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Product description CD Review In the late 1950s and the first six years of the 1960s, multiinstrumentalist Leslie "Lazy Lester" Johnson helped define the Louisiana "swamp blues" sound of Jay Miller's Excello label. Lester recorded again in the late 1980s, and this set of originals and cover material (hooray for Slim Harpo and James Carr, nix on Bo Diddley and Eddie Boyd) captures all of his distinctiveness: an indolently swinging voice whose tonality belongs to country and western and Cajun music rather than blues, and a plaintive-happy harmonica that suggests Jimmy Reed's without any mimicry. Lester's King Snake sessionsmen are ham-handed in their attempts at conjuring peat bog ambience. (35:24/1988) -- © Frank John Hadley 1993 -- From Grove Press Guide to Blues on CD
