[Harp-L] Re: Sonny Terry & JC

[RUSSEGR9@xxxxxx]

Hi all,

I have been away from the list a long time about 5 years (the burning issue 
at the time was the question Glenn W. brought to the list about the juke riff)  
I faded away when I istarted to play the 3 row accordion, yeah baby

although Paul B's east west album was the first recorded harp I recall really 
listening to, Sonny Terry was the first harp player I ever 
imitated/worshiped.  The first harp album I ever owned was a 12 inch folkways "Sonny Terry and 
his washboard band" which i stole from a record store while i was hitchhiking 
through colorado.  I forget the name of the song but you can clearly hear Sonny 
Terry say in there ""Play that one more time JC" 

I got to meet JC much later in San Francisco and our band of street musicians 
played in the same bar with him- he played solo of course."  But he took 
notice and smiled when I did a little whoopin and played some of that diggin my 
potatoes and wine headed woman stuff.

I got a copy of the tony little sun book, it was fun to look through and i 
learned info from it but i have never had any luck learning diatonic through 
books.  Chromatic is a different story and i taught myself to read music with the 
help of a larry adler book.

I heard howard levy play once in Montreal a while back and he really brought 
tears to my eyes.

John popper, im not a fan of his songs but i like his harp solos and i think 
he is an original harp player, he plays faster than i can, has control, and 
dosent sound like chicago blues.

The first time i heard mickey rafael play I was going to sleep with this girl 
and she put the album on, a half hour later she had to pull me from the 
stereo.  Wow

just some ramblings
Regards to all
Russ



In a message dated 8/31/2004 5:56:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
harp-l-request@xxxxxxxxxx writes: 
> His nephew, correct?
> --- Chris Michalek <Chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> >
> >have you heard JC Burris?
> 
>