[Harp-L] Re: Best thing ever said

[Jim Crutchfield <jdcrutch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In my introductory message I mentioned the biker who told me, "It's good 
to hear a *real* harmonica player!" which is the best compliment I've 
ever gotten, whatever he meant; but I'll add this one, which may have 
referred to my singing or my harp playing or both:  a few months ago I 
went to the jazz singers' open mike at Cleopatra's Needle in Manhattan, 
and one of my allotted two songs was Big Joe Turner's "Roll 'Em Pete", 
on which I played a harmonica break.  Afterwards, a nice black lady in 
the audience (the friend of another singer) told me, "You were good.  I 
was surprised."  That /was/ a compliment, right?

Jim Crutchfield