My quick take: I gravitate towards the fourth video. It sounds more like today. A more modern groove, bass line driving the whole thing, lyrics that speak to life today. I like Pete Galanis's guitar playing!
That Charles Pasi clip in the OP was something else! That's the way to make the harmonica interesting to a lot of people who might have otherwise pigeon-holed it as a campfire instrument... After that it was "shuffle', "shuffle", "funk groove", "born in chicago groove", "SRV groove"... none of it bad, but nothing terribly new or different. ----------
I really like your additions marine 1896! I am wondering about Mitch's tuning on his solo on song 1 (Marco was doing "Chitlins...." after which M solo'd) ---------- Facebook
@bigd; Yeah Mitch is just the best for me. I don't have any harps where i'm working right now but I can hear he is throwing in some of a Horace Silver tune he covers(usually on chromatic) "Song for my father" and maybe playing in 3rd??? I like how he just unscrews the mic grill and does not miss a thing one cool cat. ----------
"Those British boys want to play the blues real bad, and they do"
Last Edited by marine1896 on Aug 13, 2015 4:08 AM
Just published, although from a number of years ago: profile of Taro Senga, age 6:
This one is new:
This next one features Billy Branch and a bunch of (white) harp students. I wonder about how Corey Harris, cultural commissar for The Preservation of Black Blues, feels about this act of treachery:
On this next one, notice how the drummer is carrying the shuffle groove in a very tight, laid-back way. He will NOT let it race ahead. Hard to do:
Here's a cool instructional video by, of all people, Charlie Sayles:
Here's Rod Piazza with a monstrously big sound. The man is NOT going down slow! And Honey standing up on the piano:
Years ago working up in different parts of Scotland I used to see a really good harp player called Spider MacKenzie and since I'm back up in Scotland again for a short spell I found this, persevere some good harp playing at 4.55 ....
Another Mitch vid, but is that a Quilter he uses looks like harps on top of it?
Aki, Big Jon and all those cat's keeping the trad/west coast blues alive and well in summer 2015....
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"Those British boys want to play the blues real bad, and they do"
Last Edited by marine1896 on Aug 13, 2015 7:58 AM
check out the amp mitch appears to be using a quiltor aviator... sounds awesome, we seem to be hearing them more and more, a good match with the ceramic element he is using.
