[Harp-L] Re: Popper (was Ben and Frank)

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Ben sez:

<<I can't imagine loving BT and hating the harp though, especially as a 
harp
player, that must be horrible ! I feel for you, man !>>

Oh. I don't hate his harp; it just doesn't do anything for me. And I 
should have added, that I'm not much of a BT fan now. I started liking 
them .... golly...1992-ish. I was with them until the release of Four. I 
liked Four enough, but it was already progressing into a kind of music 
that I was having less and less room for in my life. The the live album 
came out "From the fall" I think it was called, which was OK. I bought 
Straight on Til Morning on the day it was released...and I haven't bought 
one since. I just can't care anymore. (although one of the four times I 
saw them was after that album came out.) I wasn't playing harmonica when I 
started liking them and I don't feel that I really matured into a real 
aficionado of the instrument until after seeing both Madcat and Buddy 
Greene and consecutive Beanblossom Bluesfests. After that I really haven't 
turned back from the kinds of harp I love. Phil Wiggins, Sonny Terry, 
Buddy Greene, Madcat, Jimmy McFadden, and Charlie McCoy, (Howlin Wolf, too 
holds a special place in my heart) . I love all the Chicago greats too but 
they come second to my first love.

But your sympathies are much appreciated. Thank you.