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who is this harp player?
who is this harp player?
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kudzurunner
5056 posts
Oct 15, 2014
3:33 PM
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Heard this cut on Bluesville today. Alice Stuart is not a name familiar to me, and the harp solo, which really caught my ear, isn't a player I can identify. It has a little of Paul DeLay's unpredicability, but I don't think it's him:
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kudzurunner
5057 posts
Oct 15, 2014
3:35 PM
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Aha! I think we're getting closer.
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Tweedaddict
170 posts
Oct 15, 2014
4:41 PM
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Heh!
Thanks Adam, I DIG this!
Sorry I'm not answering your Q of who the harp player is but.
MikeG
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slaphappy
39 posts
Oct 15, 2014
4:46 PM
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I think that's Sheldon Ziro? The guy from the Mojo summer busking clip a month or so ago? I like his style..
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Harmonica is Life!
Last Edited by slaphappy on Oct 15, 2014 4:47 PM
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bluemoose
1016 posts
Oct 15, 2014
4:55 PM
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sounds like Paul to me. 2002 in Seattle. Could be.
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kudzurunner
5058 posts
Oct 15, 2014
5:07 PM
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Indeed it is DeLay. Here's the review, which mentions him:
http://www.ieblues.org/Alice_Stuart_Review.html
I'll be honest: I yelled out loud during that solo. "Who the hell is THAT?!" It sounded like nothing else I've heard in a while. Good stuff.
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Rgsccr
292 posts
Oct 15, 2014
9:31 PM
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Not to stray from the topic, but Alice Stuart has been the guest at the jam I go to weekly a couple of times recently. At 72 she is still a special performer - terrific guitarist and singer with a great stage presence. And she is a really nice person to talk to. Paul deLay was special as well - I listen to at least one of his songs everyday and try to play along (emphasis on "try").
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mastercaster
86 posts
Oct 16, 2014
2:30 AM
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Sorry a bit off topic but,
Learn something new everyday , and today it was something special !
@ Adam - Thanks for posting & bringing to our attention here, a great performer and big influence on the music we all love !
@ Rgsccr - you are a lucky person to be rubbing elbows with a performer who has had so much history !
"Alice Stuart blazed the trail for women in Rock and Roll as one of the only females in the country to write her own music, front a male band, and play lead guitar on national and international circuits during the 1970s.
Blues Hall of Fame inductee Dick Waterman once remarked, "There would be no Bonnie Raitt without Alice Stuart." According to Taj Mahal, "Alice cut the road that Bonnie traveled."
http://www.alicestuart.com/media/
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walterharp
1537 posts
Oct 16, 2014
6:45 PM
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so adam, did you purchase the mp3 after listening to the youtube? :-)
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kudzurunner
5064 posts
Oct 17, 2014
5:35 AM
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No, and that's precisely why I don't encourage people to put--i.e., stream--copyrighted music on YouTube. If I hadn't found it there after I searched and ID'd it via a Bluesville playlist search, I would have gone right to Amazon and sampled it, then almost certainly purchased it. Now I can just stream and stream to my heart's content.
Thanks for helping me make my point!
I use YT to stream lots of live recordings of the Blues Doctors, but only rarely do I give away a track for free there. I've done it with four "formal" music videos for Crossroads Blues, Old McDonald in Mississippi, Thunky Fing Rides Again, and Tequila. If linked to purchase pages for the albums, those can serve as loss leaders and promotional tools. No regrets there. But if somebody started uploading my music--tracks from my albums--to YouTube, I would file complaints. In my 495 YT videos, I've never uploaded a full-lengh track's worth of the copyrighted music of other blues artists. Just one or two S&A cuts from the old days, and, I think, a track or two from the Nat Riddles album I assembled.
Last Edited by kudzurunner on Oct 17, 2014 5:37 AM
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ChasGrav
2 posts
Oct 17, 2014
5:35 AM
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It's amazing to me that after fifty years as a rabid blues fan, I'm still running across veteran artists of this caliber that I never even knew existed. It's a glorious world!
Yeah, killer harp, too!
