I file Slim Harpo under &#8220;H&#8221; but I&#8217;m going to go out on a limb [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[470,452,453],"tags":[507,585,46,971,1033],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-h","category-music","category-record-collection","tag-507","tag-blues","tag-music","tag-slim-harpo","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}