RE: [Harp-L] Cotton

["Bill Hines" <billhines4@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'll be checking him out at the Pocono Blues fest in July, come on out
folks. Last time I saw him there it was an unforgettable performance
because some unexpected "friends" stopped by to help him out - Mojo
Buford on fantastic vocals and good old Hubert Sumlin playing guitar
behind him in a Grateful Dead ball cap. Priceless. And the music?
Fughettaboutit.

Bill Hines

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From: harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
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Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 9:06 AM
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Subject: [Harp-L] Cotton


For all those that believe trying to play 100 notes, THIS is how it's
done.  
The video stopped after a short time, but I know pretty must everything
Cotton 
 will do. He is on the A list of players who can hit one note and you
know 
who it  is. I have known James for 30 years now and before that watched
him with 
his  ridiculous band with the great Charles Calamese on bass, who met an

untimely  death in a car crash. THAT was one smoking band. This is
before all the 
videos  of how to exactly play the harp, you tried to watch Jimmy's face
the 
pick up  what he was doing. Yeah, right. His tone is soooo  deep and
full there 
will  never be another Cotton. He can play the same riffs with some off 
shoots all day  and you never get tired of that tone. Looks like he is
using a ball 
mic, perhaps  the 533 spere o dyne he used in the 70's and later. I
think 
hundreds of harp  players bought Super Reverb amps just because of
Cotton, and 
could not  understand why it didn't sound like that. If everyone can
have that 
clip play  all the way through, please let me know so I know it is my
computer 
and not the  clip. Thanks for that. We must All go to see and support
Cotton, 
as he is  getting up there was very large last time I saw him. He looked
great 
in  this clip, was it recent?  If you want to see just how to work an  
audience and play from your diaphram, get to see him while we can.  SJ
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