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kudzurunner
5065 posts
Oct 17, 2014
5:36 AM
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Agreed. I'd never heard of Alice Stuart, either. I thought she was much younger when I heard the track. A girlish vet.....
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BronzeWailer
1492 posts
Oct 17, 2014
6:08 PM
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She's great! Sounds so effortless...
BronzeWailer's YouTube
Last Edited by BronzeWailer on Oct 17, 2014 6:08 PM
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Rgsccr
293 posts
Oct 17, 2014
8:04 PM
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Since there seems to some interest in Alice Stuart here is a brief bio from Wikipedia -
Alice Stuart (born 1942, Chelan, Washington) is an American blues and folk singer-songwriter and guitarist. She toured the UK with Van Morrison and throughout the United States with Mississippi John Hurt.
Her singing, songwriting, and guitar playing secured her invitations to tour nationally and internationally with Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Doc Watson, Jerry Ricks, Phil Ochs, and Joan Baez, in addition to television appearances on The Dick Cavett Show and the Old Grey Whistle Test. In addition, Stuart's songs have been recorded by Kate Wolf, Irma Thomas, and Jackie DeShannon.
Stuart started taking piano lessons at age 5. She picked up the guitar at age 18 and also plays banjo, auto harp, parade snare drum, and bass.[1]
Stuarts' early influences as a musician came from classical music, country artists of the 40s and 50s such as Hank Snow, Hank Williams, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, The Everly Brothers and Ivory Joe Hunter, as well as records from the 20s and 30s from Blind Willie McTell, Bessie Smith, Rabbit Brown and artist Bob Dylan.[1]
At the age of twenty two, Stuart played the Berkeley Folk Festival in 1964. She was then invited back by creator/producer Barry Olivier to perform in 1966, and 1970. It was there that she formed a friendship with Mississippi John Hurt, which led to the two touring together.
Billboard magazine reviewed her debut release in 1964 with: "A beautiful new female voice is now on the folk horizon. Its owner's name is Alice Stuart. She sings with a clean freshness that is exciting in its simplicity. A folk find!"
In 1964, she met with musician Frank Zappa at a coffeehouse in Santa Monica, California, by chance as they both were waiting to meet the same person, guitarist Steve Mann. She became a member of Zappa's band, The Mothers of Invention, which at the time was blues band. Zappa wanted to incorporate Stuarts acoustic delta style with his electric leads. However she left before they made their debut album Freak Out! and did not make any recordings with the group.[1] Zappa reportedly fired her from the band because she could not play "Louie Louie".
On November 28, 1971, Stuart appeared on BBC Television's Old Grey Whistle Test, a television program that aired in Europe. In addition to Stuart, a group named Redwing appeared, which among others, featured Timothy B. Schmit (later of The Eagles). Stuart and Redwing were both on the Fantasy label.
In 1972, Stuart sang the title theme song to the X-rated cartoon movie Fritz the Cat, with music done by Ed Bogas.
On January 2, 1973, Stuart appeared on The Dick Cavett Show, hosted at the time by George Carlin. Other guests on the show included Shelley Winters and Jimmy Breslin.[3] During this time, she also performed with Rosalie Sorrells, Jack Elliott, Doc Watson, Jerry Ricks, Phil Ochs, and Joan Baez.
Guitar Player magazine featured an article on Stuart in 1974, titled, "Well, so much for 'Mary Hamilton'". Rolling Stone profiled Stuart in 1975 in a feature, "Guitars of the Stars", where she was mentioned alongside Chet Atkins, Mike Bloomfield, David Bromberg, Jose Feliciano, Bonnie Raitt, and Doc Watson.
In the autumn 2006, Stuart contributed her song "Highway" to the album project Artists for Charity - Guitarists 4 the Kids, produced by Slang Productions, to assist World Vision Canada in helping underprivileged kids in need.[4]
Currently, she tours with her band, The Formerlys, which consists of Marc Willett, who was in The Kingsmen from 1984–1992, and Steven Flynn, formerly of Chuck Berry's band and Jr. Cadillac.
Last Edited by Rgsccr on Oct 17, 2014 8:06 PM
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