Best of Lightnin Slim

Lightnin' Slim | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 27, 1999)
• Original Release Date: July 27, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Hip-O Records
• ASIN: B00000JNO0
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #172,045 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Another Excello Gem, June 26, 2000

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"jpthunder" (Irving, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best of Lightnin Slim (Audio CD)

This is an excellent collection of raw blues from a vastly underated artist. Lightnin' Slim (and other Excello artist for that matter) is as authnetic as Lousianna swamp blues gets. This is the stuff that paved the way for bands like Credence Clearwater Revival. The Excello label never got the recognition it deserved. If it weren't for Excello, Sun Records might not have been half the success that it was. If you like this album, check out Lazy Lester and Slim Harpo.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Laid back and captivating, January 22, 2002

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ED Denson (Alderpoint, Ca USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Best of Lightnin Slim (Audio CD)

There's no such thing as a bad Lightnin' Slim recording. This one is great. Lightnin' ranks with Howling Wolf and Muddy Waters as an artist but is lesser known because his label, Excello, was distributed mainly in the south, and that's where he played. The folk blues revival missed him, but you should not. If you love the postwar blues you'll find Lightnin's laid back drawling delivery, and his basic but moving sidemen's performances really deliver the heart of the blues. I could listen forever.

5.0 out of 5 stars The "Best Of Lightnin' Slim" Really Is!, January 14, 2000

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Louisiana YardDog (Texarkana, TX, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Best of Lightnin Slim (Audio CD)

I have six disc by Lightnin' Slim, and I must say this is the absolute cream of the crop. This is one of those albums that you will put on the CD player, put the player on REPEAT, and let 'er rip!There are songs on here that I have not heard in 40 years. It is almost like having a ghost in the house. I grew up in Louisiana in the '50s, and I know swamp blues when I hear it, and I am definitely hearing it here, in it's pure form, by my old pal, and favorite artist, Lightnin' Slim (Otis Hicks).This disc is not a bunch of out takes, but rather the sides that were released by Excello in the fifties, and actually had air play on such radio programs as those sponsored by Ernie's Record Mart, in Nashville, and Randy's, in Memphis. I also "heard it on the X." The digitization of this disc was done with great care, and it shows in the sound of it. And the actual disc itself is made to look like a tiny 45 RPM record, complete with the EXCELLO label! Cool! Another thing that has made this a real winner, and a must have, for the swamp blues listener, is the fellow who compiled this. None other than John Broven, the man who wrote the definitive work on swamp blues, and the whole Crowley crowd, with his book, "South To Louisiana", a must read for the serious swamp blues fan-atic. John also writes the liner notes for this disc. I guess that's about it. Check this one out, you will be glad you did.LYD