[Harp-L] Re: Sam Hinton

["Glenn Weiser" <celticguitar1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi-

Sam Hinton is an amazing and completely unique harmonica player. I first 
heard about him from the editor of Sing Out!-they did a story on him a while 
back. Then, when George Winston came through town here a few years back, he 
invited me to one of his concerts. Backstage, he told he he was a longtime 
reader of my Sing Out! harmonica columns and gave me a Sam Hinton CD, which 
he had produced. On Winston's suggestion, I started a transcription of the 
Downfall of Paris, but it was insanely hard to get down on paper accurately 
, as Hinton uses straight tongueblocked chords on his 10-hole diatonica as 
well as octave splits ranging from 3 to 5 holes. I never finished the 
tranascription because my editor said he couldn't give me enough space to 
run the whole thing.
Winston is a fine harmonica player as well, but I think his producer was 
right in that his remarkable piano playing probably has a more broad-based 
appeal.

Glenn Weiser
www.celticguitarmusic.com