[Harp-L] Duster Bennett

["Priest, Jim" <Jim.Priest@xxxxxx>]

Duster Bennett was a wonderful harp player... one of the best ever Brits
IMHO. I had the pleasure of seeing him live in the late 60s. He did
indeed play one-man-band style as Winslow rightly says... usually rack
harp, guitar, hi-hat and bass drum. hNever saw him use a stomp box but
that's not to say he didn't. He also played some fine chromatic blues.
He died in a car crash in March 1976 driving home from a gig with
Memphis Slim - appears to have fallen asleep at the wheel. Great loss.

As well as his harp playing he also wrote some fine songs... most
particularly Jumping at Shadows which Peter Green went on to record with
Fleetwood Mac. It's a wonderful haunting (and in Green's case eerily
prophetic) song.

He only released two albums but there are also a number of CDs of
previously unreleased material around. In the UK you'll find them at Red
Lick Records (www.redlick.co.uk) - elsewhere try Amazon

Jim
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The second guy has an English accent. He's been around; I don't know 
his age, but I'd say he's 60-70 by now. He's also a great player, and 
when I saw him, he played guitar at the same time as playing his 
harp. 
He also had a homemade stomp box for foot percussion, so he was 
actually doing a one man band thing that was great.

==========You *might be talking about Duster Bennett, a rack player 
who could really get around on harp. He played guitar and foot-pedal 
drums (maybe just hi-hat, maybe bass drum as well). He made about two 
albums' worth of recordings, some of which has been reissued, did a 
guest spot on a B.B. King album around 1970, then died in a car crash 
not long after.

Winslow


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