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Best known for regional hits recorded with Ernie Young's Nashville-based Excello Records, Lester also contributed to songs recorded by other Excello artists, including Slim Harpo, Lightnin' Slim, and Katie Webster.
Slim then recorded for Excello Records for twelve years, starting in the mid-1950s, often collaborating with his brother-in-law Slim Harpo and with the harmonica player Lazy Lester. [6] Slim stopped performing the blues for a time and eventually worked in a foundry in Pontiac, Michigan , [ citation needed ] as a result of which his hands were constantly exposed to high temperatures.
Miller gave him the stage name "Lightnin' Slim". Slim then recorded for Excello Records for twelve years, starting in the mid-1950s, often collaborating with his brother-in-law Slim Harpo and with the harmonica player Lazy Lester .
Producer Jay Miller was impressed by Lester’s work with Lightnin’ Slim, and in 1957 Lester debuted as a lead artist on Excello, ... he recorded Lazy Lester Rides Again for the Blue Horizon label in England. The record was released on Kingsnake in the U.S. and won a W.C. Handy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album. In 1988, ...
Lazy Lester, the last surviving member of the colorfully nicknamed South Louisiana blues artists who created the "swamp blues" sound on Excello Records, joins his friend, the late Slim Harpo, in the Blues Hall of Fame. (Lightnin’ Slim and Lonesome Sundown have yet to be inducted.)
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9 de feb. de 2024 · Jeff Tamarkin on February 9, 2024. By the time Leslie Johnson—a.k.a. bluesman Lazy Lester— passed away in 2018 at the age of 85, he had logged countless miles over the course of his six-plus ...
