kudzurunner
723 posts
Oct 01, 2009
5:16 AM
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A couple of months ago I drove up to Memphis one afternoon and did a sweetening session for Will Tucker, a teenaged Memphis guitar phenom who has a steady gig at B. B. King's on Beale Street. It was at the home studio of his producer. The track was "Walkin' Through the Park." I used my HarpGear 2 and my Shure PE5-H and got a heavy overdrive sound. I was deliberately paying homage to Butterfield's harp part on this same cut from The Muddy Waters Woodstock Album, but of course I was also throwing in some overblows--trying to make it new.
The album is now online at Amazon. If you'd like to preview and/or download the track, you can do that here:
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scottb
51 posts
Oct 01, 2009
6:27 AM
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where?
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kudzurunner
724 posts
Oct 01, 2009
6:36 AM
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A rectangular Amazon thingie should be visible for you just below my post above; hit any of the links on it and you'll end up on the page where you can buy the cut for 99 cents. There's also a short preview with a bit of harp playing.
If that doesn't work for you, just go to www.amazon.com and put in the words "will tucker." That's how I found the album.
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Preston
511 posts
Oct 01, 2009
6:38 AM
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I love it. Instantly recognizeable as "Gussow Harp", and not a replica of Butterfield.
I always thought being a session musician would be a great gig to have if you were a morning person/family man and not a bar-touring night-owl.
I'm interested in the back story. How did this all come about. (I mean you recording on this cut.)
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kudzurunner
725 posts
Oct 01, 2009
7:10 AM
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Brandon Bailey brought me along when he and Jay Gaunt were going to sit in with Will at BBs'. Will had watched a lot of my YouTube videos. All three of us ended up playing that evening. (I was extremely impressed by Will's generosity; I don't know many other 15-year old guitarists with gigs on Beale Street who would let three harp players dominate his gig the way we did.) I told him that if he ever needed me to come down and play on, for example, a recording session, I'd do it for free.
He called about a month later. Because it was a long drive--90 miles each way--his father instantly decided to pay me a modest fee, which was fair.
I did three takes. The band doesn't swing in quite the way I'm used to; they had more of a straight-ahead rock groove. (They weren't in the studio, of course. I was overdubbing.) But that was the professional challenge: figure out how to bring my best game to the table and make it fit in. I was happy with the result.
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bluesnut
104 posts
Oct 01, 2009
11:05 AM
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It seems the player is the key to getting the perticular sound out of an amp. A good piece of equipment is a bonus. I herd Eric Clapton said he tries to play Muddy Waters or Robert Johnson exactly but it still comes out sounding like Eric. What you gonna do eh? I liked the cut, I'm going to buy it.
Last Edited by on Oct 01, 2009 11:06 AM
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walterharp
73 posts
Oct 01, 2009
11:32 AM
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Here is a bit of the trio doing an original (no adam unfortunately)
http://www.gomemphis.com/videos/detail/listen-will-tucker-trio/
nice to see and hear young guys playing kick a** tunes!
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superchucker77
191 posts
Oct 01, 2009
4:04 PM
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Great track Mr. Gussow. I really like the grit in your tone on that one. By the way, I think I like when you sing it better ;)
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Brandon Bailey
Superchucker77's Youtube
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Elwood
155 posts
Oct 02, 2009
1:16 AM
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Can't buy it from the UK, I'm afraid.
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