Subject: [Harp-L] jason and terra and online friends

[EGS1217@xxxxxxx]

Nice comments, Garry.  It was a wonderful night.  In such a  dark club as 
Terra Blues, I usually center myself by first looking for  the mic setup, then 
the "guy in the baseball cap".  I was surprised  not to see your 
brother...assumed he was just away for a moment, but Warren was  in his place by the time we 
said hello.  It is very nice to feel  comfortable and surrounded by friends, I 
quite agree.  I made a  new friend in Mark from Connecticut last night..a 
long time harp-l'er,  harmonica player/performer, someone who just doesn't have 
the time to post  (but who assiduously reads the list).  
 
I hope he lists his gig information one of these days, since it'd  be fun at 
some point to go to hear him.  
 
The place was packed...proving good "word of mouth" always helps, though my  
posting made it onto the list far too late to do any good, so I'm glad you and 
 Warren both got yours in early enough.  
 
Jason and Shawn've never played "Sonja" more beautifully.  I can't  wait to 
hear it on "The" CD (the first time it'll be officially recorded, though  it's 
been heard on your downloads).  That instrumental and the new song  "The One 
Least in Love", aside from all of the great Blues-oriented,  Rocker-oriented 
and combination Blues/Rocker-oriented songs and  instrumentals New Blood does, 
seem to me to be the two pieces to  have definite "hit song" possibilities. 
Sonja is the one I feel  drawn to attempt playing on my chromatic, and the other 
is beautifully  sung by Jason. 
 
Jason never shortchanges his audiences...who always remain beyond the time,  
hoping for more.  So Warren came back to the Island in the car  with us due to 
the lateness of the hour, and we got to talk more  "shop" all the way home.
 
All in all, an absolutely terrific evening. 
 
Elizabeth
 
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Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 22:37:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: Garry  Hodgson <garry@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Harp-L] jason and terra and  online friends
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went to see jason ricci and new blood at terra blues  in nyc last night.  
they were awesome, as usual.  but that's not  what i want to talk about.

it felt a little odd when i went there.   my brother usually goes with me, but
he was out of town.  a colleague  was going to try to come, but it didn't seem
likely.  another friend had  been unable to get off work.  nobody else could 
make
it (admittedly, a  thursday night show from 10 - 3 is hard to fit into most  
peoples'
schedules).  so i went on my own, even though it felt kinda  weird.

but then a cool thing happened.  no sooner had i walked in  the door when i 
ran
into warren b, who was chatting with buckweed.  when  he came to sit at the 
table next to mine, he had another list member, mark  (?) from connecticut,
along with another friend of his.  we had a nice  time talking shop 'til the 
show
began.  at some point the manager came  over to say hello.  then, after the
show started, someone came up behind  me and gave me a hug.  it was mary,
another JRNB fan and friend from  philadelphia.  shortly after that, elizabeth
(also from this list)  showed up.

all of the sudden i wasn't there alone, but surrounded by  friends, most of 
them
from this list.  we came from new jersey, new  york, connecticut, 
philadelphia, 
some by train, some by car.  it was  the band that brought us there.  but it 
was
this list that brought us  together.  and that's pretty cool.

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

nobody can do everything, but everybody can  do something.
do something."






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