Subject: Re: [Harp-L] fame & Grammys (That Record won a Grammy, man!) :)

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I Loved this...because it's exactly what I was thinking...he won a  GRAMMY!  
wow...and he's so blase about it!   I don't care how  'small' a part he thinks 
he played, this is a GRAMMY-winning record  on which he played HIS 
harmonica...and he's blowing it off as if it  wasn't such a big deal.  Wow!  
 
It's a HUGE deal, at least in MY world. 
 
Add my congrats to the others you've gotten Stephen...
 
Way ...to....go!   :)
 
Elizabeth
 
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Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:37:11 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
From:  Richard Hunter <turtlehill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] fame  & Grammys
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Congratulations  Stephen!

Playing on a Grammy-winning record is a big, big deal.   Don't let anyone 
tell you otherwise, and ESPECIALLY not yourself.  That  record won a Grammy, man!

Why do think you got the call in the first  place?  Because they KNEW you 
could cut it, that's why.  And you  did!  That record won a Grammy, man!  

The producer must've  thought that harp sounded pretty damn good, and the 
academy must've agreed with  him.  Whatever else you can say, whatever you might 
wish you'd played that  day, that was the right harp for that record.  That 
record won a Grammy,  man!

Congratulations again!

Regards, Richard Hunter
latest mp3s  always at _http://broadjam.com/rhunter_ 
(http://broadjam.com/rhunter) "
 
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I have found this whole  discussion?inordinately?amusing because a 
low-profile Harp-L listmember played  harmonica?on a record that was nominated for a 
Grammy this year . . . and  won.

Namely me,?behind Pinetop Perkins on Last of the Great Mississippi  Delta 
Bluesmen: Live in Dallas, which won Best Traditional Blues.

When I  picked up my local newspaper off the porch this morning, I went 
straight to the  Grammy story, which every year talks about the big categories and 
then has a  list of all the zillion other?categories.

Except this year, probably due  to their recent?general newsprint cutbacks, 
they didn't list many  minor?categories . . . and Best Traditional Blues was 
one of the ones they left  out.? You have to go to their online site to see it.

People probably  heard me laughing clear down the block.

I think I have about 14:58 of my  fifteen minutes of fame left to use on 
something else.

It does make one's  mother quite happy, though.? As for me, I don't even know 
if I get a statuette.?  I would like that, preferably a melted Salvador 
Dali-style one that will drip  over the edge of my mantel, because the whole thing 
has been surreal from my  perspective.

The backstory is that some friends I've worked with, Diunna  Greenleaf & Blue 
Mercy,?were backing up Pinetop that night, and Sam Myers  was supposed to 
play harp but had to go in the hospital.? So I got the call.?  Two twelve-bar 
solos (one of which I absolutely can't stand to listen to), a  very few 
miscellaneous fills, some turnarounds (one of which is a bar late) and  a whole lot of 
laying out = a Grammy for playing harmonica.

What the  other posters have said about luck is true.? There is a lot to be 
said for being  in the right place at the right time (and not screwing up too 
badly).? Don't  even bother going to Pinetop's Myspace page to listen to the 
tunes, just go  ahead and say, "Heck, I could do that," because you most 
assuredly could.? I  just happened to.

I even had to ask the producers to correct the spelling  of my last name on 
their website.? They were really nice about that and were  also able to fix it 
on the liner notes because they were redoing the booklet due  to the Grammy 
nomination.??Good guys who deserve kudos for conceiving the  amazing event 
(Pinetop, Robert Lockwood Jr., Honeyboy Edwards, and Henry  Townsend) and record, 
all for their Blue Shoe Project charity that does  blues-in-schools work.? I 
honestly think it's a good record, especially for  artists whose ages averaged 
out to about 92 at that point; how they programmed  it, in particular.? Very 
little harp and that's all me, so ~don't~ buy it for  that.

The one tip I can give harmonica players about winning a blues  Grammy is to 
be sure you get nominated in a year when B. B. King doesn't have a  record 
out--that's the most difficult part?:-).

Ya'll will excuse me now,  I hope--my phone is just going crazy with job 
offers today . . . LOL.? My  apologies to all those listmembers whose musical 
talent annd skill makes them  far more deserving of Grammy recognition than me.? I 
think what happened to me  is a pretty good illustration of how random these 
matters can be.? I hope the  fact that I didn't trumpet the nomination onlist 
indicates that I'm not bragging  as much as I could be.

Hope AOL doesn't mess up the paragraphing,  apologies if it does--Stephen 
Schneider"










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