[Harp-L] Homesick James passes

["steve" <mudharp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I've been off the thread for a few weeks so forgive me if it's already been mentioned.

Apparently, Homesick James, died on Dec. 13th.  He was the main reason Snooky Pryor came out of retirement in the late 60's.  
There's only a couple of Bluesman left that were born before 1910 and sadly we just lost one. 

I'll bet he was quite saddened that his 60+ year buddy, Snooky, had passed.

I remember James Harman making a guest appearance at Long Beach State College's Carpenter Performing Arts Center about 6 years ago.  
On the bill for that night called "BLues Unplugged" was Homesick James, Pinetop Perkins, Ike Turner and Alvin Youngblood Hart.  Hart said he was so overwhelmed  from the  presence of these old guys that he didn't even belong there.  Humble dude.

I remember when Gary "Wagman" Wagner introduced Homesick he asked him, "Homesick, I want you to tell the crowd what you told me when I askeed you at the airport how you've kept going all these years?"  Homesick said, "Young womens!"  The crowd was in an uproar.  

He claimed to be born in 1905, but some hospital records say 1910 with his birth name, but he says it isn't him.  Who knows?

He claimed in the late 1920's to have installed a  pickup and speaker to his guitar from a reel to reel and that that was the first electric guitar.  


steve
www.thunderharpmics.com 

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