[Harp-L] RE: Tony Glover

[John Kally <jkally3@xxxxxxx>]

Yes, I'm one of the thousands that had a copy of an early edition (the  
purple cover) of Tony's book and I got mine around 1970.   It got me  
started, and interested enough to search out a teacher (sheer luck, it  
turned out to be Rick Epping, who was giving basic classes at McCabe's  
in Santa Monica). There was also an LP recording with the same cover  
on Folkways that I remember finding at the library years later (and  
long after it would have done me much good)  with some of the  
exercises covered.   Probably not worth the trouble to track down the  
book or LP  at this point since so much more information is available  
elsewhere.    Pat Missin does a very good job of talking about this  
book at his website and corrects some of the published  information  
also, which is nice since no  "revised" editions of  have ever done  
anything about that ( I think the only notable change  in editions was  
going from a photograph on the cover to a drawing).  It certainly  
deserves a place in "harp history"  for being the first of it's kind.   
First time I heard of Little Walter, Sonny Boy 2,  Jimmy Reed etc. was  
in this book.