Music To Listen To

Stumbled across George Winston by accident, I love his toungue blocking technique, absolutely amazing use of low tonic drone over folk songs. Sorry its not blues but it stil has that big chordal sound that catches me everytime. check out his album on itunes called "Harmonica Solos". He was taught by Sam Hinton and Rick Epping so great foundations.

Heres some youtube links for those interested:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E80Gj4A3EUg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mi6K1BtTAM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbDW99GQTIg

Great stuff

G

Can't seem to get enough of this one for some reason...

http://www.amazon.com/An-Offer-You-Cant-Refuse/dp/B004NEVQRK/ref=sr_1_3?...

45 minutes or so of classic Muddy and Jerry

http://youtu.be/ltLHsD_A9I4

What are your favorite holiday blues harmonica songs? 

I don't know if Ben Hernandez will play the harp on this project... but I suspect this is going to be great..

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/theturnrowsessions/the-turnrow-sessions

This video was posted on the William Clarke Remembered Facebook page. His wife says it was flimed in a living room. Video quality is terrible, audio quality is poor, but it's still riveting to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBhIfNec6SY#t=1243

Mark H.

Bill Jensen ( a new member here) is also a jazz banjo player and has for several years posted a Christmas video to his friends. This year he invited me to join his "Jingle Bells Gang" in this year's project. It was extremely interesting to see how something like this was put together with players from South Dakota, Toronto and Victoria joining in. The whole recording of audio and video was with individual sessions and then assembled by Bill to produce what you see in this YouTube link. 

Best wishes to all for a safe and happy holiday season! continue reading...

maybe its been mentioned before, but the Jimmy Rogers' Allstars album "Blues Blues Blues" is really a value package if you are interested in accompaniment.  Kim Wilson and Carey Bell share duties, on most of the tracks in an accompaniment context. Really worth spending some quality time with this record, IMHO 

"You Win Again" by Johnny Hoy & The Bluefish

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va_u3QTG0no

Thought I'd share some videos taken from a recent show in San Jose. You'll notice you can hear me more than you can see me; unfortunately I had to play offstage due to feedback issues from playing striaght through thier PA(this was before the even more recent addition of my RI Bassman). Sound quality isn't the greatest and some of the songs are still works in progress but hey that's how you get better and I'll be looking forawrd to uploading more in the future. Enjoy, comments/feedback welcome.

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