Harry "Big Daddy" Hypolite - Louisiana Country Boy (2001)

→ Thanks to L. C.

The miraculous album

A really magnificent haunting blues voice for a beautiful album coming from ― and catching you by ― the guts. Despite the obvious talent of Harry Hypolite, it's totally unbelievable that this superb recording which exhales the favor of the muddy waters of the bayous is his first and only solo opus, recorded while he was 63 !

Born in April 1937 in St. Martinville, Louisiana, in a Creole French speaking family, Hypolite did not learn English until going to school at the age of 6. He had a rough youth, obliged to drop out after the fourth grade to go out and work : from about 12 years old he cut sugar cane, dug sweet potatoes or picked okra and cotton.