Re: [Harp-L] Jason Ricci Revue from Orlando Blues Society - OBBS

[46long Blake <46long@xxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds just like the five* active members of the Cincinnati Blues Society
contributed to that article.

Nope, it ain't your grandad's Blues......

...and if that's all that the Blues is allowed to be, Next year it will be
four members, then three, then......
...funny, but I bet there was a time when those Blues fans rolled their eyes
at the old folks complaining about their music..."back in my day, even the
white blues guys wore sunglasses and pork pie hats, growlin' 'bout how 'dey
got de blues'...and that's the way it should stay....."

* Snarky hyperbole.........by at least 50%


5....4....3...2...1....cringe....
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 9:11 PM, <IcemanLE@xxxxxxx> wrote:

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> Jason Ricci & New Blood
> Interesting evening,  but this was not a blues  show.
> Jason Ricci’s persona is all Punk and his performance pretty  much was in
> that style. There were lots of young people there to enjoy  it,   more than
> show up at some solid blues shows.
> Jason, as well as he plays and as good as he is (and he is  indeed
> extremely good) isn’t playing the kind of harmonica that I would call
>  blues.  Some
> might like the Punk style, but for me the lack of meaningful  syncopation
> or
> creative interplay can’t be compensated for by simply playing  louder and
> faster.
> His Lee Dorsey cover, “Everything I do Gon’ Be  Funky  (From Now On)” was
> a chance to break into something different,    but  it wasn’t  very funky…
> .maybe screaming the lyrics isn’t the best  approach to Funk.
> On the other hand
> RJ Harmon, who opened the show, is a different story  all together. His
> tuff interplay with his guitar player was really cool on the  opening
> number.
> Almost as gifted a player as Jason, but with a lot more  potential, this
> young man was a sensation at the ’08 Florida Harp Challenge  doing Sonny
> Boy’s
> immortal “Nine Below Zero” note for note.
> RJ has it covered both ways, the standards and an all new  sound, a kind of
> jazz fusion with quick licks hammered out with his guitar  player.  Lot’s
> to like about this
> OK,   so I sound like an old grouch,   but  is there an Orlando Punk Music
> Society?
> Can we promote the Blues and bring the tradition to new  listeners?   Maybe
> that’s  what was happening last night, I don’t  know.
> Think we could get Jason Ricci to listen to some of   James Cotton‘s Band
> doing  “Hold Me Baby”  with Jimmy Vaughn playing  slide?   He certainly
> could play the hell out of that………if he wanted  to.
> Oh well,
> Ford
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