[Harp-L] Harp Style - Sam Myers

["Mike Snowden" <mike.snowden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This week's "Paul Jones" blues show on BBC Radio 2 featured multiple tracks
by this artist; despite seeing his funeral details here, I can't consciously
remember hearing him since I got into Blues Harp, though this is something I
will soon rectify via my Amazon habit...

This show is available for a week on "Listen again" - see
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/jones/playlist.shtml

>From around 30 min - It stats with two:

Title: Sleeping In The Ground
Artist: Sammy Myers
Album: Harp Blues
Label: Ace CDCHD 710

Title: You Don't Have To Go
Artist: Sam Myers
Album: The Fire/Fury Records Story
Label: Capricorn 942009-2

The first track has an outrageous blow bend solo
Then there's a short bio, followed by

Title: My Heart Cries Out For You
Artist: Anson Funderburgh & The Rockets
Album: Through The Years, A Retrospective
Label: Black Top CDBT-1077

Then finally

Title: My Daily Wish
Artist: Sam Myers
Album: Coming From The Old School
Label: Electro-Fi E-Fi3383


One thing common to all the solos, is use a very rich & fast either
shake/very deep vibrato - I can't tell which (shake or vibrato, let alone
which vibrato technique), or work out why it sounds so rich.  Can anyone
explain what he's doing?  It seems to be very characteristic of his playing,
and sounds amazing...  I suspect at least some of it is the growl from a
good amp/mike combo, but this is an area I have little experience in.

TIA,

	Mike