JustFuya
553 posts
Sep 17, 2014
7:23 PM
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Not who's skill you would like to have. Which harp player actually moves you? Vocals are allowed as criteria even if you don't do them yourself.
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CarlA
597 posts
Sep 17, 2014
7:41 PM
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Ted Burke
201 posts
Sep 17, 2014
7:51 PM
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Diggsblues
1559 posts
Sep 18, 2014
8:12 AM
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Butterfield !!!! His tone and phrasing incredible.
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Rgsccr
282 posts
Sep 18, 2014
9:37 AM
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From song to song, for me, it's Sonny Boy II. Mr. Down Child, My Younger Days, Help Me, Nine Below Zero ... all of them hit me every time I hear them. For a single song, though, it's Little Walter on the Baby Face Leroy tune Rollin and Tumblin. James Cotton also gets me with everything he does, along with Paul deLay and Alan Wilson.
Here is Sonny Boy II doing Nine Below Zero - just too cool for words.
http://youtu.be/WBW9hYLsSHE
Last Edited by Rgsccr on Sep 18, 2014 9:39 AM
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The Iceman
2076 posts
Sep 18, 2014
10:16 AM
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Paul deLay...guess I like the modern approach.
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JustFuya
558 posts
Sep 18, 2014
12:14 PM
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I'm partial to SBII. Also like Jerry McCain's 'modern' approach. He goes softly into unexpected areas and is not repetitious.
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Ted Burke
204 posts
Sep 18, 2014
12:54 PM
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The late Ken Schoppmeyer was a local harmonica master in San Diego who played the local scene for decades with various versions of his crack band, King Biscuit Blues. I saw him I don't know how many times from the early seventies to the late eighties and , truth be told, I don't think I've ever heard a more perfect harmonica player in terms of tone, phrasing, melodic flow and finding the right emotional level for the tune he happened to be playing. There are some videos of him playing on YouTube ; this one is good example of how good he could be.
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BronzeWailer
1454 posts
Sep 18, 2014
3:33 PM
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SBWII all the time. He put more feeling into one note than most put into ten.
BronzeWailer's YouTube
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atty1chgo
1132 posts
Sep 18, 2014
4:55 PM
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Carey Bell.
Last Edited by atty1chgo on Sep 18, 2014 4:57 PM
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Goldbrick
688 posts
Sep 18, 2014
5:29 PM
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Gotta go with Sonny Terry
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Frank
5318 posts
Sep 18, 2014
5:48 PM
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TBird
72 posts
Sep 20, 2014
1:18 PM
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Maybe it's because I've spent so much time learning at his feet, but… what can I say… the guy moves me.
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TBird
74 posts
Sep 21, 2014
10:32 AM
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…also, Lee Sankey moves me. Again, probably because I've learned so much from him.
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wolfkristiansen
325 posts
Sep 22, 2014
3:02 AM
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Your best match from the heart. Thank you for posing the question, JustFuya, (Really, just for me?)
"From the heart" is what blues is about.
Non harp-playing singers have moved me more than harp players. Tommy McClennan, Robert Johnson, Brownie McGhee, Taj Mahal and Shirley Horn have moved me to tears at one time or another in my life.
I know Taj plays harp. He is a singer, first and foremost, though.
To answer your question-- Little Walter's singing moves me as much, if not more, than his harmonica playing.
Here's his singing and harp, remembering always that singing trumps harp:
Cheers,
wolf kristiansen
Last Edited by wolfkristiansen on Sep 22, 2014 3:03 AM
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