Re: [Harp-L] Harp Style - Sam Myers

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Sammy didn't use much vibrato, not that he couldn't or didn't, he just 
preferred not to use it much, so I am asuming that you mean his use of 
a good shake or warble. Since different amps we're used on all these 
sessions, I would say it is Sammy's great tone that you
are alluding to. His overall tone could be very breathy to me, but he 
could make it sound deep and full when ever he felt the need to use 
that effect. BTW, Sam never did get much money for 'Sleeping in the 
ground', which was covered by Clapton(Blind Faith, Robert Cray, Canned 
Heat and others.
HB

-----Original Message-----
From: mike.snowden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: harptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 8:09 PM
Subject: [Harp-L] Harp Style - Sam Myers

   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

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