Do we have any Robert Cooksey specialists here? There's one note (it's repeated) on Leecan & Cooksey's Need More Blues that's got me intrigued.
Need More Blues (recorded in 1926) features first position F (!) harmonica. At a few points in the tune (either in bar 7, when were back in the F chord, or in bar 10, coming down from the V) Cooksey plays a six- or seven-note descending run that starts on the blow 10. But the blow 10 isn't F, it's bent down a half-step so it's an E. And there's a little coda at the end, with triplets, that starts and finishes on this same note, a half-step-bent blow 10. It's infernally difficult to do, especially on an F harp.
At no point in the tune does he play a natural F in hole 10. So is he blow-bending the note, or is his 10-hole blow reed a semitone flat?? I like to think the latter.
Thanks for your thoughts. It's not a recording speed issue as the rest of it's in pitch, in F. You mean the Yahoo album? I have it on CD (in the UK), so it's out there, somewhere. Check out Discogs. And please share your Hummel condundrum! At least that one's "modern"!
Its only one of his 12 bar go rounds ---but it has a very different choice of notes. I love that kind of stuff---it forces me to go away from my normal note choices.
been workin on it on n off for a week---its 12 bar 185bpm 0r close----kinda works with all faster jump swing or shuffle---
will work on rod piazza "Juicy harp"---W clark "LOllipop Mama"----rocker L Walter
Im gonna post break down of it in week or so---I'll use my own tab formula
Off topic but if yr into fast Jump swing check out Juicy harp worked on that for a year on n off--
My mom would have wanted me to know, so i looked it up conundrum "a confusing and difficult problem or question"
