Re: [Harp-L] "Pre-War" Harmonica

[Bradford Trainham <btrainham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

	Wow!!
Jack Pot!!!
Thank you!!
And...
I'm realizing that I'm apparently unaware of Sonny Terry's
recording/playing/performing/existential chronology. 
Having had only a tangential exposure to him and that exposure
centering mainly around the Blues revivals of the early/mid 60's, does
anyone care to spin us a brief bio with emphasis on from when to when
he recorded? 
Did I mention I !!love!! this list?
Brad Trainham
On Tue, 08 May 2007 12:51:38 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:

>The first four cuts appear to be pre-war rural blues. The rest of the
>collection is definitely urban and appears to be mostly post-war.
>
>My previous post about the Harmonica Masterclass concert mentioned
>several prewar rural players.
>
>While the pre-war / post-war divide is not necessarily also a rural /
>urban divide (especially since pretty much all the recording was done
>in cities by commercial companies looking for something to sell to
>known population segments), it does largely fall that way.
>
>Prewar rural styles tend to differ from postwar urban styles. The
>earlier players used a host of techniques that either were not used by
>such seminal urban players as John Lee Willimson, or had no application
>in the context of a large, electrified band, or both.
>
>Some prewar players (both blues and non-blues) might include, in no
>particular order:
>
>Blues Birdhead
>Jazz Gillum
>Noah Lewis
>Will Shade
>De Ford Bailey
>Sonny Terry
>Willim McCoy
>Daddy Stovepipe
>George Bullet Williams
>Hammie Nixon
>Gwen Foster
>Garley Foster
>Lonnie Glosson
>Humphrey Bate
>Kyle Wooten
>Henry Whitter
>Palmer McAbee
>Jed Davenport
>Alfred Lewis
>Freeman Stowers
>Chuck Darling
>Arteleus Mistric
>Herman Crook
>Joe Werner
>Ernest Stoneman
>Jaybird Coleman
>
>A couple of decent harmonica-centered anthologies (I know there are
>more out there):
>
>http://www.yazoorecords.com/2019.htm
>
>http://www.yazoorecords.com/1053.htm
>
>Winslow
>
>--- John Kerkhoven <solo_danswer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Here's another good collection from Saga Blues:
>> 
>> they're all good tracks. #14 sloppy drunk blues is a nice piano, bass
>> and
>> harp number.
>> 
>> cheers,
>> 
>> john
>> 
>> 
>> Harmonica Blues - Blowing from Memphis to Chicago
>> 
>> 01 - Will Shade - Sun Brimmers Blues
>> 02 - Noah Lewis - Bad Lucky's My Buddy
>> 03 - Noah Lewis - Chickasaw Special
>> 04 - Hammie Nixon - Down South Blues
>> 05 - Sonny Boy Williamson no 1 - Good Morning, School Girl
>> 06 - Joe Hill Louis - I Feel Like a Million
>> 07 - Howlin' Wolf - Riding in the Moonlight
>> 08 - Big Walter Horton - Easy
>> 09 - Sonny Boy Williamson no 2 - Nine Below Zero
>> 10 - Sonny Boy Williamson no 2 - Mighty Long Time
>> 11 - Doctor Ross - Chicago Breakdown
>> 12 - James Cotton - Baker Shop Boogie
>> 13 - Jazz Gillum - I Want You by My Side
>> 14 - Sonny Boy Williamson no 1 - Sloppy Drunk Blues
>> 15 - Sonny Boy Williamson no 1 - Sonny Boy's Jump
>> 16 - Forest City Joe - Lonesome Day Blues
>> 17 - Snooky Pryor - I'm Getting Tired
>> 18 - Big Walter Horton - Evening Sun
>> 19 - Little Willie Foster - Falling Rain Blues
>> 20 - Little Walter - Off the Wall
>> 21 - Little Walter - Quarter to Twelve
>> 22 - Little Walter - Blues with a Feeling
>> 23 - Junior Wells - Junior's Wail
>> 24 - Jimmy Reed - I Found My Baby
>> 
>> 
>> 
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