[Harp-L] Harp-L Digest, Vol 214, Issue 4

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-------- Original message --------From: harp-l-request at xxxxx Date: 6/14/21  1:51 PM  (GMT-06:00) To: harp-l at xxxxx Subject: Harp-L Digest, Vol 214, Issue 4 Send Harp-L mailing list submissions to	harp-l at xxxxx subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit	https://harp-l.org/mailman/listinfo/harp-lor, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to	harp-l-request at xxxxx can reach the person managing the list at	harp-l-owner at xxxxx replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specificthan "Re: Contents of Harp-L digest..."Today's Topics:   1. Re: Bob Corritore on the Happy Hour Harmonica podcast      (Dennis Michael Montgomery)   2. Re: Bob Corritore on the Happy Hour Harmonica podcast      (Larry Bloomfield)   3. Greetings harp l! (joff watkins)   4. Good morning harp l! (Neil Warren)   5. Chris Jones & Steve Baker - Can't Make You Love Me (randy singer)   6. Tales from Jamlandia (Also, Harp Train amp review, and      whither Steve Grimm?) (meagher at xxxxx)   7. Harmonica UK Virtual Chromatic Weekend this weekend (Neil Warren)----------------------------------------------------------------------Message: 1Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2021 18:09:01 +0000 (UTC)From: Dennis Michael Montgomery <gaulay2 at xxxxx>To: Neil Warren <mrp00bah at xxxxx>, 	Chad Nordstrom	<chad.nordstrom at xxxxx>Cc: "harp-l at xxxxx" <harp-l at xxxxx>Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Bob Corritore on the Happy Hour Harmonica	podcastMessage-ID: <283517457.2053078.1622830141831 at xxxxx>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Thanks. I appreciate it.    On Friday, June 4, 2021, 6:23:35 AM MST, Chad Nordstrom <chad.nordstrom at xxxxx> wrote:    Yeah there is something odd with those links. If you are cutting and pasting into an email client that is probably the issue. For example, your email link worked fine. I actually never thought links were included in the announcements. On Jun 4, 2021, at 07:57, Neil Warren via Harp-L <harp-l at xxxxx> wrote:?Hi Dennis, I included the link but I think it can be removed by formatting to HTML from the harp-l mailing list. Here is the link again:Happy Hour Harmonica Podcast Or search for ?Happy Hour Harmonica? in a web browser or on your smartphones podcast player. Many thanks|? |? |? |? |? ? |? | ||? |? |? Happy Hour Harmonica PodcastThe Happy Hour Harmonica Podcast brings you interviews with some of the top harmonica players today. Contact: happyhourharmonicapodcast at xxxxx thanks to my sponsor, the Lone Wolf Blues Company. Check out some of the great pedals and amps t... |? | | |Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhoneOn Friday, June 4, 2021, 11:49 am, Dennis Michael Montgomery <gaulay2 at xxxxx> wrote:I would like to listen to this podcast, but I see no links.? On Friday, June 4, 2021, 2:37:04 AM MST, Neil Warren via Harp-L <harp-l at xxxxx> wrote:? Hi all, Bob Corritore is next up on the podcast.Bob has a varied catalogue of award winning albums, recorded partly with the many visiting artists to his Rhythm Room Blues Club in Phoenix, Arizona.ThanksBob Corritore interview - Happy Hour Harmonica Podcast| | | |? |? |||| |? | Bob Corritore interview - Happy Hour Harmonica PodcastBob Corritore joins me on episode 40. Bob grew up around Chicago and absorbed the best blues scene in the world,...|||  ------------------------------Message: 2Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2021 22:23:48 -0400From: Larry Bloomfield <bluesbent1 at xxxxx>To: harp-l at xxxxx: Re: [Harp-L] Bob Corritore on the Happy Hour Harmonica	podcastMessage-ID: <94BCA2C4-B1BD-4D13-A631-5552DDF1496C at xxxxx>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-asciiThanks Neil and Bob for another great interview. Larry B. ------------------------------Message: 3Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2021 19:10:13 +0000From: "joff watkins" <joffharp at xxxxx>To: "harp l" <harp-l at xxxxx>Subject: [Harp-L] Greetings harp l!Message-ID: <406363vf1xga$qcha19qg$xdvy113n$@moessingen.de>Content-Type: text/plain;	charset="us-ascii"Harp   https://j.mp/34PjE9F   joff watkinsJoff------------------------------Message: 4Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2021 09:04:54 +0200From: "Neil Warren" <mrp00bah at xxxxx>To: "harp l" <harp-l at xxxxx>Subject: [Harp-L] Good morning harp l!Message-ID:	<3762158tnb4q$3gxk3e13$f2mgd9pk$@hds-sicherheitssysteme.de>Content-Type: text/plain;	charset="us-ascii"Harp https://bitly.com/2S5QVuN   ------------------------------Message: 5Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2021 23:28:43 -0400From: randy singer <randy at xxxxx>To: HarpL* <harp-l at xxxxx>Cc: Rob Paparozzi NYC <Paparozzi1 at xxxxx>,	steve baker harmonica	<steve at xxxxx>Subject: [Harp-L] Chris Jones & Steve Baker - Can't Make You Love MeMessage-ID: <7EDE5C84-C591-4153-AD0D-B0C5CE2C6A11 at xxxxx>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8https://youtu.be/Qme8BvrKAeEI think when it comes to melodic harmonica playing for songwriters I don?t think there?s any better than the great Steve Baker especially when he?s with Chris Jones may he Rest In Peace. Check out their music, it?s few notes one can make to me is the essence without the excessive notes that other players like to use.  