MrVerylongusername
2094 posts
Dec 04, 2011
8:51 AM
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From Pat Missin
"if you mean second position harp played with lots of bent notes and other typical blues stylings, then the first recorded examples of this were by a white musician named Henry Whitter. In early December 1923, Whitter recorded several tunes for the Okeh label, the first of which was his cross harp classic "Rain Crow Bill Blues". Unfortunately, there don't seem to be too many current CD reissues of Whitter's solo recordings, although the album "G.B Grayson and Henry Whitter: Early Classics Vol. 1 & 2" (available from Old Homestead Records) has three of his later harmonica solos. "
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