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Blues great ‘Slim Harpo’ gets state marker


John Wirt --- June 23, 2014

VIDEO ----- [link.brightcove.com]


PORT ALLEN — The musical talents of West Baton Rouge native James Moore, better known as “Slim Harpo,” were formally recognized in his home parish Saturday with the dedication of a historical marker near his gravesite.

Moore’s songwriting, his instantly recognizable, nasal-toned vocals and his elegant harmonica playing made him a national music star. The late musician is among the most beloved recording artists from southeast Louisiana.

Moore’s swamp blues classics include 1957’s “I’m a King Bee,” 1960’s “Rainin’ In My Heart” and 1965’s “Baby Scratch My Back.” British invasion acts the Rolling Stones, Van Morrison, the Yardbirds and the Kinks were his fans. The Rolling Stones recorded Moore’s “I’m a King Bee,” for instance, for their 1964 album debut. The Stones turned to Moore again when they recorded “Shake Your Hips” for the album considered to be their best, 1972’s “Exile on Main St.”

The West Baton Rouge Historical Association dedicated a Louisiana State Historical Marker to him Saturday morning at the intersection of South Mulatto Bend Road and U.S. 190. It’s the first of the parish’s 26 historical markers to honor a musician.

The audience for Saturday’s unveiling ceremony included members of the Moore family, musician Kenny Neal, blues star Buddy Guy’s brother, Sam, and Slim Harpo Awards founder Johnny Palazzotto. Other attendees included David Kearns, the Alabama man who recorded a performance by Slim Harpo and his King Bees in 1961 in Mobile, released in 1997 by England’s Ace Records as “Sting It Then!”

The historical marker, Moore’s stepson William Gambler said at the dedication, “is extremely appreciated and something that we’d have never thought of.”

Moore grew up in the historic African-American community of Mulatto Bend, on the west bank of the Mississippi River near the U.S. 190 bridge. He died in 1970 at 46 and is buried next to his parents in Mulatto Bend Cemetery, a short walk from the new marker.

Moore’s fans continuously travel to Mulatto Bend in search of his gravesite, lifelong Mulatto Bend resident Mary Collins said Saturday.

“People come from everywhere,” she said. “Always did. If they didn’t know where the graveyard was, they’d ride through Mulatto Bend Road. If they see some of us are walking on the street, they’ll ask us where the graveyard is. They say, ‘Because Slim Harpo is buried there.’ ”



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Spoonful turn 21



Spooonful: Still treading the boards 21 years down the line. Photo: Paul Jeffers

Mick Jagger was flapping about backstage like a mother hen. The Rolling Stones were due on stage at Rod Laver Arena and the clock was ticking on the meet-and-greet with the support band, a bunch of red-hot Melbourne rockers called Jet.

As that band's hired-gun guitarist, Andre Warhurst was a guest of a guest at this momentous occasion. But he'll never forget what Keith Richards said to him as Jagger leapt about calling time.

"I used to be able to smoke one of these in between Gimme Shelter and Sympathy for the Devil," the human riff confided, indicating a sneaky roll-up between gnarled fingers. "I guess those days are gone, man.

Immortal as those words may be, the point of this story is what happened next. While Jet stuck around to watch their heroes play Gimme Shelter and Sympathy for the Devil, Warhurst slipped away to play his own gig at the Clifton Hill Hotel with his real band, Spoonful.

It isn't a name that readily springs to the same lips that might scream for the Stones or, albeit once upon a time, Jet. But next week Spoonful celebrate their 21st birthday in the kind of shape those bands can only wistfully recall.

Greeting each other at a Northcote bar, Andre Warhurst and his brother, Kit, exude the unmistakable air of lifelong rockers. With their classic '60s mops and jackets, in the dim light you can almost imagine you’ve bumped into half the Kinks or the Faces. Except they're ordering light beer.

"You driving too?"
Kit nods.
"I don't think it's really ever been anyone's band," Andre says after we've found a table under a heater in the yard. "It's just been David Lord, Paul Winstanley and myself, and then Kit came in a couple of years into it."

They bounce the story between them. The uni band formed to raise money for a sports trip to Queensland. The thrill of their first gigs. The set list geared to pull crowds: "rock'n'roll party songs. Lots of Stones and Black Crowes". The galvanising residencies at the Corner, the Central Club, the Labour In Vain.

"At a certain point, Kit and I got heavily into the blues scene. We used to go see bands like Checkerboard Lounge and elbow each other when someone did something really cool."

It was all an evolving revelation for two kids who'd grown up near Mildura with "just '80s commercial radio, so you can imagine what that was like" - although their older brother had a great record collection, as older brothers do. Their sister is Myf, of Spicks and Specks fame, so music was clearly a household obsession.

What's remarkable about Spoonful's longevity, is that it's despite the attentions of the roving pop spotlight, not because of it. Each member has played in numerous bands with other names since 1993, with the mixed fortunes that are part of the game.

Kit perhaps flew closest to the sun as the drummer with Rocket Science, a name murmured in next big thing terms as far away as Spain and Japan. Andre was once flown in to deputise at the Fuji Rock Festival.

"We met Mitch Mitchell there," he grins at his brother.

"We did," his brother grins back.

But not even a magic brush with a member of the Jimi Hendrix Experience could save Rocket Science from the cruel turns of pop's wheel of fortune. After a couple of years of high flying, Kit was back keeping time at another one of Spoonful's packed pub residencies.

The inevitable had already happened there, too, back in the '90s, when a record company guy walked in to see a band setting the place on fire. He started calling Andre up and saying stuff like "I've seen a lot of rock'n'roll gigs in my life, but you guys …" and so on.

He was a very good man with a distinguished company and his attention coincided with a rash of new original songs. So Spoonful became Manic Suede. An album was made, the stakes crept inexorably higher and then … nothing happened.

"I think we just confused everybody," Andre shrugs, and talk turns to the gig they're about to play. Kit tells him they've been invited to use the headlining act's amps and drums. They just need to bring guitars, plug in and play.

"Cool."

"Should be fun. Want us to put your name on the door?"

When Spoonful take the stage, it's so cool that people in the crowd elbow each other. It's not really anyone's band. Although it does feels like Andre's when he lurches from a soulful vocal into a climactic guitar wig-out that might end up anywhere, including up on a table in the middle of the room.

But David Lord steals more than one song with his blistering organ grooves and howling blues harp solos. Paul Winstanley is "a fireman and a male model" by day, someone near the back shouts into someone else's ear. He looks like both, but he plays much better bass.

Heavy on the originals these days but with telling covers, the band's taut and smouldering attack can sound like Cream, Traffic, or Booker T & the MGs. Mostly it sounds like a rock'n'roll band that has been pulling crowds on a weekly basis for 21 years.

"Of course we still dream. Course we do," Kit almost snaps at the obvious question. "You can't help it. That's half the reason everyone plays.
"But the thrill now is more to do with the joy you get from that next song you write. The song that someone brings to that one rehearsal and within an hour you've got something, you know."

Andre nods. "Yeah. Were still sucked into the dream."

Kit leans into his light beer. He tells Andre that the venue for their looming 21st birthday gig has been asking them about doing a soundcheck.

They both laugh. Andre says, "We’re not gonna turn up with a light show and a smoke machine and think that's gonna impress anybody. We're Spoonful. We're gonna show up and play."

Spoonful's 21st birthday gig is at the Gasometer Hotel, Collingwood, July 19.

[www.brisbanetimes.com.au]

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I'm way behind on this thread, just spent an hour catching up--thanks, Rockman!

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