[Harp-L] Help find Western swing player

[Rick Dempster]

On Tue, 27 Sep 2022, 23:23 Slim Heilpern, <slim at xxxxx> wrote:

> Here's the thing, it's all about what you do with it.
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> For instance, accordion was prominent in the Tex Williams and Spade Cooley
> western swing bands and Jeff Taylor of The Time Jumpers carries on that
> tradition beautifully (great player!). I can certainly see how a harmonica
> player could fill that stylistic slot, especially on chromatic, if one had
> the chops.
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> - Slim


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Define "western swing". Until the post war era, it wasn't even  known as
that. The term originally meant outfits like Basie, et al, from Kansas
City. How's about "Bluegrass bassoon"?
RD

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