Re: [Harp-L] Blues Birdhead

["michael rubin" <michaelrubinharmonica@xxxxxxxxx>]

Okay, this song Mean Low Blues is credited as being recorded in 1929, I
thought the Birdhead recording with an overblow was in 1931.  I listened to
the tune and was not able to distinguish the overblow.    Since the link
provides the time, what minute and second does the overblow occur?  I heard
growl sounds, but it did not seem like overblowing to me.  Ron says the
overblow is on the 4 hole during the growl section.  Having never heard the
tune, I was under the impression the overblow was on 6 blow.
Help anybody?  Winslow?
Thanks,
Michael Rubin
Michaelrubinharmonica.com


On 6/24/08, captron100@xxxxxxx <captron100@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> I had a lot of trouble trying to listen to Mean Low Blues from the
> Amazon.com link that Rick sent.
> Finally i discovered that if I scrolled down to the song list, i could
> click the arrow to the left
> of the song title, to enable me to hear it.  It sounds to me like this
> version is in first position
> using an F harp, but it is slow and therefore flat.
> Then harmoniman@comcast sent this link:
> http://www.authentichistory.com/1930s/music/1929-Mean_Low_Blues.html ,
> which is the full song. This
> seems to be in F# in first position, except that there is a low note that
> isn't on my F# harp (about
> 9/10th of the way thru the song).
> Whatever, this song is a workout in both first or second position,
> entailing lots of
> opportunities to use OB's.  Fun stuff that could keep you occupied for
> days, if not years!  It also
> has a couple of examples of that growl which we've talked about before on
> harp-L (about 6/10th of
> the way thru) but at that time I didn't have the song to listen to, so i
> had little idea of what
> the posters were talking about. But that growl appears to be on a the OB'd
> 4 blow. I'm gonna save
> this link.  If anyone can shed light on what's going on in this song, i
> would be very interested.
> This was great.  Thanks for sending that link.
> ron
>
>
>
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