Fwd: Re: TB in 30 min/day...(was IICDIAO)

["Winslow Yerxa" <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

After Blues Birdhead's 1929 recording of Mean Low Blues, there are no 
recorded overblows that I know of until 1968. I have heard at least 
one claim for use after 1929 and before 1968 but no-one has produced 
any evidence.

In 1968, we get Will Scarlett recording overblows with Hot Tuna, 
Toots Thielemans using them on filler cuts on some of his pop-
oriented solo albums, and that year or the next, Paul Oscher 
recording them on a Muddy Waters record. Then, another 10 or 12 years 
elapse before Howard Levy turns everyone's head.

Winslow

- --- In harp-l-archives@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, <lists@xxxx> wrote:

> Has anyone else heard what Mark Crowley asserts? Mark, do you know
> what recordings these OBs are on? Could you please cite a couple
> instances - I've got to get hold of that!

There's a "famous" 1929 recording of Blues Birdhead's : "Mean Low 
Blues"
which features a sustained ob6, I believe. It's probably excessive to 
say
that teh technique was widely used, though.

As for HL "inventing them", there's ample evidence to the contrary, 
from the
early Hot Tuna recordings with Will Scarlett (1972, is it ?) to Mike 
Turk's
stuff with Papa John Kolstad (1975 ?)

Howard pushed the technique further than anyone had before, for sure, 
but
there were others on that particular bandwagon ;-)

Ben FELTEN, Editor
www.planetharmonica.com



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