Re: Re: [Harp-L] Name That Tume.... Please/Harp in Western swing

["Rick Dempster" <rick.dempster@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes; that was the first time I'd heard him, and I was impressed.
'Eighteen Wheels' was the track, I think, though there may have been
more. This is great playing, but has nothing to do with 'western swing'
("a bad handle" as Merle haggard once said) Cody & the Airmen did verge
on a WS sound at times, but they were really a honky tonk/country boogie
outfit with some 'hot' players (specifically Bobby Black on steel and
Andy Stein on  fiddle)
This is not just being picky about terminology; playing a melodically
driven solo based on harmonic changes is what distinguishes the kind of
soloing found in, say, Cliff Bruner's Texas Wanderers or Bob Will's
Texas Playboys from Gid Tanner & the Skillet Lickers or the Delmore
Brothers etc.
It's like comparing Charlie McCoy to Toots Thielemann. 
RD


>>> Garry Hodgson <garry@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 5/08/2007 9:16 >>>
"Rick Dempster" <rick.dempster@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>               Chances are that putting a harmonica in an 'authentic
> western swing band'  means that no-one will think it is 'authentic
> western swing' anymore.

can't vouch for authenticity, but norton buffalo played some great
harp
with commander cody on "we've got a live one here".

----
Garry Hodgson, Senior Software Geek, AT&T CSO

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do something.

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