Re: [Harp-L] Charlie Musselwhite at the Greeley Blues Jam

[Rick Davis <bluesharpamps@xxxxxxxxx>]

Charlie's tone with that Fender Red Knob Twin was amazing.  You can pick up
good examples of that amp on eBay for around $500.  I might try one out for
the Blues Harp Amps Blog.

The crowd at Greeley was lovin' every second of Charlie's set. Walter Trout
was the next act but lots of people were leaving the arena when Musselwhite
finished.  He should have been the headliner.

Best songs were River Hip Mama, The Blues Overtook Me, and Bad Boy.  But
everything he played was great.  Matt Stubbs on the Gibson SG was
excellent.  It was a great blues show.

-Rick Davis
The Blues Harp Amps Blog
http://www.bluesharpamps.blogspot.com/

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Tom Albanese <reedwrecker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> He had the same setup and closed with the same tune at the Chicago Blues
> Festival on Friday evening. Charlie and his tough, tight four piece band put
> on a smokin' 90 minute set and he sounded as good as I've ever heard him,
> and that's going back more than 30 years. Charlie is still an
> ageless monster and very much an original voice in blues harmonica. The
> crowd loved every minute of it and let him know it with raucous applause
> after every solo. It was a great scene on a beautiful day in downtown
> Chicago.
>
> tom albanese
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> www.myspace.bigrealdeal.com
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>   On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Rick Davis <bluesharpamps@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>>  I headed up North this afternoon to catch Charlie Musselwhite's set at
>> the
>> Blues Jam, Greeley's summer blues festival. Charlie's tone was superb;
>> huge
>> and rich.
>>
>> He was playing through an unmodified Fender Red Knob Twin amp, known as
>> the
>> Evil Twin. Musselwhite used the same model amp to record his recent album
>> "Delta Hardware." The amp is a high gain beast; a super loud guitar amp
>> that
>> just does not seem like a good choice for harp. But Charlie is, well...
>> Charlie. He gets good tone with anything.
>>
>> He opened his set with the song River Hip Mama, which happens to be the
>> same
>> song my band Roadhouse Joe opens every show with. Standing 20 feet in
>> front
>> of Charlie Musselwhite and listening to him play that song was thrilling
>> and
>> inspiring. His encore was Christo Redentor. Everything in between was a
>> clinic in third and fourth position mastery.
>> There is a picture of Charlie playing the Fender Evil Twin amp at the
>> Blues
>> Harp Amps Blog.
>>  -Rick Davis
>> The Blues Harp Amps Blog
>> http://www.bluesharpamps.blogspot.com/
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