Re: [Harp-L] Re: Rockabilly Harmonica

[Moandabluz@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 8/5/05 2:51:07 PM, clay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:


> Merle Haggard or Johnny
> Cash, when they love Johnny Winters, John Lee Hooker, or Muddy Waters...I 
> never
> understood.
> 
   Personal choice, is, of course one's own doing. Me personally, I loved 
Johnny Cash and I have a load of Haggard music.   But John Lee H ooker and Muddy 
Waters, because I grew up on country music, took me a   little while to get. 
That was years ago, though, and I'm now just a liable to listen to Muddy as to 
Cash or Haggard. 
Does anyone else think perhaps our musical tastes change as we age? Do our 
brains get imprinted at an early age and then anything different is harder to 
absorb? Music's effect on people has always interested me. Why do I like the 
sound of harp so much, while others dislike it? Why do some people with 
absolutely no musical ability, nor any idea of how it is produced, still become some of 
its strongest fans? I've seen people who couldn't tap a foot in time or hum a 
simple melody in tune who can't get enough music. 
Food for my thought, anyway.
Still a fool for the Harp
Steve 'Moandabluz' Webb