[Harp-L] Will Scarlett's place in the history of overblows

[Arthur Jennings]

Dylan was a fairly-good finger-picker 60 years ago, long before he'd ever met Bloomfield, Bromberg, Robertson or Knopfler. Listen to his first album.

> On Feb 12, 2022, at 3:55 AM, Ronnie Schreiber <autothreads at xxxxx> wrote:
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> On 2/12/2022 3:13 AM, Jim Stoye wrote:
>> Rick, everyone is entitled to his opinions, but you lost my serious consideration of yours when you included Charlie McCoy and Bob Dylan in the same sentence.
>> JS
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> Considering that Charlie McCoy backed up Bob Dylan on a number of classic recordings it's perfectly appropriate to mention them in the same sentence. If Charlie respects Bob as a musician, who am I to argue? More to your supposed point, if you don't think Bob Dylan can play harmonica after working with the instrument for sixty years you're fooling yourself. I've heard him play perfectly competent 2nd position blues harp. He's also a fairly good fingerpicking guitar player, I suppose he must have learned a thing or two from Michael Bloomfield, David Bromberg, Robbie Robertson, and Mark Knopfler.
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> It's a little like when people dismiss Robert Plant or Jack Bruce as harmonica players. They were good enough to play harmonica in Led Zeppelin and Cream.
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