“After serving in the Navy in World War II, Harris moved to Houston in 1943. He devoted his full time to music a few years later and became a protégé of Houston blues patriarch Lightnin’ Hopkins, who landed him (as Peppermint Nelson) his first recording session…it was the surprise success of his ‘I Got Loaded’ ode to alcohol…that made him a star, creating a blues subgenre in the process, one Harris repeatedly mined” (Encyclopedia of the Blues, 2006).
Peppermint Harris “I Got Loaded”
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