[Harp-L] Re:Jazz-Blues Fusion/Compilation Album/what would YOU choose...

[EGS1217@xxxxxxx]

Thanks, James...for starting us off...nice list!  That's a great  Stevie 
song...was having a hard time choosing just one of his...
 
I agree with you: whatever I'm listening to for relaxation: at home or in  
the car - it has to be what pleases me or makes me feel good. There is my  
'other' music I listen to that has no bearing at all on my harmonica life as  
well as other harmonica music I listen to so I can hear (and learn) how  
they do what they do, but that's a different thing entirely. I came back to  
harmonica fairly late so am still playing 'catch-up' which is why I now have 
so  many harmonica related CD's. Then again, I am still mostly interested in 
 studying what sounds good to me as well..so it still fits, and is  all 
about pleasing our own ears :).
 
Elizabeth
PS..I only know Bruce Kurnow as 'the Creeper' ....don't know Little  Sonny 
at all - will have to check him out. 
 
 
"Just for me to listen to in the truck driving up and down I-5 to the City  
and  back:

1.  Big Walter Horton / Easy
2.  Rice  "Sonny Boy" Miller / Mighty Long Time
3.  Little Walter / Quarter to  Twelve
4. James Cotton / Don't Start Me Talkin'
5.  Paul Butterfield  / Everything's Going to be Alright
6.  Junior Wells / Early in the  Mornin'
7.  John Lee "Sonny Boy" Williamson / Good Mornin' Little  Schoolgirl
8.  James Harman / Two Sides to Every Story
9.  Carey  Bell / Too Late
10. Charlie Musselwhite / Wild Wild Woman
11. Rick Estrin  / BYE BYE BIRD (or whatever Rick calls it)
12. William Clarke / The  Complainer's Boogiewoogie
13. Rod Piazza / Diamonds at her Feet
14. Gary  Primach / Nervous Fella'
15. Little Sonny / The Creeper Returns
16. George  Smith / Summertime
17. Mark Dufrense / Liquor and Drugs
18. Paul DeLay /  Great Round World
19. Little Stevie Wonder / I Was Made to Love Her
20.  Paul Butterfield / Highway 28

Harmonica isn't at all about technical  mastery to me, it'sonly about how 
it 
fits in the music that I love. Happy  Holidays, James