[Harp-L] Don't know how I missed this guy!

[Mick Zaklan <mzaklan@xxxxxxxxx>]

   Hit the Chicago Blues Fest yesterday and ran across this guy as a
sideman in Bob Stroger's set.  Never saw or heard of him before, but he was
laying down a lot of lines that I don't ever believe I've heard used
against a blues progression.  And he was playing better rhythm stuff than
either of the two guitarists in the band.  Nothing I found on YouTube
matches what I heard him play yesterday, but these two tracks are pretty
good:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0Df592nWgQ.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYC2aMxP0es.

   Wouldn't mind seeing him at a SPAH convention in the near future, I
think he's got a great upside.  Couldn't get a read on his age.  He
could've been in his 20's or 40's.  I ran into fellow list member Chuck
Faron shortly afterwards and the first words out of his mouth were; "How
about Omar Coleman back there?"

Mick Zaklan