Steve is a master of the understatement less is more while still maintaining a massive music impact. And to his incredible credit Steve tries to avoid the typical blues harmonica clich?s that 90% of today?s harmonica players can?t stop playing:). Also special credit goes out to Rob Paparozzi also a master at songwriting harmonica playing. I?m not too bad at it either :-) I spent eight years in Nashville honing that skill. Moving forward. Randy Singer Music www.randysinger.com954-929-7733Talent License TA 1331Licensed, bonded and insured------------------------------Message: 6Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2021 18:38:49 -0600From: <meagher at xxxxx>To: <harp-l at xxxxx>Subject: [Harp-L] Tales from Jamlandia (Also, Harp Train amp review,	and whither Steve Grimm?)Message-ID: <05b701d75f23$4fe43950$efacabf0$@gmail.com>Content-Type: text/plain;	charset="us-ascii"Harp-L'ers,  Sorry for the wall of text! Feel free to disregard. The TLDR version is:  -99% of people at blues jams are great, and every once in a while you get areal jerk; -the Harp Train from Lone Wolf strikes me as a great value, a lot of honkfor not that much money; and -anyone heard from Steve Grimm lately? His Dude Harps are my favorite, but Idon't know if he's stopped making them or if he's just so busy that he's nottaking new customers.  Been a long time since I posted anything substantive, so I'll relate sometales from two recent blues jams. I haven't been to a jam in five or sixyears, mostly because I was singing and playing harp in a band in SF calledthe Western Nephews that sort of got wiped out by COVID. Since then, I movedwith my wife and one-year old baby to Boulder, CO, so a totally new musicscene. In April, I snapped my fibula into about six pieces playing baseball- another vice I indulge into my 40s - and that made it impossible for me totake my kid to school, so fortunately, my mother flew out from Boston tohelp take care of my son (and me while I recovered). Couldn't have made itthrough the six weeks without her, so I asked her how I could thank her, andshe said she just wanted to hear me play harmonica, since the last time shesaw me perform was when I sat in with my old band at my wedding in 2011.  Well, I wasn't just going to serenade her in my living room, so I found ablues jam down in Wheat Ridge at the Long Shots Bar & Grill, and off wewent. Had a blast. Divey bars can be super clique-ish, but I got called upawfully fast (considering I was an unknown harmonica player), played fine,made a couple harmonica player friends (Bob and Leo, I told them to join theHarp-L as we were talking shop after!) and all was well. My mom had SUCH agreat time that she asked that we go back the following Thursday, rightbefore she flew home the following Friday, since I'm finally off crutchesand able to get around on my own, take care of the baby, etc.  The next day, the whole family surprised me when my father came walkingthrough the door as a birthday surprise. So the following Thursday, it's thethree of us, heading back down to Long Shots, and since I'm a bit more of aknown commodity to the jam leader this time, I get called right up as soonas the house band wraps its set. My father is playing roadie and puts my newHarp Train amp onstage; I had just bought the HT from Lone Wolf, and it madeway more sense in a small room like the Long Shots than say my Sonny 4x10,which would be WAY too much. Immediately the guitarist starts barking at meabout where the amp is - 'yeah you should really put that in the back, elseit'll be way too loud.' I mean. the Harp Train is a 10 watt amp with asingle 10" speaker, and besides. I've been playing this thing for 30 years,I like to think I know how to manage my own volume in a jam. 'OK,' I say, 'Ican move it back if you WANT, but if we get loud at all, and I have to turnup, I'll run the risk of more feedback.' And he rolls his eyes and makes akinda snotty comment about how 'I just don't want you to tear their earsoff' as he gestures at what passes for the front row. So I smile and say'Ok, man, if you want me to move it, I'll move it back to the back of thestage, no big deal.'  