[Harp-L] Re: Add to list

[SONNYTONE@xxxxxxx]

Sonny Terry and Blind Boy Fuller. In my seminars I will show the  progression 
of Sonny's playing as it went from very very shrill with BBF,  growing with 
Woody Guthrie, then with Brownie McGhee. One of the most clearly  recorded and 
best of Sonny's amazing, at some points just ridiculous playing,  called Sonny 
Terry and His Mouth Harp, with Alex Seward on guitar, recorded in  NYC in 
1953, when Sonny was truly at his prime. Looks to be on the Riverside  label. His 
Fox Chase is one song I still work on, and won't perform until fully  
perfected. I have the rhythm down and take it to my own level with whoops and  
hollers, it is the falsetto hound voices he makes you better make sure you are  in 
key with. I know Joe Filisko does a nice interpretation of it, the bottom  
basis of it is something people from my seminar will leave with being able to  do, 
allowing them to play continuously and breathe correctly, big key in his  
playing. When I practice I generally play non stop off rhythms for 1 - 2 hours,  
no break, no catching your breath. Hate to sound Zen like, but after the first 
 hour or more you become one with the instrument, there is no thinking, as 
long  as you have control of the harp itself, all its bends and intricacies, you 
can  go off on a line then back to the rhythm, making is sound as if the 
rhythm was  there the whole time. We're gonna have some fun.