Re: [Harp-L] Re: summertime...a version (Joe and Cass Leone)

Joe and Cass Leone <leone@xxxxxxxx> · Wed, 1 Oct 2008 16:25:30 -0400

On Oct 1, 2008, at 3:30 PM, Robin Willis wrote:
I always agree with Smokey... except today. Summertime sounds so  
soulful on

a diatonic and it's easy enough for even me to play.

Don't fret Robin. You are STILL agreeing with me, or, to be more  
succint, 'I' am agreeing with YOU. Summertime DOES sound awfully good  
on a diatonic. In fact, at Buckeye 2007 (or maybe 2006), I used BOTH  
on that tune. I have always felt that one should use the proper tools  
for the job. A chisel works for some things, a riffler for others.
Please note that I am primarily a chromo player and use diatonics  
only for country, western, pop, swing, boogie woogie, jazz, rock. Im  
not that advanced on diatonic.
I am probably not telling anybody anything here but Porgie and Bess  
was Gershwin's paean to

the blues and to "black" music soooo... a diatonic sounds pretty  
darn good

IMHO.

Personally, I feel a diatonic sounds best, but then there are some  
occasions where a diatonic is too difficult ....for me.
But then anything Smokey plays sounds great.

Whoaaaaaa, here's a shocker. I wasn't aware that you had ever heard  
me. So few have.
smo-joe

Robin
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