Harp Study
126 posts
Aug 18, 2015
7:14 PM
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Lately I'm really getting into Terry McMillan's playing and was wondering if anyone knows any good albums that he plays on? I've got the "Nashville Harmonicas" album and love it, but I'm wondering about some of his session work where he is playing more of an accompanying role. It seems more difficult than it should be in this internet age to find songs like this, but I'm having trouble; so any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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hooktool
168 posts
Aug 18, 2015
11:10 PM
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Celinda Pink-"Victimized". It was my favorite album for a year or two.
John
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Martin
860 posts
Aug 19, 2015
4:11 AM
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He is fairly prominent on a George Jones live album that I´ve got ... somewhere. Could be from the 80´s.
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NiteCrawler .
327 posts
Aug 19, 2015
4:24 AM
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Check out Terry McMillan and Larry Carlton together on the Renegade Gentleman Cd,Great Stuff.
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2chops
416 posts
Aug 19, 2015
4:32 AM
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If I'm not mistaken, I think he did the harp work on the Randy Travis album that had "Honkey Tonk Moon" on it too.
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Blind Melon
57 posts
Aug 19, 2015
9:39 AM
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Check out "I've Got A Feeling" (1993). It is a Gospel CD but his playing is great.
I bought the CD a couple years ago on eBay.
You can get a taste of the CD by checking out Terry performing two of the songs from the CD live on YouTube. Search Terry McMillan and "Amazing Grace" and "This Train".
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Harp Study
127 posts
Aug 19, 2015
9:47 AM
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All right! Some great suggestions here. I will for sure look into all these. Thanks so much.
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Todd Parrott
1346 posts
Aug 19, 2015
9:00 PM
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He also had an album called, "Somebody's Comin'" which is a mixture of gospel and other tunes, and even features Michael McDonald on some tracks. The project is more of a vocal CD with lots of harp in the background as well as solos. As for gospel albums, he was all over them in the 80's and 90's. That's how I learned to play accompaniment harp growing up.
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The Iceman
2623 posts
Aug 20, 2015
6:08 AM
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How many knew that Terry was a world class percussionist as well, playing in jazz bands?
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Bilzharp
100 posts
Aug 20, 2015
11:24 AM
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Good singer too. Producers loved him. He had a real knack for coming up with just what they wanted in the studio on harmonica and knocking it out in one or two takes. Then he could stick around to record percussion or BGVs. A great utility player. I just wish the engineers hadn't garbled so much of his tasty playing with a harmonizer effect. I guess that was the Nashville harmonica sound of the 80's. I don't know if it was a production thing or a Terry McMillan thing.
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