Fwd: Re: [Harp-L] Mike Stevens

["Winslow Yerxa" <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yup, just another Canadian boy crazy into harp.

Mike plays in a bluegrass context for the most part, yet his main
influences are pre-war southern blues players. And he makes extensive
use of overblows - a fairly unusual combination.

He's a really nice cat, too. I've met him a few times at SPAH festivals.

Another oddity is that for a mostly acoustic player he's quite a
gearhead and was all over Mr. Downchild's microphone booth trying to
restrain himself from flashing the cash. He encouraged me to buy a
vintage Shure 545 that he liked, and I continue to use and enjoy it.

Winslow

--- In harp-l-archives@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Pierre <plavio@...> wrote:


Richard Hunter said:

By the way, I forgot to mention Mike Stevens, whose playing has been
heard on dozens of Grand Ole Opry broadcasts, in my previous list of
prominent country harmonica players.

Mike Stevens is awsome, he was in Montreal last summer for a "trad" music 
festival here (with  guitar/banjo player Raymond McLain) and he is
without 
peers. It's unfortunate, his name hardly gets mentioned on the list.
Mike is 
really hot!

Pierre.





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Hunter" <turtlehill@...>
To: <harp-l@...>
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 8:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Blues And C&W


> Aeskow@... wrote:
> <And in reference to a recent series of threads, it's important to
point 
> <out that the black influence--specifically, the African one--on
country 
> <music and bluegrass can hardly be overstated..."
>
> I worked with Charlie McCoy on a project for Oak Publications in
1980, and 
> the first thing McCoy told me was that when he came to Nashville, he
was 
> mainly a guitar player, and secondly a harmonica player whose
playing was 
> completely out of Little Walter. He told me that he still listened to 
> Little Walter whenever his own playing was stuck in a rut, and he
always 
> found something to inspire him there.
>
> The second thing he told me was that he discovered after a little while 
> that Walter's style was not right for Nashville, and at that point 
> Charlie -- who is a very, very smart guy -- set out to develop the 
> smoother style that defined country harmonica for decades.
>
> By the way, I forgot to mention Mike Stevens, whose playing has been
heard 
> on dozens of Grand Ole Opry broadcasts, in my previous list of
prominent 
> country harmonica players.
>
>
> Regards, Richard Hunter
> hunterharp.com
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