Boy, reading the posts answering Joe's question, I feel like a real old fogey. Solo harp? I immediately think:
De Ford Bailey, Palmer McAbee, Gwen Foster, Kyle Wooten, Blues Birdhead, Rhythm Willie; here's a good source for at least some of this stuff:
http://www.amazon.com/Harmonica-Blues-Various-Artists/dp/B000000G7S
Also, for the brilliant Rhythm Willies tracks (four trax only - but worth it!)
http://www.amazon.com/Harps-Jugs-Washboards-Kazoos-1926-1940/dp/B00005M0DW
Also:http://www.amazon.com/Harmonica-Masters-Various-Artists/dp/B000000G8V/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1219980804&sr=1-1
I suppose I'm assuming Joe Glover is a young bloke on the early learning curve, so I'm recommending 'old masters' here. Not only are these great players, but they are part of a vanished world, where music was deeply embedded in and emanated from the culture of time and place, and had a poetry to it that is usually absent in modern recordings. Of course...I may just be a sentimental fool.... intoxicated by the mysteries of time....
Then again, is it just the blues you're after Joe? Let's not forget our own home-grown masters, particularly P.C.Spouse; not a bent note in sight, but a hell of a player of jigs 'n' reels etc.:
http://www.undercovermusic.com.au/band_in_a_waistcoat_pocket.htm
Cheers, Rick Dempster 55 years old, Melboune, Australia
joe glover <megashifty@xxxxxxxxxxx> 29/08/2008 0:09 >>>
hey does anyone know any good solo harp pieces that are good?
Joe Glover. 16 yrs old. sydney, australia
www.myspace.com/joegloverharp
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