RE: [Harp-L] Harper Rocks!



I agree, I thoroughly enjoyed his show out this way last year. A really
under-rated harp player and yeah, he's got some great tunes/vocals that
he penned, a lot like Paul DeLay in that sense (but quite a different
style/sound of course). 

Yet another guy out there doggin' it on the road year after year like
Jason Ricci, you just hope they eventually get some reasonable payback
for those efforts.

He's got the best logo for sure also ;^)

Bill Hines

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Subject: [Harp-L] Harper Rocks!
 
 I have to tell you that over the last year I have been blessed to hear
live several of the world's finest living harp players ( including Sugar
Blue, Jason Ricci - several times-, Mark Hummel, Magic Dick, etc) and
Harper, for me, has now been added to the list. 
Seeing him last night at the Outlook Hotel in Boulder, I had to wonder
why the great harmonica community of Colorado was not out there to
support him.  (If you have not heard this cat, you need to take a
deep listen!!).    I was much impressed by his soulful vocals and
prolific, intelligent song wrting, and you have to love diggereedoo with
a Bo Diddly beat, but it was his passionate, gritty harp playing
that  really rocked my world.   Yeah, he can play fast, but what
really made him  one of  my favorite players is the all the cool gut
sounds I kept hearing from his harp that I never have heard from a harp
before!  (He plays with no tricks using a tube preamp into a rebuilt
Fender bassman.  Simple enough -- these sounds were all from him--maybe
from what he has learned from kissing  that diggereedoo. )  This guy is
re-inventing the instrument and is definitely a world class player!  Now
he is living in the U.S.,  I look forward to hearing him again when he
comes back through in the Fall.  BTW, Harper is one nice guy, and he has
put together a fantastic band as well! 

	Mad Dog 






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