Re: [Harp-L] Satan and Adam - welcome news

["Winslow Yerxa" <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is such welcome news.

I remember first encountering Satan and Adam at a SPAH festival about 
ten years ago. Adam's integration of overbending into blues playing 
seemed like a refreshing take on the style and a welcome rebuke to 
the oft-repeated claim that the technique was somehow soulless. 
Mister Satan himself was a revelation, with his quirky musical 
structures and lyrics and his charismatic, yet enigmatic personality.

A few years later I remember reading Adam's book "Mister Satan's 
Apprentice", a great read and a valued addition to the literature of 
American musical life - I wouldn't hesitate to place it beside 
Ellington's "Music is my Mistress" or Mingus' "Beneath the Underdog" 
on my bookshelf.

Later I remember reading Adam's distressing magazine accounts of 
Mister Satan's decline and disappearance and the seeming hopelessness 
of the situation.

SO I'm very glad to see that he - and they - are back and performing 
together again. Hope to get to hear them if they can make it out to 
the west coast.

Winslow


--- In harp-l-archives@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Mark Wilson" 
<markwilson53@xxxx> wrote:

<forwarded from Adam Gussow>

 " It was great to see some of you this past Friday
 night at
 the Gulfport Casino in Gulfport, Fla. at the "Boca
 Ball."
 As promised, Sterling "Mr. Satan" Magee and I made
 our
 initial comeback gig.  

<Read Mark's post for the rest.>