Re: [Harp-L] Re: Butter...tone....

["steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <swebb@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Ken
  My favorite song, hands down.  But it's not Butterfield singing, I think it's Geoff Muldaur. His singing, the guitar work by Amos Garrett, and Butterfield's fantastic harp, that's what makes this song so great.  I strive to play simple, meaningful licks and I seldom succeed. I just think that he played just the right amount of harp and his technique is amazing. I have the teaching tapes he did with Happy Traum and his acoustic vibrato just kills me.  
Butterfield and Charlie McCoy are my two greatest influences and they are very divergent in style. If I could just find a way to fit in there somewhere between the two.
Steve Webb in stormy Minnesota.

---- Mojo Red <harplicks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> Glad you mentioned "Someone To Love," Steve. 
> 
> That's my absolute favorite song on the "Better Days" album. I it clearly demonstrates Butter's delicious blending with the horn section and tasteful yet emotional soloing. Truly exceptional stuff. Add to that his terrific vocals. Wish I could sing half that good.
> 
> Harpin' in Colorado,
> --Ken M.
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: "steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <swebb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Tue, December 22, 2009 9:58:49 PM
> Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Re: Butter...tone....
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> 
> For me, it would be the lick in "Done a Lot of Wrong Things" on the Better Days album. That and his masterful playing on "Please Send Me Someone to Love." the Percy Mayfield song.
> Steve Webb in Minn.
> 
> ---- Ev630 <eviltweed@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> > Hi Tom - many thanks for that. So what I get from your earlier post and the
> > clarification is that no one has played with that emotion before or since?
> > 
> > Is it at all possible for you (or anyone else in the discussion) to identify
> > one, two or at most three tunes that embody the level of emotion your are
> > indicating distinguishes Butterfield from other harp players? I'd prefer
> > agreement/consensus on one or two, so I can limit my own responses.
> > 
> > It's nearly Xmas and my wife will kill me if I pore over harp-l too much
> > longer! ;)
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Drew
> > 
> > 
> > From: "tomsmics" <tomsmics@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Subject: [Harp-L] Butter...tone....
> > > To: <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Clarification for Drew:  I did mean what I said about Butter's strongly
> > > emotional playing.  To my ears he put much more emotion directly into his
> > > solos that what I had heard before, and, to paraphrase another astute
> > > comment here, he really did seem to go for the heart (or throat) everytime
> > > he stepped out front to blow.
> > >
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