wolfkristiansen
302 posts
Jul 27, 2014
3:04 AM
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We all know this. Talking about music is good, making music is better. Tonight, I'm in the mood to have people listen to my music rather than ponder my thoughts about music.
For a decade and a half, I've had the good fortune to be able to play with a very good singer/piano player, Karin Ljungh. She has a great blues feel and a great sense of rhythm. She writes bluesy songs. She inspires me.
We made a CD. Some of it is on YouTube. Here are three YouTube videos from that CD, all with my harp somewhere in each video. I've posted some of these videos, and all of the music, in Dirty-South Blues Harp forum in earlier years; but I want to let new members know who I am-- through my harp, not my words.
My playing is melodic; that's just me. I've been playing blues for 40 years, so my style is pretty much set in stone. I don't practice. I will walk into a gig without having picked up the harp for a month. My next gig is at the Oceanview Hotel, Prince Rupert, on August 15 and 16.
The harp solos in these songs were done in one take, without me knowing what I was going to play until I played it. The harp solo in Merry Christmas Baby was done in the producer's basement during my lunch hour. I rushed back to work as soon as it was done.
All of the harp solos are acoustic, recorded into a studio quality microphone. I love amplified harp, but these recordings made me wonder if my style is better suited to acoustic playing-- more detail comes out.
Enough talk. Have a look and listen:
Karin Ljungh - Livin' In the City of Rainbows.
Karin wrote this one, she tells me, in twenty minutes. We've played it numerous times in public.
Karin Ljungh - It's Christmas Time
Karin wrote this one too. I have a short harp solo at the 1:30 mark of the video.
Karin Ljungh - Merry Christmas Baby
An old blues standard. You'll see a picture of my gray haired self, and hear my harp, around the 2:30 mark of the video.
I'm not really looking for responses, criticisms or compliments, though you may if you wish; it's all good. I wanted new forum members to get a better idea of where I'm coming from, musically.
Thank you for looking and listening!
Cheers,
wolf kristiansen
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