Re: [Harp-L] Keith Dunn was:Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee concert vid

[Tom Martin <tomdmartin@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey,
I'm always searching for new musicians that I'm not familiar with and most
especially the ones that play the harp. I checked out music.com and they
have an album of his:

http://www.emusic.com/listen/#/album/keith-dunn/alone-with-the-blues/11587441/
:

Enjoy,

Tom

On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Michael Rubin <
michaelrubinharmonica@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Perhpas we can form  a Dunn timeline.  In 1987 to 1991 I went to college in
> Sonoma.  Keith lived near there at least as he repeatedly showed up at good
> harp shows.  He was at least in his 30s and was kind enough to stand with
> me and talk about what was happening onstage.  I remember Jimmy Rogers
> singing Walking By Myself and thinking it a Butterfield tune and Dunn
> explained I was watching the guy who wrote it.  (Years later Kenny Holiday
> would explain to me Rogers stole the melody from TBone Walker's Why not) .
>
> I also remember Dunn being too shy to introduce himself to Musselwhite who
> was in the audience one night.  Although I had met Musselwhite before, we
> were lesss than acquaintances at that point, but I figured if he needed
> someone to introduce him, I would.
>
> I never heard Dunn play until much later when he sat in on one song at a
> Slim's show in San Francisco.  Dunn apparently fronted a blues band The
> Blowtops or The Blowpops, which I never saw.  Anyone have a CD of Dunn with
> a band?
> Michael Rubin
> Michaelrubinharmonica.com
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Richard Hunter <turtlehill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >wrote:
>
> > I first saw Keith Dunn in Harvard Square around 1970.  He just hung out
> > all day playing the harp, in my opinion badly.  I was distressed to hear
> > another yet harp player on the street just wailing away with no regard
> for
> > the instrument and its reputation.
> >
> > I heard Keith in the same place about a year later.  He was sounding
> > better. A year of blowing harp all day long had apparently taught him
> > something.
> >
> > I heard him again a year after that, and by now he was sounding like a
> > musician, not to mention an  accomplished harp player.  At that point, I
> > decided that I was going to carry a harp with me everywhere I went and
> play
> > it whenever I had the chance.  Which I still do.  And which I advise my
> > students to do, one and all.
> >
> > After all, it worked for Keith.
> >
> > Regards, Richard Hunter
> >
> >
> >
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