Re: Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Me - (Rick Dempster's YouTube video)

[Rick Dempster <rickdempster33@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Elizabeth; most kind (especially about the squawking!) Thanks too,
Joe. Hope yous is feeling better lately.
Cheers,
RD


On 23 March 2014 08:10, <EGS1217@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>  Ditto, Smokey.
>
> That was quite a revelation, Rick. Very nice vocals, too. If that's
> 'squawking', many harpists who try to sing should quit now. We also had no
> idea you were Cajun! ;)
>
> Please post more if you find them. I enjoyed it enough to play it through
> 3 times.
>
> Elizabeth
>
> "Message: 10
> Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 10:19:09 -0400
> From: Joseph Leone 3n037@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Me
> To: Rick Dempster <rickdempster33@xxxxxxxxx <rickdempster33@xxxxxxxxx>>
> Cc: Harp L Harp L <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> Beautiful (and DIFFICULT) tune. You're my hero Rick.
> smo-joe
>
> On Mar 22, 2014, at 2:42 AM, Rick Dempster wrote:
>
> > Funny how things turn up on Youtube. This is me in the early or mid
> > nineties with a band I played with until 97
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSEsv5-mZVc
> > I was on steel most of the time, but here's a bowdlerised version of the
> > Cajun tune Allons a Lafayette with me on harp and squawking the vocals.
> > Words, usually in Cajun French, were lifted off an Anglicised Link Davis
> > version, and an extra verse chucked in from a Gene O'Quinn song.
> Sacrilege!
> > Don't know who put this up, but as there's not many recordings of me on
> > harp, and I've been on this list so long I thought I may as well post it.
> > Wonder what else there is? Stand by....
> > RD"
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