Re: [Harp-L] Whammer Jammer -- add 1

[BiscuitBoy714@xxxxxxx]

 This is cool to read. Ya know the truth is, ebbry dobby has to get their 
licks  somewhere. I got some of my licks from him, who in turn got some of his  
licks from.............................and so it goes.
 
          Where did it all  start???
 
        O yea, by the way. What happened  to learning your instrument so well 
that you can just put on the song and learn  it by ear???
 
               Randy
           BiscuitBoy  Blues
 
In a message dated 7/31/2008 9:03:23 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
Philharpn@xxxxxxx writes:

"When I  interviewed Magic Dick, he was quite open about where he got various 
parts  of "Whammer Jammer." I didn't realize, though, that he got the final  
12-bars of the song from the end of James Cotton's original recording of  
"Rocket 
88." It's on BLUES MASTERS: HARMONICA CLASSICS. Dick literally  takes that 
chorus note for note from Cotton. Amazing! I knew the opening  was from Sonny 
Boy's "Bye Bye Birdie," and later parts --warbles--are from  Little Walter's 
"Back 
Track," more or less. But "Rocket 88"? Check it  out."


 



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