[Harp-L] Player of the Month

[Michael Easton <diachrome@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This month I'm featuring a track on my website that I recently  
recorded.  The cd came out today.
From there you can link to the artist website to hear all the tracks.  
Most of the cd is old school R&B and blues with a latin feel.

Adding harp to the cd was an afterthought for the artist.  I was  
recommended to fill the harp chair on one cut, The Cause of it All.
When I arrived at the studio it was only myself and the engineer.    
All the songs were recorded and the harp track was the last track to  
be laid. Neither the artist nor producer were present so I was left to  
fill the harp parts as I wished and they would edit it later.  I met  
the producer a few days after the recording but haven't met the  
artist, Johnny Bravo, yet.

Since I was an afterthought only 12 bars were available to solo over.   
The rest of the players got 24.  I will be the first to admit my parts  
were played basic
2nd position minor since no direction was given or enough room to open  
up on the solo.  They could either bury me in the mix, delete my fills  
or do whatever.  I left enough harp parts in the song for them to do  
as they liked in the final mix. I laid the solo first then went back  
and did the fills.  On the original recording Howlin' Wolf played harp  
on the intro. I found out the cellist played my parts so I played  
counter to her. In the final mix she was buried and the guitar is now  
playing counter to me.

After the producer heard my tracks he borrowed a vintage 1940's vocal  
mic from me and rerecorded the vocal track to dirty it up.
I heard the artist is going back into the studio in January and wants  
to use me on 3 or 4 more tracks.  He told the engineer he didn't know  
I was going to be so good.:-)

Gearhead info:  Blonde 1963 Gibson Skylark amp, Shure 545 mic, stock C  
Marine Band.  Reverb ala studio.

You can check it out at my website below.  If Rob Paparozzi's cut  
still shows just refresh the browser.

Thanks for listening.

January's featured artist- Enrico Granafei

Michael Easton
www.harmonicarepair.com