From: "Planet Harmonica" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Rick Dempster" <rick.dempster@xxxxxxxxxxx>, <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>,"Ryan Hartt" <rhartt1234@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Carribean Harmonica
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 12:12:45 +0200
There's a carribean track on Mick Kinsella's Harmonica called "Take Me Home". Very nice, and very impressive once you try and figure out what he's playing. Apparently, it's a cover of an older Rory McLeod tune, but I've never heard the original tune.
Not exactly trad. Carribean players, but may be worth a check anyway !
Ben FELTEN http://harmonica.typepad.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Rick Dempster To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx ; Ryan Hartt Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 3:55 AM Subject: RE: [Harp-L] Carribean Harmonica
Thanks Ryan! I'll check this stuff out. RD
>>> "Ryan Hartt" <rhartt1234@xxxxxxxxxxx> 13/10/2006 11:33:56 >>> I've been meaning to bring up a similar point for quite some time. I've been on a huge Ska kick for a little over a year now. And there is a decent
amount of harmonica in traditional Jamaican Ska. Roy Richards' "Contact" being the foremost example since it was the biggest hit. The other harmonica player of note is Charlie Organaire with "Go Home" and "Merry Twist (Boogie)" which are both on Trojan Battlefield on Trojan. There are several more songs I have in my collection that feature harmonica but the player is unknown to me. With a quick click through my iTunes I found: "Rough & Tough" - Stranger Cole "Midnight Track" - Owen Gray "But Officer" - Karl Walker "When You Call My Name" - Stranger & Patsy "Musical Communion" - Baba Brooks Most of which come from Rough & Tough - The Story Of Ska: 1960-1966. Most of the playing is just chordal work doubling the upstrokes on the guitar.
I too wish there was more with harmonica on it and more info about it. Ska was such a singles market that it is tough to find albums buy anyone but the few that made it big like Desmond Dekker and the Skatalites. I suggest the Trojan 3 CD collections for anyone looking to check out some Ska, harmonica or not. The Trojan Jamaican R&B box is particularly acessible for blues
fans. Ryan
>From: "Rick Dempster" <rick.dempster@xxxxxxxxxxx> >To: "Winslow Yerxa" <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx> >CC: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx >Subject: [Harp-L] Carribean Harmonica >Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:40:10 +1000 > >Hi Winslow; > Hope you don't mind the direct inquiry; if anyone else >on the list has anything to add, I'd be pleased to hear. > A few years ago, if my memory serves me, you responded >to a post I made regarding a Jamaican harmonica player called Roy Richards, >who worked with Baba Brook's band and had a hit in 1967 (probably a hit in >Jamaica and UK) called 'Contact'. > I've since tried to track down something else by him, but >there is nothing out there, apart from the odd bit of accompaniement. > Chances are that everything I want to here from Roy is >encapsulated on that one track anyway. But it has caused me to wonder what >kind of status the harmonica had in the West Indies. > I have heard the odd track here and there, one on a >chromatic, played in first position (Richards plays a tremolo model) > I wonder that there isn't more. You'd think a cheap >instrument would have found popularity in the Carribean. > I seem to recall you had some names, but I may be >confusing you with someone else. > If the harmonica (being British colonies they might have >called it 'mouth organ' in Jamaica & Trinidad) was not popular in that
>corner of the world, I wonder what the reason was. The music of the old >Calypsonians might have been considered the preserve of more sophisticated >players who could play 'proper' instruments, but the area of music occupied >by steel pan players ie more 'street' style would have suited harmonica, >and Roy Richard's playing falls into that camp in my opinion. > Woddyareckon? >RD > > >_______________________________________________ >Harp-L is sponsored by SPAH, http://www.spah.org >Harp-L@xxxxxxxxxx >http://harp-l.org/mailman/listinfo/harp-l
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