Re: Keith Dunn

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I was lucky enough to be in touch with Keith just as his CD was released,
and I reviewed it for Planet Harmonica early on. Although the CD is
outstanding, I was further lucky enough to contribute to the Condat
Harmonica Festival booking him a couple of years back.

His live performance was nothing short of breathtaking. Never before had I
felt so close to the "real thing", and amazingly enough, despite the
apparent unattractiveness of the setup (a guy alone on a stage playing harp,
singing and tapping his foot and NOTHING ELSE for an hour, the whole
audience was on its feet at the end of each number.

Man, that was something I won't forget soon...

Talking politics and food with him in a restaurant in Limoges wasn't bad
either !

Ben FELTEN, Editor
www.planetharmonica.com



- ----- Original Message -----
From: <HASHBB@xxxxxxx>
To: <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2004 10:21 PM
Subject: Re: Keith Dunn


> In a message dated 06-May-04 12:21:43 PM Central Daylight Time,
> IcemanLE@xxxxxxx writes:
>
>
> > To all of you who are discovering Keith for the 1st time, make the next
> > step and order his CD from his website.
> >
> > He has much integrity and talent in this pursuit of a pure form of
harmonica
> > expression and is a full time harmonica/vocalist musician. Purchasing
will
> > not only upgrade your CD collection at home, but will also help support
him in
> > his endeavors.
> >
> > The Iceman
>
> Keith is a personal friend who I have known since the early
> 80's. He does play big river harps, which he tunes himself
> with the help of a Lee Oscar tuning kit which Lee gave to Keith.
> The CD alone with the blues has been out for a few years, but it is still
> really fresh and has withstood the test of time. It also is one of the
only
> harp
> recordings in modern times I can think of where the whole CD is solo work,
> just harp and vocal. Keith has a long history in the blues community both
on
> the east coast and Austin,Tx areas, he even did a stint with Roomful of
blues
> as the featured vocalist.
> regards,
> HB
>