What was really surprising to me when we started playing was not that theguy kept acting like a jerk, because he had already kinda set those wheelsin motion, but rather, that my parents - who entering last Thursday nighthad gone to one blues jam ever between them - picked up on those dynamics*immediately* despite there being a lot of nuance and subtlety in blues jamsthat probably took me a few years to pick up way back in the day. I guessthis guy was less subtle than usual, because as soon as I came off the stagethey asked 'hey, why was that guy such a jerk??' This was a new one for me -when it was time to get started, he literally turned his back to me so Icouldn't hear what he was calling. Maybe that sounds paranoid, but I'mtelling you; you had to be there, it was transparently obvious, and myspeculation is that he called all non-12-bar-blues progressions in an effortto throw me off/show me up.  Well, look. I'm probably in the bottom quartile of harmonica players on thislist. I'm not the best harmonica player in the world, I'm probably not eventhe best harmonica player in a five-mile radius of my house. BUT. I've beenplaying this damn thing for 30 years, I'm not gonna get shook when you calla non-blues progression, and once upon a time, I could let 'er rip a little.so for example, this guy after the first song calls [inaudible song] in[inaudible key] with his back turned to me, doesn't turn around to tell mewhat it is, and launches into. Low Rider, with him playing the hook onguitar. Like, come on man. I've been playing a long time. So it takes threeseconds to figure out what key it's in, I come in, and he gives me this hardside eye when I start playing the hook. To Low Rider. You know. the songwhere the hook is played by a harmonica. (I actually played LR in a band adecade or so ago, so I threw in the Miller sax line as well, mishmashed witha little stolen Sugar Blue/Adam Gussow stuff into it, and then got the rarechance to pull out my Steve Baker Special and play the hook an octave down,which is always fun.)  He calls After Midnight - well, I figured out it wasAfter Midnight after the song started, because again, he called it with hisback to me and his voice low - and calls all the other musicians for a solo,ends the song without calling me. No big deal; when I was 25, that kindastuff would get my Irish up, but I'm 42 years old, and over the years Ilearned that getting into some ego battle onstage a) doesn't mean anyone inthe audience enjoys themselves more, b) doesn't make you look any better orcooler or earn other musicians' respect, c) doesn't put any more money inthe bartenders' tip jars, etc. It's just not worth it. So the third songends and I start packing up my gear and frankly I'm pretty happy - hey, Igot to play in front of my folks, that's all that matters -  and the jamleader says 'oh, Evan, we're not done with you yet, you stay up there.'Pulls the jerkface guitarist off the stage, sends up a completely new band,and the new band and I proceed to have an absolute blast, we play about fivesongs, female vocalist with great stage presence and the rhythm section ofthe band she fronts. it was great. Right before my last song, I got to grabthe vocal mic - I had cleared it with the vocalist - and say 'hey, I don'tknow what this next song is, but it goes out to my dear mom, who bought memy first harmonica when I was 12 years old, and my dad, who surprised me byflying out from Boston for my birthday, so this one's for you, mom & dad.'Got a huge applause, because the vibe was right: the band was cooking andeveryone was having fun.  Along the way, the Harp Train was great. Perfect size for the venue,compresses nicely. I lent it to the next two harmonica players, since theweek prior, one of them had let me play through his amp - and it got alittle feedbacky (imagine that!) when the last set of the night got a littleout of control volume wise, but that wasn't the Harp Train's fault, it wasthe fault of the knucklehead who put it behind the harmonica player. Theyhave a discount (or did recently anyway) on the amp because they had gottena shipment with minor stains - that stuff never bothers me - so I recommendit as a great value buy.  Lastly, anyone heard from Steve Grimm? If I had my druthers, I'd only playDude Harps - best value for the money, IMHO, especially if you overblow atall - and if I'm gonna get back to playing regularly, I'd love to stock up,but the last time I reached out I think I never got a response. Hope he'sdoing well and just busy, because that guy makes a MEAN harmonica.  Cheers,  Evan Meagher   ------------------------------Message: 7Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2021 18:51:32 +0000 (UTC)From: Neil Warren <mrp00bah at xxxxx>To: "harp-l at xxxxx" <harp-l at xxxxx>Subject: [Harp-L] Harmonica UK Virtual Chromatic Weekend this weekendMessage-ID: <953148671.10263653.1623696692535 at xxxxx>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8Hi all, the Harmonica UK Chromatic Weekend is THIS weekend. 12 of the finest chromatic players on the planet will be giving workshops, as well as a raffle with great prizes, presentations from harmonica manufacturers, and a jam on two evenings.Not to be missed!https://fb.me/e/1nAzkk0VPOr see:?Virtual Chromatic Weekend ? Harmonica UK| | | |  |  | | || |  | Virtual Chromatic Weekend ? 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