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LittleNigel
2 posts
Jan 17, 2015
9:02 AM
I love the sound of one person making music with just a harp and their voice.
Such a performance is quite a challenge to carry off successfully.

Can harp fans offer some listening suggestions?
rogonzab
643 posts
Jan 17, 2015
9:11 AM
http://youtu.be/_Op5OqmZE6U?list=LLFASAzoDaink6lXtxtUaL6Q

Cant embed. I love this song!
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Little roger
56 posts
Jan 17, 2015
3:06 PM
Keith Dunn made a nice album a while back titled Alone With The Blues. Worth checking out!
Fil
15 posts
Jan 17, 2015
7:51 PM
Thoight I'd posted this earlier, but it disappeared. Anyway, another good example of what you are looking for.
fil

http://youtu.be/orenFpD076A
timeistight
1679 posts
Jan 17, 2015
9:30 PM


arnenym
336 posts
Jan 18, 2015
10:13 AM
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/keithdunn
http://www.keithdunn.com/
waltertore
2788 posts
Jan 18, 2015
11:17 AM
I find playing harp/vocals unaccompanied by other instruments to be easy. I feel the rhythm so it is easy to be on time. I have 100 or more on my site but you would have to sift through about 6,000 songs to find them. Most recently there are 2 that can be heard on the player below. As I type this they are songs #6&7
It takes a lifetime
cold winter air

By the end of the day they will most likely be bumped lower down because I recorded a bunch this morning that I will be posting. Walter
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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 in the Tunnel of Dreams Studio.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller

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Stokes Bay Slim
57 posts
Jan 18, 2015
12:25 PM
@waltertore-Absolutely lovely stuff, thankyou.
waltertore
2789 posts
Jan 18, 2015
6:31 PM
Slim: Thanks for the compliment. Walter
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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 in the Tunnel of Dreams Studio.
" life is a daring adventure or nothing at all" - helen keller

my videos

kham
22 posts
Jan 18, 2015
6:42 PM
Here's one I recorded 4 years ago... Seems like ages. Eric Bibb's Don't Let Nobody Drag Your Spirit Down.

shakeylee
11 posts
Jan 18, 2015
9:37 PM
i think,hands down,one of the best solo harmonica performers that i ever saw in my life is charlie sayles.

he doesn't always play solo,sometimes he plays with a second harmonicist and /or a drummer.

he played up and down the eastern seaboard for most of my life.he is truly great live.

often he plays with coins under his heels and taps on them,and sometimes he taps on a tambourine .he is raw,and real deal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odI3aL1aNrA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elkjdid5lQI
shakeylee
12 posts
Jan 18, 2015
9:47 PM
i remember years ago ,in the eighties,he had a bullet mic with a grille unlike any i have ever seen.i have never been able to track that mic down,and i have several hundred pounds of harmonica mics.this thing looked like the grille of a desoto.
mdazc
52 posts
Jan 19, 2015
5:16 AM



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Matt in Michigan.

Last Edited by mdazc on Jan 19, 2015 5:19 AM
shakeylee
16 posts
Jan 19, 2015
9:12 AM
another great solo artist,this one with a cool truck:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeMis-B7f58
shakeylee
17 posts
Jan 19, 2015
10:51 AM
the above video is of adam gussow
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shakeylee
18 posts
Jan 19, 2015
1:35 PM
another real nice one from adam gussow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYAL5tCJ-Rc
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sorin
351 posts
Jan 19, 2015
11:16 PM

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mr_so&so
897 posts
Jan 20, 2015
10:17 AM
@sorin Welcome back, sir. Very nicely done indeed, both vocals and harp. Lyrics are often hard to decipher from old recordings, though. I humbly suggest that the original lyrics for your second verse were something like "another man done gone to the county farm", meaning he's been taken away as a prisoner to the work farm. After slavery, wrongful imprisonment for purposes of getting cheap labourers was a common corrupt practice, I believe.
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mr_so&so
898 posts
Jan 20, 2015
10:20 AM
Now I'll stop commenting and just repost an original song I recorded last year.

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BronzeWailer
1581 posts
Jan 20, 2015
3:21 PM
I love this kind of stuff too. Here's one based on one of Bonny B.'s with a jam jar I recorded on the i-phone last night.





BronzeWailer's YouTube
kudzurunner
5264 posts
Jan 20, 2015
6:40 PM
Here's the Charlie Sayles solo clip that got me to book him for Hill Country Harmonica:

Last Edited by kudzurunner on Jan 20, 2015 6:40 PM
shakeylee
32 posts
Jan 20, 2015
9:44 PM
oh yeah!! that's the second one i had a link for.

the other guy i linked has a cool truck!!
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captainbliss
601 posts
Jan 21, 2015
7:43 AM
Rory McLeod!



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isaacullah
2920 posts
Jan 21, 2015
11:49 AM
Here's my one and only attempt at doing this kind of thing:


Singing is HARD!! Singing and playing is even harder! My hat is off to those of you who can do it well.

I agree with the OP that this is a very cool thing. In terms of someone who can pull it off, I think DW Gill can do it like no other:



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Stokes Bay Slim
58 posts
Jan 22, 2015
12:18 PM
More Charlie Sayles; sorry that it is harp vocal and percussion-but so well done I think.







I really like the Rory McLeod video, I saw him at a festival several years ago and he was a real force of nature. Gotta' say that I love this subject. Adam's solo stuff also always inspires, his take on Sunshine of your Love particularly.

Last Edited by Stokes Bay Slim on Jan 22, 2015 12:19 PM
Stokes Bay Slim
59 posts
Jan 23, 2015
4:39 AM
30 minutes alone with Keith Dunn and his harmonica.

HawkeyeKane
2685 posts
Jan 23, 2015
10:44 AM
Two vids of Corky Siegel....one solo, and one duo with Levy.





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Harmonicatunes
3 posts
Jan 24, 2015
3:15 PM
I do a solo harmonica show with a loop pedal, rhythm and lead harmonicas. It's called Cafe Harmonica, you can see it at http://cafeharmonica.com


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