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Slim Harpo Sings "Raining In My Heart...", 1961
Written by Slim Harpo
As the Wikipedia article admonishes, this song is not to be confused with the Buddy Holly song of the same name. It's been covered by Tom Jones, Neil Young, and the Fabulous Thunderbirds, among others, but I haven't heard any of those versions. This one is a slow New Orleans blues, a plea to an absent lover, sung in a gentle, high croon, accompanied by simple guitar lines. It's punctuated by a couple of warbling harmonica solos and an Ink Spots-style spoken invocation in the middle, the voice pitched a shade deeper so you know he's serious: "Honey, I need your love / Darlin', you know why."