Re: [Harp-L] Best shows ever seen (heard?) long, some harp

moandabluz@xxxxxxx · Mon, 23 Oct 2006 23:30:42 -0400

    Man... reading that brought back a memory, Tom, talk about feeling 
old. Lazy Bill Lucas... Rochester, Minnesota community college... I was 
just weeks into a job as a staff photographer for the daily newspaper 
and learning on the job because I kind over overstated my 
qualifications (though I did attend Brooks Institute out there where 
you live, for awhile).... anyway, as I digress.....  Maybe 25 people at 
this musical experience.. Lazy Bill and a couple of white guys... I had 
never heard live blues.. (Remember, I'm growing up along the 
Iowa/Minnesota border in the 50s)  .. I was so affected by the music... 
Plus I got a great picture of Lazy Bill Lucas...

 Harp content:  I started playing harp within a couple of years.. 
actually, I was fooling around with a harmonica and it was many more 
years before I figured out what harp was.

Steve "Moandabluz" Webb

always a fool for the harp
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Subject: [Harp-L] Best shows ever seen (heard?) long, some harp
   1970 Ann Arbor Blues Festival. I was 19. Hitchhiked there and back 
by myself from Santa Monica CA (which took a week each way.) Three days 
and nights of blues.Â

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 Roosevelt Sykes, Bukka White, Mighty Joe Young, Jimmy Dawkins, John 
Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, Hound Dog Taylor, Lazy Bill Lucas, Fred 
McDowell, Juke Boy Bonner, Luther Allison, Albert King, Robert Pete 
Williams, Johnny Shines, Big Walter Horton, Sunnyland Slim, Johnny 
Young, Dave Alexander, Big Joe Turner, Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson, Bobby 
"Blue" Bland, John Jackson, Papa Lightfoot, Little Brother Montgomery, 
Carey Bell, Buddy Guy, Otis Rush, Mance Lipscomb, Little Joe Blue, 
Lowell Fulson, Big Mama Thornton, Little Junior Parker and Son House.Â

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 (And nope, I didn't recall all those names from memory -- I still have 
the program. I hitchhiked home with it -- it's got Boone's Farm Apple 
Wine stains all over it. It's one of the two souvenirs I came home 
with... the other of which was easily cured with Penicillin.)Â

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--TB <--feeling old :)Â

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