[Harp-L] Re: Pulling Hair Blues



It's on "Live in Europe 1970", the last official Canned Heat lp that featured Alan Wilson.  It
wasn't Canned Heat at their best, (Henry "Sunflower" Vestine had been temporarily replaced by
Harvey "The Snake" Mandel), but a few years back it was remastered and reissued on CD with some
additional tracks.  If you can find the CD and if you already have all the other Alan Wilson
albums, its worth having.  The CD has a couple of other good harp tracks in addition to "Pulling
Hair Blues".


--- Planet Harmonica <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Which record is this on ?
> 
> Benoit
> 
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> From: "jazmaan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <dmf273@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 4:07 AM
> Subject: [Harp-L] Pulling Hair Blues
> 
> 
> > Just listened to Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson's live rendition of "Pulling Hair 
> > Blues" recorded during
> > his last tour of Europe in 1970.  Accompanied only by Larry "The Mole" 
> > Taylor on bass, the Blind
> > Owl plays harmonica and sings a dark disturbing blues about his own mental 
> > illness.   "I should be
> > having more fun travelling all around the world" he begins. But he's so 
> > tormented by insomnia and
> > depression that he's literally pulling his own hair out. "The train rides 
> > are too long, and its
> > raining all the time.  And there's just no relief for my troubled mind." 
> > It sounds like he's just
> > singing the blues, but its a lot more serious than that.  A few months 
> > later he would commit
> > suicide.
> >
> > His harp playing, as always, is spare and understated without a single 
> > superfluous or misplaced
> > note.  He's the Miles Davis of harmonica using rests and silence to great 
> > effect combined with an
> > awesome mastery of vibrato, rips and shifting harmonies within 
> > doublestops.
> >
> >
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