RE: [Harp-L] James Montgomery

["Bernie Clarke" <bclarke1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I met him at the NYS Blues Festival five years ago.  He was fronting Johnny
Winter's band. He's great to talk to - very approachable.  He told the
funniest joke I ever heard!  Make sure you get him to tell his "Giuseppe the
Tailor' joke.'

Bernie Clarke

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From: harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Rob Paparozzi
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 3:04 PM
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Subject: Re: [Harp-L] James Montgomery

"Son of Jump", what a great song and I covered it too with my early bands in

the late 70's....a nice solo that starts on the IV chord and a tasty intro 
riff....very cool stuff!

James is a great Player does need more attention here I agree!

I met him when he sat in with Me & Jimmy Vivino at MANNY'S Car Wash club 
(NYC) in the 90's...really nice guy too...
Best,
Rob P

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Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 2:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] James Montgomery


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> James was one of my first influences - an early recording called "First 
> Time Out" - cover had a picture of someone getting shot out of a cannon. I

> used to cover a tune from this album - called "Son of Jump", that started 
> out "Got home late last night, tried to wake my baby in bed." Great 
> arrangement - not typical blues changes - and a great harmonica solo. His 
> brother used to bartend at Tom's Oyster Bar in E. Detroit, another great 
> hang out, so I got to meet James through him when James came to Detroit. 
> What I remember is that James live was the master of the endless song 
> endings and segues.
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> James, Corky Siegel (live version of Hush Hush) and Lee Oskar (live War 
> recordings) were who caught my imagination as I came out of the chute and 
> headed in the diatonic direction.
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> Subject: [Harp-L] James Montgomery
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> Hi List,
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> Got to see a terrific New Years Eve show in the Greater Boston area 
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> James Montgomery with the "Uptown Horns."  James is quite the consummate
> performer and a very nice gentlemen who spent a considerable amount of 
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> chatting with me about 'everything blues' backstage before the show about 
> (we
> even had a friendly debate about the best version of Caldonia ever 
> recorded; I
> said Muddy with Portnoy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zd0tUHHjCMU  he 
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> Muddy & Cotton!).
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> James is a 'blues-god' around these parts and has been for decades. 
> Doesn't seem
> to get much (any?) talk on Harp-L and I was wondering how familiar the 
> rest of
> the country is with him, and what folks thought of his harp playing??  He 
> has
> studied with James Cotton and Junior Wells to name two, but really has a
> distinctive style all his own (plays clean thru an sm57 into the PA).
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> Barry
> http://www.myspace.com/gracieblues
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