Re: [Harp-L] BLUEgrass

[davidnaiditch@xxxxxxxxxxx]

The "Biggies" that Mike Stevens toured with were the bluegrass legends 
Jim & Jessie McReynolds.

Here are some YouTube videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YIpFQccOUo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x_T-LLo1ww

And here is what these bluegrassers sound like playing the blues:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex6jlUaaHPg

--David Naiditch
www.davidnaiditch.com

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Michelle LeFree wrote:

> David Naiditch writes:
> > And there's the rub.  The fact we have drudge up examples going back 
> > many
> > decades illustrate how the harmonica has failed to make any 
> > significant
> > inroads into bluegrass.  I remember buying the Flat&  Scruggs/Doc
> > Watson/Charlie McCoy album and hoping the harmonica would finally be 
> > more
> > accepted by bluegrass musicians.  No such luck.  After decades of 
> > trying to
> > introduce blues into bluegrass, we need to consider adding more grass 
> > to our
> > harmonica playingâenjoy inhaling;-)
>
> I wouldn't go so far to say that his inroads have been real 
> significant but Mike Stevens at least deserves mention in this 
> context. He's played with the biggies, has appeared on the Grand Ole 
> Opry on many occasions and he blows lightning fast runs true to the 
> genre. He even has a Bluegrass Harmonica how-to book/CD set, though it 
> is highly self aggrandizing and of limited instructional value (IMO).
>
> For some reason he's rarely if ever mentioned on Harp-L. So I'm 
> mentioning him. ;-)
>
> Michelle