[Harp-L] CD Review of Climb Jacobs Ladder

["Paul Messinger" <paul@xxxxxxxx>]

PT/Stevie B/Mojo and other TRENCHANT friends:

 

Thanks for the kind words, have received a few others via e-mail as well
(paul@xxxxxxxx) .

 

As some of you know, the Climb Jacob's Ladder band project started from a
song I'd written (Jacob's Ladder), after the passing of my 21-year old son
Jacob . It's been three years now, and although grief has its own rules and
its own calendar, I can honestly say that music does indeed heal, and
playing music does indeed create joy in one's heart .  

 

The music on the CD (the CD name is actually DooWatchaDoo) is music I've
wanted to make and record for a long time, using harmonica as part of the
fabric of a band-sound . as well as of course step up front when the
occasion requires.  

 

There was a harp-l thread a few years ago where Rob Paparozzi posed the
question:  What do we as a community have to do in order to get producers to
feature more harmonica in modern popular music?

 

My response was that we as a community had to become better songwriters. 

 

In doing so, we would create an extended harmonica musical vocabulary that
the public recognized and embraced and wanted more of.  It would only be
then that harp players would be called in to play parts that the guitar and
keyboard and horns are being called in to play today.

 

Anyway, that's my story and I'm sticking to it . would be glad to discuss of
course .

 

Again, thanks for the kind words and please check the tunes out on our
web-site:  www.climbjacobsladder.net . 

 

Also, we are playing a double-bill with Joe Filisko and Eric Noden on
September 22nd at The ArtsCenter in Carrboro NC
<http://www.artscenterlive.org/event/performance/523>
http://www.artscenterlive.org/event/performance/523 , a 300-seat theatre, to
celebrate the release of the DooWatchaDoo CD . hopefully we'll see some of
you fellow harpers there . 

warmly, 

Paul Messinger/Chapel Hill NC