Tramp, by the Ford blues band off the cd "here we go" is an uptempo version of the groove. Mark Ford plays a great harp solo in the song,worth checking out.
The so called Tramp groove basically comes from a late 50's-early 60's Latin music influence and dance routine known as boogaloo. Magic Sam also had a tune called You Belong To Me, and even Wilson Pickett's Mustang Sally falls under this category. ---------- Sincerely, Barbeque Bob Maglinte Boston, MA http://www.barbequebob.com CD available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bbmaglinte
A couple of weeks ago I was with my wife at her company dinner event... they had a "Murder Mystery Dinner" that involved actors doing a wedding where the murder occurs.
They had the audience vocally doing the "Here Comes the Bride", and my wife nudges me to take out a harp and play it... which I did not, since I wasn't quite that drunk yet, and know better to be prepared to be able to play such things.
But a few days later at home and in my man cave, I tried playing it... not hard at all, but it helps to practice it some, as there are bent notes needed.
What I found interesting, and it would've gone over pretty well at such an event as the "Murder Mystery Dinner, was that "Here Comes the Bride" is a great intro to a "Tramp Groove" song !
Not sure a real bride would appreciate a "Tramp Groove" or if anyone would even know what the "groove" by name, but it sure would've been fun.
Maybe next time...
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Carla's dad Rufus put out the definitive (if not the original) - "Walkin the Dog" - that and "Mustang Sally" as BBQ pointed. Speaking of Bridal March to it - Rufus quotes something like the intro to the bridal march (?) in intro of the tune.
Here's my Tornotics doing a Trampy "Hog for You"
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here is a tramp sort of version from my sort of annual backyard party. It features Lewis Cowdry on guitar/vocals (started the austin blues scene with Jimmy/Stevie Vaughn), Sean carney on guitar (IBC band winner - sean carney band), and katherine"steady baby" stevens on drums. I blow some harp around the 9 minute mark. Lewis was using some kind of space echo thing and I tried to get with it on the harp acoustically using only natural effects. I got to play Tramp several times with the late Lowell Fulsom. He really could groove. Walter
here is a 45 from Storm, the original austin blues band featuring Lewis on harp/vocal, jimmie vaughan on guitar.
---------- walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year. " life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller
This video for the Otis and Carla version shows that Redding could have had a career as a comedian (although I got a chill when he showed off his plane):
Here's the same track without the overdubbed vocals. I love the way Al Jackson Jr. drives the groove:
Rappers Salt 'n' Pepa sampled the cut for their "Tramp" but I can't find a good video.
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Here's that version of Tramp I mentioned in this thread back in 2012. Shows how a great innovative soloist like Mark Ford handles this groove. Also shows how two harps work together. (Andy just on second harp and vocal)
