Song Review/ Blues : Svarp the Harp’s ‘Hoochie Coochie Man’
Svarp the Harp has a style and charisma that can take on blues and make it bluer. His song, ‘Hoochie Coochie Man’, a cover of the 1954 release is especially special. The blues are old, dripping with that era’s richness, ethos, and nostalgia. He keeps it chunky, coarse, and full of swag. Svarp’s vocals are pausing and emphatic, a blues vocal rhythm if there even was one.
Each time he pauses, you take it all in. The quality, the performance, the emotion, and all the blues. Deep and baritonal, he keeps it authentic. And the instrumentals, they all flow, spread, and converge around the vocals. The guitar especially is raw and just as expressive as the voice. We see harmonica solos, it carries the blues into delicious shades of country and folk. Slow dancing, growing, quivering, swinging, and glistening, it puts on a great show. Listen Now!
