Re: [Harp-L] Bob Dylan on his harp playing

[Jp "Pagán" <jpl_pagan@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- In harp-l-archives@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Glenn Weiser"
<celticguitar1@xxxx> wrote:
> On the Rolloing Stone website, there's an interview
with Dylan about his new
> book, "Chronicles: Volume One" The interviwer,
Austin Scaggs, asked him a
> bout his harmonica playing at one point:
> 
>"I don't really need to listen to what I'm
> playing. Of course, I can tell if I'm playing it
wrong, when it's not going
> to appeal to anybody. It might on a technological
level, but it won't on a
> gut level.... Someone can always play it better, but
you've
> heard a lot of great musicians where it sounds great
at the time, but you
> forget about it two minutes later. I stay away from
that showoff thing."


i recently came across this on the net, and after
seeing this post i thought it apropos. it's a list
someone compiled of what they thought were the "best
uses of harmonica" in contemporary music. it's an
interesting perspective - looking at the harmonica not
as a harp player, but as someone who appreciates music
in a broader sense. of course, the notion that there's
a "use" for harmonica (imagine a list of the "best
uses of a piano") is bothersome, but it's a reality to
be dealt with. even some harp players will tell you
not every song needs harmonica. (blasphemy!)  anyway,
here it is:

http://www.upstatelink.com/entertainment/2004/04/26/2004042629984.htm

topping the list is Bob Dylan of course, though maybe
for a song no one would expect: Girl From the North
Country. the rest of the list is:

G Love and Special Sauce
Comin' Home

Junior Wells
Hoodoo Man Blues

The Beatles
I Should Have Known Better

Bruce Springsteen
Empty Sky

Beck
Painted Eyelids

Neil Young
Sugar Mountain

Willie Nelson
Night Life

The Doors
Roadhouse Blues

RL Burnside
It's Bad You Know

My Morning Jacket
Death Is The Easy Way

Ugly Casanova
Spilled Milk Factory

what do y'all think?

  --Jp

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