Re: [Harp-L] Play Horny

[fjm <mktspot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Made me look.  The mention of Low Rider got me to slide some WAR into 
the cd player.  I don't hear the sax at all until the end.  Lee just 
plays that repeating Low Rider riff over and over again.  It's brilliant 
in its restraint.  In fact I think it may be why he and Mickey Raphael 
have enjoyed such popular success.  Their willingness to play a role in 
an ensemble.  Hearing War again makes me realise that I do need to track 
down a copy of Live War just for the Slippin' into Darkness harmonica 
solo.  I'm just amazed by how disciplined both Lee Oskar and Mickey 
Raphael's playing is.  Lately I find I'm more attracted to restraint in 
playing than I am to wild abandon.  Returning from an out of town gig 
last weekend we had the Jimmy Rogers anthology CD in the player.  Willie 
Nelson had a cover in their somewhere, Mickey Raphael brilliantly 
playing maybe 4-5 notes on an Echo in G then switching to a normal 
diatonic later in the tune, again just a couple of notes.  fjm