Re: [Harp-L] Harmonica & Guitar duos, past and present

["Vern Smith" <jevern@xxxxxxx>]

Enrico Granafei did a great gig playing latin jazz at the '96 Garden State 
Harmonica Festival playing Hands-Free-Chromatic on a rack with classical 
guitar.

The long list of harp-guitar duos proves what an ideal combination the two 
instruments comprise with their contrasting sounds.  The guitar contributes 
bass, rhythm, chords, and occasionally a harmony line in a mellow timbre of 
decaying loudness. The harp provides sustained notes in a raspier, reedy 
timbre.  The guitar does not overwhelm unamplified harmonica as does a 
piano.

This raises a question.  Do you call harmonica with self-accompaniment on 
guitar a "solo" or a "duet"?

Vern
Visit my harmonica website www.Hands-Free-Chromatic.7p.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Winslow Yerxa" <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 10:52 AM
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Harmonica & Guitar duos, past and present


> There's Steve Baker and Abi Wallenstein
>
> And if we want to go beyond blues, we could mention
>
> Donald Black and Malcolm Jones (Glasgow)
>
> Donald Black and Donny Mackenzie (Glasgow and SPAH2005)
>
> Mark Graham and Orville Johnson (Seattle)
>
> Gilles Garand and Peter Senn (Montreal)
>
> (This gets me to musing on a duo I had with a Cree guitarist named Joe
> Chicken for a few weeks one summer around 1970. We would just sit down
> and start to play. Out would come a tune neither of us had ever heard
> before, but as we played it we would learn it pretty quick, and then
> we'd forget it once it was done.)
>
> Winslow
>
> --- Peter and Connie Ruth <conruth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > I've part of the harmonica & guitar duo: Madcat & Kane (with
> > guitarist/singer Shari Kane) for over 16 years...
> >
> > Today as we were rehearsing for our gig tomorrow at the Ark in Ann
> > Arbor, MI  we started talking about harmonica & guitar duos, and we
> > realized that there are really not that many...
> >
> > So we stated making a list of harmonica & guitar duos, past and
> > present:
> >
> > Sonny for Terry & Brownie McGhee  (our original roll models)
> > John Cephus & Phil Wiggins
> > Tom Ball & Kenny Sultan
> > Paul Richell & Annie Raines
> > Roy Rogers & Norton Buffalo
> > Joe Filisko & Eric Noden
> > Harmonica Fats & Bernie Pearl
> > Jim Biersdorf & Jim Kolbe
> > Johnny Rover & Nathan James
> >
> > Who are we missing?
> >
> > I'd like to compile a comprehensive list of harmonica & guitar duos,
> >
> > past and/or present
> >
> > Please add to the list.
> >
> > Peace & Joy,
> >
> >
> > Peter Madcat Ruth
> > madcat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > www.madcatmusic.net
> > Ann Arbor, MI  USA
> >
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