[Harp-L] Re:Now Favorite Kim Wilson CD's

[Dan <billybudd1313@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Smokin' Joint" is my favorite Kim Wilson CD. 
   
  Following  onto Sam's comment... I think Kim's approach is very Walter-like, but it's gone way past imitation.  This is a hard thing to type without raising eyebrows.  I'll try to explain more:
   
  In my mind, Kim is very creative, intricate, suprising, and smooth on the diatonic harp.  He comes up with so many licks/phrases.  I see those same traits as a large component of  Walter's greatness. Kim sounds like Kim, but he can invoke L. Walter.
   
  As for "Ludella"  I was told of this CD in 1997,and didn't know how to find it for years.  Once I got it, I knew why the harp player who suggested it sounded like a relligious zealot.  (..."dude, you HAVE to get this CD...")
   
   It is a textbook for backing Chicago Blues on harp.  The first time I met Kim Wilson, he reccomended Jimmy Rogers'  "Chicago Bound" as a must-study for Chicago blues harp.  Listening to "Chicago Bound", then "Ludella", I think, helps to clarify what I'm trying to say above.
   
  Dan G.
  Message: 25        
   Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:18:54 -0400
   From: "samblancato" <samblancato@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Harp-L] Re:Now Favorite Kim Wilson CD's (Kim Wilson show on 
4-13-06)

Yeah, Kim Wilson is just about my favorite player too.  I saw your list 
of
favorite KW CDs.  I'm not familiar with Ludella.  I just wanted to 
mention
the CD "That's Life".  The last song on the CD, "Low Down" is awesome.  
I
spent one summer just learning that song, and studying it taught me 
more
than any other group of harp solos combined.  To me this song is 
classic Kim
Wilson; he doesn't sound like Little Walter or anybody else and doesn't 
have
to.